11. Open the
Windows...
Open the doors...
Tear down the
walls...
Global Citizens
Global Economy
Global Workforce
Unkown/Unimagined Jobs
21st Century Skills
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12. Urgency...
The 21st Century is already here...
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20. For the Future...
For the NOW...
Connect the “Learning Organization” to
Life outside the classroom.
• Purposeful
• Authentic
• Contributions
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21. Walls of the School
“Outside vs Inside” and “Now vs Later”
22. A L L
W
# 1
Walls of the School
“Outside vs Inside” and “Now vs Later”
23. What is it that we want our
students to become?
36. “We look at the present through a
rear-view mirror. We march
backwards into the future.”
—Marshal McLuhan
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37.
38.
39.
40. Not just for the future... but now
Cultural/Societal Shifts are all around us... In the classroom?
41. g is
r itin .
h e w a ll ..
T e w
o n th
Not just for the future... but now
Cultural/Societal Shifts are all around us... In the classroom?
56. • More than Customization
• Designing for Prosumption
• Losing Control
• Becoming a Peer
• Sharing the Fruits
57. • More than Customization •Differentiating
• Designing for Prosumption Making lessons
reconfigurable/editable and
allow for collaboration
• Losing Control
• Becoming a Peer
• Sharing the Fruits
58. • More than Customization •Differentiating
• Designing for Prosumption Making lessons
reconfigurable/editable and
allow for collaboration
• Losing Control •How Do You Want to
Learn?
• Becoming a Peer
• Sharing the Fruits
59. • More than Customization •Differentiating
• Designing for Prosumption Making lessons
reconfigurable/editable and
allow for collaboration
• Losing Control •How Do You Want to
Learn?
•Who should be doing
• Becoming a Peer
the creating? The
work?
• Sharing the Fruits
60. • More than Customization •Differentiating
• Designing for Prosumption Making lessons
reconfigurable/editable and
allow for collaboration
• Losing Control •How Do You Want to
Learn?
•Who should be doing
• Becoming a Peer
the creating? The
work?
•Students really own the
• Sharing the Fruits work/outcomes
Longevity... Not in Isolation
65. Individualized
Learning Plans
“The question now facing
schools is this: Can the system
of schooling design to process
groups of students in
standardized ways in a
monolithic instructional mode
be adapted to handle
differences in the way
individual brains are wired
for learning?”
Christensen, et. al
66. Individualized
Learning Plans
✤ Differentiation
✤ Customization
✤ “All students have Special
Learning Needs”
✤ All teachers are trapped by
their own learning strengths
71. A L L
W
# 4
Walls that aren’t even Real
The “Can’t” Walls
72. I think things are moving
way too slowly. We've
been talking about all this
for so long. Why am I still
seeing traditional schools
stuck in traditional
practices, slipping further
and farther away from the
realities and advances
happening elsewhere
outside the school
building?
74. Expectation
✤ "The main thing is the way
society puts younger people in a
box and nobody expects much of
them. I am struck by how much
people my age can actually
achieve if only they could think
beyond football and high school
and what they are told is
possible... This just shows they
can do a lot more with some
strong ambition and desire. My
[advice] is to get out there and
do your thing with all you got."
Zac Sunderland
77. Yes we can...
• Kristallnacht
• US Holocaust
Museum
• Land of Lincoln
• NOAA Weather
• Sistine Chapel
• Paris 1900
• Museum of
Philosophy
• Stomach Museum
• Dive World
• Smithsonian Latino
Museum
• The Globe Theatre
• Renaissance Island
78.
79. The Future... it’s already here...
“[Our goal is to] shift the focus
of the conversation about the
digital divide from questions of
technological access to those of
opportunities to participate and
to develop the cultural
competencies and social skills
needed for full involvement.”
—Henry Jenkins
80. Let’s Review!
1. Walls of the School =
Make Learning Purposeful and Authentic (like RL)
2. Walls of the Classroom =
Allow for collaboration and participatory culture
3. Walls of the Teacher =
Change to facillitator to support
Individual Learning Plans
4. Walls of the “Imaginary” =
Rattle the Cage... We want Tomorrow, TODAY!
My name is Bob Sprankle... and I haven’t been sleeping well...
I don’t come here in isolation...
PLN
knowledge and thoughts of thousands...
Going to invite U2
learning not in isolation
Wiki
Wiki
What do we do to get our classrooms out of the 20th century?
Been talking about it for a while>>>How do we prepare our students for an unknown future.
CONCEPT of school has to change.
Love the name
want toBELONG TO
suggests that there can be many dif. types to belong to
Singing to the choir
no longer have a choice to "close our doors" to our classrooms.
OPEN UP TO prepare our students FUTURES
I Used to call this...
How many feel an urgency?
That for our students sake... we have to get to this place soon... this transformation/change?
too much Torchwood?
JACK KNOWS
●2005
●Double Entendre play on “computer term”
●didn't want to “freak” anyone out...
●meet folks at their level...
●together, we'll get there
●little piece at a time
Not urgent enough
or BYTE BY BYTE to include the cute computer reference
Or... I don’t know... Maybe I need something a bit more urgent...
Not urgent enough
or BYTE BY BYTE to include the cute computer reference
Or... I don’t know... Maybe I need something a bit more urgent...
Not urgent enough
or BYTE BY BYTE to include the cute computer reference
Or... I don’t know... Maybe I need something a bit more urgent...
Not urgent enough
or BYTE BY BYTE to include the cute computer reference
Or... I don’t know... Maybe I need something a bit more urgent...
Not just about preparing students for Future anymore...
PUT OFF LIKE GLOBAL WARMING
if we don't NOW... let in the 21st Century, then we're also failing our students right now in the present. NOT JUST THEIR FUTURES
If we keep doing things in isolation --20th Century Way/Doors Closed-- and don't allow students to make PURPOSEFUL and AUTHENTIC CONTIBUTIONS
then ILLUSION:
FINITE, ARTIFICIAL, ISOLATED, TEMPORARY
perhaps meaningless.
BECAUSE... no connection to REAL LIFE/OUTS
Do we want our students ENGAGED, MOTIVATED, CONNECTED to the rest of the world (in ways never before possible)...
put all that away when they enter the doors to our classroom?
SO... we've got to tear down some walls.I've broken it down into 4 WALLS... to get out of the box we're in
●focus on “Outside vs Inside” and “Now vs Later”
First off, before we do any knocking down, I want to ask a question...
●When I think of my students... my daughter...
●If we want them to become that, why not make it happen right now...
●Have them contribute to society NOW:
●CREATORS OF MEANINGFUL AND AUTHENTIC WORK NOW
●Have them take LEADERSHIP ROLES NOW
●To the extreme, you can just remove the school altogether
>>Want to teach students about science, turn them into REAL LIFE SCIENTIST... get them out Doing Real Meaningful work
● “Expedition to the Pantanal”
●Doing work for scientists:
●To study resources and population for pecaries and their impact on the biodiversity of the region.
I want my daughter on that trip!
●Not all our students are going to have that opportunity to go out...
●But we can have things COME IN
We live in a dif. time than when most of us we’re in school.
●We we’re the TV generation....
●Passivity... watching
●Perfect for ... or perhaps reinforcing a traditional classroom setting... a “sit and git”
●Teacher disseminating wisdom
●We live in a new time...
●A huge cultural shift has happened
●MUST READ
Jenkins calls for these skills to be included in our classrooms, in our learning organizations
We have the tools for our students to collaborate like never before.
●Is the SHIFT BECAUSE of the tools, or
●are the Tools are a byproduct of some global evolutionary change?
●Regardless... we live in a time where we have the tools that
●allow the classroom to mirror the rest of Student's Reality > PROSUMER SOCIETY/PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
●Moved from TV/Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 world
●Tools will also allow students take control of their own Learning AND even Assessment...
●Shameless Promotion: Tomorrow: VoiceThread as living portfolio.
●It’s more than just technology
●it’s a cultural shift
●Mcluhan: Most of us don’t see the nature of the new technologies during its innovation...
Don’t recognize the technology which is responsible for the shift.
●we are always one step behind...
●“Clinging to the “rear-view mirror view of their world”
●Instead of "looking ahead" society tends to cling to the past.
Maybe these days, we see it when Oprah gets her hands on it...
●Is the “tipping point” coming faster these days?
●Is that “rear-view” understanding of our media having less of a shelf-life?
Oprah= 2million followers
she follows 14
Maybe this shows that Oprah is still rear view
Maybe these days, we see it when Oprah gets her hands on it...
●Is the “tipping point” coming faster these days?
●Is that “rear-view” understanding of our media having less of a shelf-life?
Oprah= 2million followers
she follows 14
Maybe this shows that Oprah is still rear view
●I think it is
●Clearly, we see things transforming --- almost OVERNIGHT, don’t we?
>>>>>But is it staying at the same slow “rear-view pace in our classrooms?
Let’s look at some of the “writing on the wall”
Regular folk
capturing, archiving, writing, commenting, telling the story... like never before.
●FOLKSONOMY... tagging this content... we are all of us writing history.
●created by US... not by the few:
historians
media
People don’t watch... they come together to talk about it, to archive it; comment on it... be a part of it.
●Moonwalker... makes us think of the moon walk
●40th anniv.
●Me= 7yrs old
●Remember... father...
●BORING... why?
I had no connection... nobody even talked to me about this.
On TV, it was something OUT THERE... had nothing to do with me.
I could watch it, but I couldn’t participate.
In order to understand the difference in a Passive culture and a PARTICIPATORY CULTURE...
IMAGINE IF THE MOON WALK HAPPENED NOW
WE WOULDN’T JUST WATCH IT... we’d be a part of it... definitely helping to tell the story, but perhaps even SHAPING THE STORY, as we’ll see with the next Wall I’ll talk about.
●Changing what the classroom has traditionally been
●Tappscott & Williams
●“Democratizing the Media”
●and WORK WILL CHANGE... move to collaboration, and thePROSUMER> be a part of the creationSmart companies are seeing this
●Example of Entertainment Company
●Control vs Inviting them in
●Why shouldn't they listen to their clients: “This is how we want it”
SAME for classrooms? If we live in a participatory culture?
Rather than... you will digest it the way I SAY
●Chapter on things businesses can do to HARNESS/invite in the prosumer... translation for the classroom
1. Reconfigurable for EACH STUDENT
2. Customers will change the use of the tool... How do you want this media> how do you want to learn this? OR WILL THEY GO ELSEWHERE? OTHER OPTIONS right now for this conferenceWill need flexible curriculum
3.Become peer> Business should create an “innovation ecosystem” rather than being concerned about controlling the product• Amazon example... Others plugging in to the environment set up to do their own business
Teacher> role of facilitator... setting up the environment for the students... BUT... who should be doing the creating/the work?
4. With that... sharing the fruit... business giving rights/ or kickback to the prosumers...The “give back” for the students is that we need to provideways for the to really ownthe work/outcomesLongevity... Perhaps across grades
Not in IsolationARCHIVING WORK
>>>providing opportunities for AUTHENTIC/MEANINGFUL WORK that the students want archive.
SAME for classrooms? If we live in a participatory culture?
Rather than... you will digest it the way I SAY
●Chapter on things businesses can do to HARNESS/invite in the prosumer... translation for the classroom
1. Reconfigurable for EACH STUDENT
2. Customers will change the use of the tool... How do you want this media> how do you want to learn this? OR WILL THEY GO ELSEWHERE? OTHER OPTIONS right now for this conferenceWill need flexible curriculum
3.Become peer> Business should create an “innovation ecosystem” rather than being concerned about controlling the product• Amazon example... Others plugging in to the environment set up to do their own business
Teacher> role of facilitator... setting up the environment for the students... BUT... who should be doing the creating/the work?
4. With that... sharing the fruit... business giving rights/ or kickback to the prosumers...The “give back” for the students is that we need to provideways for the to really ownthe work/outcomesLongevity... Perhaps across grades
Not in IsolationARCHIVING WORK
>>>providing opportunities for AUTHENTIC/MEANINGFUL WORK that the students want archive.
SAME for classrooms? If we live in a participatory culture?
Rather than... you will digest it the way I SAY
●Chapter on things businesses can do to HARNESS/invite in the prosumer... translation for the classroom
1. Reconfigurable for EACH STUDENT
2. Customers will change the use of the tool... How do you want this media> how do you want to learn this? OR WILL THEY GO ELSEWHERE? OTHER OPTIONS right now for this conferenceWill need flexible curriculum
3.Become peer> Business should create an “innovation ecosystem” rather than being concerned about controlling the product• Amazon example... Others plugging in to the environment set up to do their own business
Teacher> role of facilitator... setting up the environment for the students... BUT... who should be doing the creating/the work?
4. With that... sharing the fruit... business giving rights/ or kickback to the prosumers...The “give back” for the students is that we need to provideways for the to really ownthe work/outcomesLongevity... Perhaps across grades
Not in IsolationARCHIVING WORK
>>>providing opportunities for AUTHENTIC/MEANINGFUL WORK that the students want archive.
SAME for classrooms? If we live in a participatory culture?
Rather than... you will digest it the way I SAY
●Chapter on things businesses can do to HARNESS/invite in the prosumer... translation for the classroom
1. Reconfigurable for EACH STUDENT
2. Customers will change the use of the tool... How do you want this media> how do you want to learn this? OR WILL THEY GO ELSEWHERE? OTHER OPTIONS right now for this conferenceWill need flexible curriculum
3.Become peer> Business should create an “innovation ecosystem” rather than being concerned about controlling the product• Amazon example... Others plugging in to the environment set up to do their own business
Teacher> role of facilitator... setting up the environment for the students... BUT... who should be doing the creating/the work?
4. With that... sharing the fruit... business giving rights/ or kickback to the prosumers...The “give back” for the students is that we need to provideways for the to really ownthe work/outcomesLongevity... Perhaps across grades
Not in IsolationARCHIVING WORK
>>>providing opportunities for AUTHENTIC/MEANINGFUL WORK that the students want archive.
●First step is admitting that you have a problem.
●My job needs to be:
a facilitator helping you find your path through the knowledge
supporting you with resources,
modeling what it means to be a learner,
explicitly teaching 21st Cent skills:
●like how to gather information,
●how to access its worth,
●how to organize it,
●how to express ideas compellingly,
• how to use information and how to use it ethically...
How to change the paradigm? Losing control...
●the minute you bring in Blog, Podcast, Digital Storytelling, etc., you’re giving up some control as the teacher... it forces you to do this.
THAT’S WHAT TECH is all about to me=
AFFORDS US THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THE PARADIGM
>>most teachers say not comfortable... excellent!
●We know we need to differentiate; we know about the dif. learning modalities, yet we put everyone through the same process.
●Interesting findings... teacher's trapped...
●Christensen says because of a bunch of factors... this will happen:
○retirement
○economics
○advancement in software
1.People want to create.
2.People want their work to have purpose.
3.They want to own their learning.
Here's what it looked like with Podcasting in my class
●Students deciding direction
●Students working together
●Students connecting with other learners and teachers globally
●Learning more than one teacher could give____________
I go into this more in past presentations, but in short,
●writing and literacy improved and transformed in ways never seen before.
●The students couldn’t wait to get to school to work on their show... They said it no longer felt like school...
And it wasn’t... it was their job.
Scratch
●Great way to get out of the TEACHER as In-Charge (can’t anticipate)
●Algebraic Reasoning (Greg Tang: applying knowledge generally... in unknown, new situations)
I’ll provide link to my reflection
●Viral Learning
The CAN’T wall
NOT JUST URGENCY >>> FRUSTRATION
START WITH WHY IT SHOULD HAPPEN, NOT WHY IT CAN’T
●Have to open up the networks... we can't just always approach with "that can't happen".
●Yes, >>many things that need to be considered (beyond this presentation)
... SAFETY above all...
>>we know safety!
Frustration with waiting for TOMORROW... when it's already here today.
Expectations need to change
We all need to expect more...
—parents and students will... or go elsewhere●we have to look beyond our previous experiences...
○for instance... we still see cellphones (which are usually banned) as something different than the computers we allow
THIS IS THAT REAR VIEW MIRROR cling...
>HOT WATER EXPECTATION
>Audio for this conf (hard to get out of mindset)
Time to start “rattling the cages” demanding ... and to let us in...
Frustration is also felt by the students...
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
• We go on field trips because it’s REAL
“Tell me again... why can’t I go in there?”
●Why can’t I use my cellphone/computer in school?
●Why can’t I use my laptop in my college class?
●Why do I have to put away all the tools I use outside when I come inside the school?
●
Teachers are always trying to “duct-tape” solutions... trying to find ways around the “barriers”
Let's face it... it's easier to just let it go... not fight for it, not try to fix the holes...
RATTLE THE CAGES! LET US IN!
Jenkins talks about the Digital Divide that really exists:
not between Have/Not have
but between having guidance and not having guidance.
Can’t just leave out these tools, and expect students to know how to use them later on...
HAVE TO BE WITH THEM... NOW
For:
ENGAGMENT NOW
INSTRUCTION NOW
PREPARED NOW.
NOT JUST FOR THE FUTURE
Could have done this whole thing in 2 min
In a couple of Twitter Posts
The paradigm of the presentation needs to change as well
It feels a little wrong to say all this and then... be up here
Really, this isn’t a presentation... that’s finite... “Now We’re Done”Hopefully it’s more of a preview... like a movie trailer... then we all go out and make the movies
I look forward to seeing your movies.