Keynote for The Milwaukee Digital Media Conference

1. How to Avoid
Extinction
in a Changing World
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3. Are we in danger of
extinction?
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4. Leading Causes of Extinction
• Information overload
• Technology has changed time and
space where learning can occur
• Globalization
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5. Leading Causes of Extinction
• Information overload
• Technology has changed time and
space where learning can occur
• Globalization
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6. Information Overload
By 2010, the amount
Information
of technical
information in the
Overload
world it is expected
to double every 72
hours!
By 2010, the amount of
technical information in the
world will double every 72
hours
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7. Surviving Information Overload
In the past To Survive
Dynamic knowledge requires
Only experts create knowledge individual meaning making based
upon multiple sources of information
Teachers deliver knowledge in the The role of educators is to facilitate
form of information the making of dynamic knowledge
Children are graded on how much of Dynamic knowledge is revealed
the information they have stored through real world performance
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8. Leading Causes of Extinction
• Information overload
• Technology has changed time and
space where learning can occur
• Globalization
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9. Means, B., Toyama, Y.,
Murphy, R., Bakia, M.,
& Jones, K. (2009).
Evaluation of Evidence-
Based Practices in
Online Learning: A
Meta-Analysis and
Review of Online
Learning Studies. U.S.
Department of
Education.
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10. • The New Media
Consortium. (2009).
2009-Horizon-Report-
K12.pdf
(application/pdf
Object). Retrieved June
7, 2009, from
http://www.nmc.org/pdf
/2009-Horizon-Report-
K12.pdf.
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11. Leading Causes of Extinction
• Information overload
• Technology has changed time and
space where learning can occur
• Globalization
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12. • Growing foreign
challenges
• A new world of
challenges and
competition
• Rising tide of
mediocrity
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, 2007.
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16. Conceptual
Age
Information
Age
Industrial Age
Agriculture
Age
18th Century 19th Century 20th Century 21st Century
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17. Tough Choices for Tough
Times: The Report of
the New Commission
on The Skills of the
American Workforce.
(2007). National Center
on Education and the
Economy.
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18. Six Senses for the
Conceptual Age
• #1 Design
• #2 Story
• #3 Symphony
• #4 Empathy
• #5 Play
• #6 Meaning
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19. References
Business Week. (2005, March 28). The Immelt Revolution. Retrieved July 19, 2009, from
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_13/b3926088_mz056.htm.
Conceptual economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). . Retrieved July 19, 2009, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_economy.
Friedman, T. (2005). The World is Flat. New York: Straus.
Information Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). . Retrieved July 19, 2009, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Age.
Means, B., Toyama, Y., Murphy, R., Bakia, M., & Jones, K. (2009). Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in
Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies. U.S. Department of Education.
More than 800 wildlife species now extinct | Science | Reuters. (2009, July 1). . Retrieved July 19, 2009, from
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56100F20090702?feedType=RSS&pageNumber=1&virtualB
randChannel=0.
The New Media Consortium. (2009). 2009-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf (application/pdf Object). Retrieved June 7,
2009, from http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf.
Pink, D. (2006). A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers will Rule the Future. Riverhead Books.
Renate, N. C., & Caine, G. (1997). Understanding Why Education Must Change. Retrieved July 19, 2009, from
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Tough Choices for Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on The Skills of the American Workforce.
(2007). . National Center on Education and the Economy. Retrieved July 19, 2009, from
http://www.skillscommission.org/pdf/exec_sum/ToughChoices_EXECSUM.pdf.
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20. References Cont.
Wagner, T. (2008). The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival
Skills Our Children Need--And What We Can Do About It. Basic Books. Retrieved July 19, 2009, from
http://www.amazon.com/Global-Achievement-Gap-Survival-Need/dp/0465002293.
Wesch, M. (2007, October 12). YouTube - A Vision of Students Today. Retrieved July 19, 2009, from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o.
YouTube - Did You Know 2.0. (n.d.). . Retrieved July 19, 2009, from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U.
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