7. ABUNDANCE OF...
Information
Tools
Opinions
People
Data
Resources
Media
More...
8. ABUNDANCE
600,000 Apps
2.5 Billion People
2 Trillion Webpages
4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute
Etc...
9. ABUNDANCE OF...
(Kids’ Version)
Games
Videos
Networks
Texts
Hangouts
(...and all sorts of other interesting stuff
they don’t have access to at school.)
12. ...A world marked by “ubiquitous computing,
ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at
unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere,
from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make
it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share,
collect, collaborate and publish.”
Michael Wesch
13.
14.
15. What do our kids need to know and be able to do?
16.
17. “We don’t know one-millionth of
one percent about anything.”
Thomas Edison
19. ABUNDANCE
Is changing:
How we define an education.
How we get an education.
Where we get an education.
When we get an education.
From whom we get an education.
20. “We need to move beyond the idea
that an education is something that
is provided for us, and toward the
idea that an education is something
that we create for ourselves.”
Stephen Downes
21. “There’s no competitive advantage today
in knowing more than the person next to
you. The world doesn’t care what you
know. What the world cares about is
what you can do with what you know.”
Tony Wagner
26. NINE QUALITIES
1. Learning Centered
2. Inquiry Driven
3. Authentic Work
4. Digital
5. Connected
6. Literate
7. Transparent
8. Innovative
9. Provocative
27. NINE QUALITIES
1. Bold Schools are Learning
and Learner Centered
Students and teachers direct their own learning
and connect to their passions.
28. NINE QUALITIES
2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven
Learning is focused around exploring answers to “big questions”
29. NINE QUALITIES
3. Bold Schools Support Authentic Work
Students and teachers create real work for
real audiences and real purposes.
30. NINE QUALITIES
4. Bold Schools are Digital
Students and teachers have access to
and fluency with technology.
31. NINE QUALITIES
5. Bold Schools are Connected
Students and teachers regularly learn
from and with people online.
32. NINE QUALITIES
6. Bold Schools are Literate
(by 21st Century Standards)
Students and teachers meet NCTE guidelines
for modern readers and writers.
33. ARE YOU LITERATE?
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global communities
to meet a variety of purposes
• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of
simultaneous information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these
complex environments
bit.ly/nctelit
34. NINE QUALITIES
7. Bold Schools are Transparent
Students and teachers widely share best practices
and reflections on their learning.
35. NINE QUALITIES
8. Bold Schools are Innovative
All learners are encouraged to “poke the box”
and experiment with practice.
36. NINE QUALITIES
9. Bold Schools are Provocative
Conversations around change extend to parents, communities, and
local, state and national governments.
50. “Today, instead of teaching them information, I was
teaching them how to learn. And yet, I’m not sure
what my new role in this is. I’m not sure how to
connect to my students and their learning process
while doing this. I’m not sure how to laugh and
enjoy them. And I was not expecting the profound
sense of loss and the pain accompanying it.”
51. BOLD CHANGE
1. Understand: The contexts for change
2. Feel: Anger, grief, excitement
3. Reflect: Examine your own learning practice
52. ARE YOU LITERATE?
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global communities
to meet a variety of purposes
• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of
simultaneous information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these
complex environments
bit.ly/nctelit
53. BOLD CHANGE
1. Understand: The contexts for change
2. Feel: Anger, grief, excitement
3. Reflect: Examine your own learning practice
4. Act: Innovate, Change, Connect, ReLearn
54.
55.
56. BOLD CHANGE
1. Understand: The contexts for change
2. Feel: Anger, grief, excitement
3. Reflect: Examine your own learning practice
4. Act: Innovate, Change, Connect
5. Provoke: Engage others, Advocate
57.
58.
59. “The illiterate of the
21st Century will not be those
who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler
