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Edutopia The New World of Learning
TELLING THE STORIES O F E D U C A T I O N
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Southern Regional Education Board Educational
Technology Cooperative October 25, 2004
Milton Chen mchen_at_glef.org Executive Director

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1954 Brown v. Board 1983 A Nation at Risk 2004
Nation Still At Risk Digital Divide War
on Terror Global Competition
TELLING THE STORIES O F E D U C A T I O N
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2004 New Models New Partnerships
New Tools New Thinking New World of
Learning
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TELLING THE STORIES O F E D U C A T I O N

• As a boy, I was often bored in school.
  Occasionally I had a teacher who engaged me and
  made me curious. I wondered, why cant school
  be interesting all of the time?
• --George Lucas,
• father of 3

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GLEFs Mission Document and disseminate
stories of innovation in schools, using film,
magazines, books, and website as central archive
TELLING THE STORIES O F E D U C A T I O N
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Industrial Age School

• All Students Learn Same Thing, At Same Time, in
  Same Way
• Time is Constant, Learning Varies
• www.ed.gov/pubs/PrisonersOfTime/
• Students Listen, Teachers Talk
• Students Grouped by Age
• School is Closed to Community

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Prof. Allen Glenn, U. Washington
The biggest obstacle to school change is our
memories.
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The New Division of Labor, Frank Levy, Richard
Murnane, 2004
Half of Americans use computers at work 3
Types of Work Computers Cannot Replace 1)
Expert Thinking Identifying Solving New
Problems 2) Complex Communication Leading,
Teaching, Marketing, Negotiating 3) Physical
Work Janitorial, Food Service, Security,Driving
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Growth of Web Connectivity in Schools
1994 3 of classrooms 2003 92 of
classrooms
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Digital Age School School Life Becomes Real Life

• Students Work in Teams via Project-Based Learning
• Learning is Constant, Time Varies
• Teacher Manager of Learning Resources
• Peer Cross-Age Tutoring, Students as Teaching
  Assistants, genyes.org
• Community-Based Schools
• Technology Multimedia for Students Multiple
  Intelligences

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Value Depth Over Breadth of Learning
Howard Gardner on World History From Plato to
NATO in 30 weeks From Covering to Uncovering
the Curriculum Integrated Studies James
Burkes Connections, science/arts
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Neil Howe Bill Strauss, Millenials Rising, 2000
Millenial Generation (born in 80s and 90s)
Optimists, team players, cool to be smart,
tech-savvy, break with Gen-X
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Seymour Papert, MIT Media Lab
A technology is only a technology for those who
were born before it.
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Marc Prensky, 2001
Digital Natives Born native speakers of
computers, cell phones, video games, digital
music players, digital cameras Digital
Immigrants Printing e-mail to read it (worse
having a secretary do so)
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Quotes From Digital Natives
This laptop is part of my brain. Why would I
leave it behind in a computer lab? --WA
middle-schooler Every time I go to school, I
have to power down. --HS student
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www.edutopia.org
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Fall 2004
Edutopia Magazine A New Voice for a New World
of Learning, Launched Sept. 04
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