Learning in the 21st Century

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Learning in the 21st Century

• Worthington Schools
• Creating Tomorrow for ALL Students
• 2008-2009

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• Background to the Past
• Background to the Future
• Background to the 21st Century Movement
• Profile of a 21st Century Learner
• Vision for 21st Century Learning
• Worthington Response to 21st Century Learning

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STUCK ON AN ELEVATOR
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• BACKGROUND TO THE PAST

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• We always overestimate the change that will
  occur in the next two years and underestimate the
  change that will occur in the next ten.
• Bill Gates, Business at The Speed of Thought
• (Viking, 1999)

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• WE WERE REALLY GOOD AT PREPARING STUDENTS FOR . .
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ITS NOT ON THE TEST!
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• BACKGROUND TO THE FUTURE

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• WILL WE BE GOOD AT PREPARING STUDENTS FOR . . .

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Conclusions

• Society is changing
• The skills and knowledge required for work and
  civic life in the 21st century are shifting
• Educational systems need to adapt to meet the
  needs of the digital natives in the 21st century

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• A CHANGE A SYSTEMIC SHIFT
• IS NEEDED.

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• BACKGROUND TO THE
• 21ST CENTURY MOVEMENT

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Societal Changes

• Globalization
• Transformative technologies
• Shifting demographics
• Changing values and attitudes

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Work and Civic Skills

• Released October 2, 2006, by the Conference
  Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families,
  Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the
  Society for Human Resource Management groups.

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21st Century Skills

• What skills are most important for job success
  when hiring a high school graduate?

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21st Century Skills

• Of the high school students that you recently
  hired, what were their deficiencies?

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21st Century Skills

• What applied skills and basic knowledge are most
  important for those you hire with a four-year
  college degree?

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21st Century Skills

• What skills and content areas will be growing in
  importance in the next five years?

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Implications for Public Education

• Around what enduring understandings, essential
  questions, and standards should our programs be
  built to better prepare our students for their
  future?

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Implications for Public Education

• This is a story about the big public
  conversation the nation is not having about
  education . . . whether an entire generation of
  kids will fail to make the grade in the global
  economy, because they cant think their way
  through abstract problems, work in teams,
  distinguish good information from bad, or speak a
  language other than English.

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• PROFILE OF A 21ST CENTURY LEARNER

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Digital Natives

• What is the learning profile of 21st Century
  students?

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• Students 1 request regarding technology use at
  their schools
• Relax school rules about e-mail, IM, cell phone,
  and on-line use
• Favorite communications device (K-12)
• Cell phone (73 in grades 9-12 use a cell phone
  daily)
• Percentage of middle school students that have
  on-line friends from other schools, states, or
  countries
• 54

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• Digital natives . . .
• Are used to receiving information really fast
• Like to parallel process and multi-task
• Prefer graphics before their text
• Prefer random access (like hypertext)
• Function best when networked
• Thrive on instant gratification and frequent
  rewards
• Prefer games to serious work

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What Are They Missing?

• Critical thinking
• Reflection
• Evaluation

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What Are They Missing?
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20th CENTURY EDUCATIONVS.21st CENTURY EDUCATION
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Learning for a Creative Age

• Society
• Complex
• Unpredictable
• Network based
• Changing rapidly
• Horizontally integrated
• Open
• Information rich
• Out of control

• Learning Institutions
• Hierarchical
• Standardized
• Information Sparse
• Vertically integrated
• Based on knowledge transmission
• Centralized control
• Custodial

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Yesterday and TodayWhere Weve Been and Where
We Are GoingCurriculum

• What is taught
• Chapters covered and workbooks completed
• Academic context
• Textbook as resource
• Individual subjects
• Basics emphasized for all thinking skills
  emphasized for gifted

• What is learned
• Identification of what student should know and be
  able to do
• Life context
• Multiple resources
• Integrated subjects
• Basics and thinking skills emphasized for all

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Yesterday and TodayWhere Weve Been and Where
We Are GoingInstruction

• Teacher centered
• Organized around time
• Single teaching strategy
• Teach once
• Fixed groups
• Whole group instruction
• Passive learning

• Learner centered
• Organized for results
• Multiple teaching strategies
• Reteaching and enrichment
• Flexible groups
• Differentiated instruction
• Active learning

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Yesterday and TodayWhere Weve Been and Where
We Are GoingAssessment

• Bell curve
• One opportunity
• After Instruction
• Paper and pencil based
• Grades average
• Proving and accountability
• Focus on product

• Public and precise criteria
• Multiple opportunities
• Integrated with instruction
• Performance based
• Standard met or not met
• Diagnose and prescribe
• Focus on product and process

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Digital Society Alters the Roles and Mechanisms
of Teaching and Learning
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• VISION FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING

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• 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

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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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Vision for 21st Century Learning

• Core Subjects
• Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Science
• World Languages
• Civics and Government
• Economics
• History
• Geography

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Vision for 21st Century Learning

• 21st Century Content
• Global awareness
• Financial, economic, business, and
  entrepreneurial literacy
• Civic literacy
• Health and wellness awareness

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Vision for 21st Century Learning

• Learning and Thinking Skills
• Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Communication skills
• Creativity and innovation skills
• Collaboration skills
• Contextual learning skills
• Information and media literacy skills

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Vision for 21st Century Learning

• Information and Communications Technology
• The ability to use technology to learn content
  and skills so that they know how to learn,
  think critically, solve problems, use
  information, communicate, innovate, and
  collaborate.

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Vision for 21st Century Learning

• Life Skills
• Leadership
• Ethics
• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Personal productivity
• People skills
• Self-direction
• Social responsibility

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21st Century Standards

• Focuses on 21st century skills, content
  knowledge, and expertise
• Builds understanding across and among core
  subjects as well as 21st century
  interdisciplinary themes
• Emphasizes deep understanding rather than shallow
  knowledge
• Engages students with the real world data, tools,
  and experts they will encounter in college, on
  the job, and in life students learn best when
  actively engaged in solving meaningful problems
• Allows for multiple measures of mastery

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Technology Standards
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The Journey Ahead

• When faced with steam rolling technology, you
  either become part of the technology or part of
  the road.
• - Lueke, 1994

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NETS-S

• Creativity and Innovation
• Students demonstrate creative thinking,
  construct knowledge, and develop innovative
  products and processes using technology
• Communication and Collaboration
• Students use digital media and environments to
  communicate and work collaboratively, including
  at a distance, to support individual learning and
  contribute to the learning of others

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NETS-S

• Research and Information Fluency
• Students apply digital tools to gather,
  evaluate, and use information
• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision
  Making
• Students use critical thinking skills to plan
  and conduct research, manage projects, solve
  problems, and make informed decisions using
  appropriate digital tools and resources

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NET-S

• Digital Citizenship
• Students understand human, cultural, and
  societal issues related to technology and
  practice legal and ethical behavior
• Technology Operations and Concepts
• Students demonstrate a sound understanding of
  technology concepts, systems, and operations

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What are we learning?Whats different when
schools integrate technology?

• Communications and collaboration, 24X7 regardless
  of location
• Disintermediation new roles, new capabilities,
  new challenges
• Pervasive Computing connected content,
  connected users
• - facilitation
• - mentoring
• Performance focus rather than time focus

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• Authentic schooling
• Open accountability
• - Community awareness
• - Community involvement
• - Information-based decision-making

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• Abandon
• Four walls of the classroom
• Four walls of the school
• Existing classroom structures

• Innovate
• On-line classrooms
• On-line schools
• Redesigning learning environments to reflect
  teamwork and access to technology

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Voices Beyond the Halls of Academia

• Jennifer James (www.jenniferjames.com)
• Perspective (seeing with new eyes)
• Awareness of patterns (recognizing the future)
• Critical thinking (understanding the social
  context
• Response time (the ability to change and help
  others change)
• Context (understanding the past to know the
  future)
• Effectiveness (doing more with less)
• Diversity I.Q. (profiting from diversity)

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• Daniel Pink (www.danpink.com)
• Be able to do big-picture thinking
• Be creative
• Emphasize with others
• Tell stories and listen to others stories
• Recognize patterns
• Be intrinsically motivated

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• Thomas Friedman (www.thomasfriedman.com)
• Collaborators
• Orchestrators
• Synthesizers
• Explainers
• Leveragers
• Adapters
• Personalizers
• Math Lovers
• Localizers

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• Ten years ago, if Id had a vision theyd have
  locked me up. Now, I cant get a job without
  one.
• New York Headteacher quoted by Michael
• Barber, head of the Government's
• Standards and Effectiveness
• Unit UK, at a conference for
• new head teachers.

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• WORTHINGTON RESPONSE TO 21ST CENTURY LEARNING

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CORE

• INCREASED ENGAGMENT OF STUDENTS IN THEIR OWN
  LEARNING AND GROWTH

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21st CENTURY LEARNING

• Elementary
• K
• K-6 Renewal
• Slate Hill International Baccalaureate Program
• Granby The Basic School
• Colonial Hills STEM Program
• Behind the Glass Teacher Lab

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• Middle Schools
• The Phoenix School
• Kilbourne Middle School STEM Program
• Project Lead The Way

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• High Schools
• Linworth Alternative School
• Technological Integration for Academic Work,
  Assessment and Instruction at the Linworth
  Alternative Program
• Entrepreneurship Academy
• International Business Academy
• Worthington Supplementation Credit Recovery
  Program

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• High Schools
• Project Lead The Way
• Dual Enrollment Courses
• Teacher Academy (WKHS)
• Career Based Intervention Program (TWHS)

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NOW WHAT? 2008-2009

• Continued work with the Elementary Renewal
• Brookside Elementary School (Outdoor Enrichment
  Schoolyard Enhanced Learning) Proposal by
  December 1, 2008
• Worthington Hills Elementary School (Scheduling
  Project Based Learning Instructional Practices
  Assessment Beautification) Proposal by
  December 1, 2008
• STEM Program of Excellence at Evening Street
  E.S. and Wilson Hill E.S. being considered (Grant
  proposal by November 17, 2008)

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• Middle School Visioning Process and Plan
• Middle School International Baccalaureate Program
  Is this a possibility for the future?
• High School Visioning Process and Plan
• High School Request For Proposals (unknown at
  this time)
• High School STEM School being considered (Grant
  proposal by November 17, 2008)

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CHALLENGES FOR WORTHINGTON SCHOOLS

• Enrollment
• Staffing
• Course Offerings
• Facility Usage
• Technology
• Finances
• Impact on Student Achievement
• Prioritization and Collaboration of Issues

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The Challenge for Public Education

• We must transform all formal institutions of
  learning, from Prep through to Year 12, to ensure
  that we are preparing students for their future,
  not for our past. Schools that ignore the trends
  shaping tomorrow will cease to be relevant in the
  lives of their students and will disappear
  quickly.
• - Michael Phillips, Principal
• Ringwood Secondary School

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