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Edutopia Creating 21st Century Schools
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Technology Summit Nassau BOCES, October 23, 2006
Milton Chen, Ph.D. mchen_at_glef.org Executive
Director
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The biggest obstacle to changing our schools
is our memories. -- Dr. Allen Glenn,
professor former dean, U. Washington
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Industrial Age Schools

• Industrial Age Schools
• All Students Learn Same Thing, At Same Time, in
  Same Way
• www.ed.gov/pubs/PrisonersOfTime
• Students Listen, Teachers Talk
• Lecture is Dominant Instructional Mode
• School Closed to Community

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• Digital Age Schools
• Students Work in Teams via Project-Based
  Learning
• Learning is Constant, Time Varies
• Mott Fdn Task Force on Time, Learning,
  Afterschool
• Instructor Manager of Learning Resources,
  Designer of Learning Experiences
• Student as Team Member, Peer Tutors, Teaching
  Assts., genyes.org
• Community School Concept
• Technology Multimedia for Students Multiple
  Intelligences

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Teaching has been an activity done behind closed
doors between moderately consenting
individuals. -- Dr. Lee Shulman, Carnegie Fdn
for Advancement of Teaching
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• Students can learn present-day subject matter in
  a third or less of the present time, pleasurably
  rather than painfully Education, at best, is
  ecstatic.
• --George Leonard
• Education Ecstasy

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• A technology is only a technology for those who
  were born before it.
• --Dr. Seymour Papert, MIT

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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants marcprensky.
com This laptop is part of my brain. --WA
middle-schooler Dad, do we have a
typewriter? --HS student I can spell my
name --David, 4
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• 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 (edutopia.org) as
central archive
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www.edutopia.org
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Fall 2004
Edutopia Magazine
A New Free Magazine About New World of
Learning 8 issues/yr. Circulation 100,000
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• GLEF Agenda 10 Big Ideas
• 1. Project-Based Learning
• 2. Integrated Studies
• 3. Cooperative Learning
• 4. Comprehensive Assessment
• 5. Teacher as Intellectual and Emotional Guide

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• GLEF Agenda 10 Big Ideas
• 6. Teaching Apprenticeship
• 7. Technology Connections
• 8. Reorganizing Resources
• 9. Involving Parents
• 10. Community Partnerships

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www.21stcenturyskills.org
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Arts as Communication
Arts Across the Curriculum Arts as
Communication (Visual, Music, Film, Multimedia,
Print Digital Arts) Sir Ken Robinson Take
a Chance, Let Them Dance!, 10/06 Edutopia
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Math, Science, Technology
Science/Tech/Math

Rising Above The Gathering Storm National
Academy of Sciences, 2006 We are worried about
the future prosperity of the US. We fear the
abruptness with which a lead in science and
technology can be lost. Post-Sputnik, 50 years
later
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Math, Science Technology

• Fewer than 1/3rd of US 4th 8th-graders math
  proficient
• US 12th-graders below average among 21 nations
• 2004 engineering grads
• US 70k, India 200k, China 500k
• 4. For cost of 1 US chemist or engineer, China
  hires 5, India 11

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International Education
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman The World of
Learning is Flat Learning Goes Internet-ional
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International Education
Integrated studies global languages, cultures,
history, politics, science Web-based
conferencing New audio tools for language
learning Screen becomes A Window on the
World
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www.internationaled.org
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International Education Week, Nov. 13-17, 2006
States Institute on International Education,
DC Goldman Sachs Fdn Prizes For Excellence in
IE www.internationaled.org mywonderfulworld.or
g, Nat. Geographic) www.edutopia.org/global
World Class Education DVD/Guide Kit (Asia
Society GLEF)
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