Learning and Innovation

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Learning and Innovation

• Erika Volker
• erikavolker_at_hotmail.com

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Global Competition

• Wheres China
• Worlds View of American Youth
• One Laptop Per Child Program http//laptop.org/en
  /index.shtml
• Russia waged Cyber-War Summer 2007

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Global Facts

• Today, the United States is the second largest
  Spanish speaking country in the world
• By 2010 India will be the largest English
  speaking country in the world

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Influence of Asia
United States India China
Population 303,240,166 1,130,000,000 1322,000,000
Top 5 15,162,008 56,500,000 66,1000,00
Annual Births 4,264,000 25,637,000 17,779,000
Source www.census.gov
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Important Facts?

• Pluto is a planet
• Margarine vs. butter
• Population

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It is possible to store the mind with a million
facts and still be entirely uneducated.

• Alec Bourne

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Jobs Pyramid
United States


Developing Nations
Intellectual Property Erika Volker
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Blooms Taxonomy
Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
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Jobs Pyramid
Blooms Taxonomy
United States
Developing Nations
Intellectual Property Erika Volker
Intellectual Property Erika Volker
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Data from PISA

• Assessment administered to 15 year olds
• 90 of countries in world participate
• Data sourced from Science Assessment
• 2 hour test
• Open Ended
• HOTS
• Those things easy to test are easy to digitize
  and outsource.

Programme for International Student Assessment
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Data from PISA

• Family socio-economic status vs. schools
  reinforcement
• Those in lower socio-economic classes tend to be
  grouped into such and receive lower level
  training throughout their life
• U.S. second generation immigrant students do NOT
  perform better than the 1st generation students

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Key Contributors to Student Success

• High ambition
• Strong support systems
• Devolved responsibility, the school is the center
  of activity
• Accountability and intervention
• Post data publicly
• Autonomy and Competition
• Integrated Educational Opportunities
• National Standards

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The New 3 Rs

• Rigor All students are challenged with a
  curriculum that prepares them to continue
  learning throughout life.
• Relevance All students have courses and
  projects that clearly relate to their lives and
  their goals.
• Relationships All students collaborate with
  their peers and have a number of adults who know
  them and push them to achieve.

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Learning in an online environment
Environments. e-mail, WebCT, Blogs, Wikis,
discussion forums, gaming, shopping Strategies.
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL),
WebQuests, Webliography, Problem-based
Learning Activities. Practice, inquiry,
observation, debate, simulations, virtual
reality Assessments. Digital papers, Power
Point presentations, Web Pages, video
productions, Communities of Practice
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Examples of Innovation
www.bigpicture.org
www.thecasefiles.org
www.moodle.com
www.projectfoundry.org
National Career Academy Coalition
www.edutopia.org
www.ncacinc.org
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my
education.

• Mark Twain

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Preguntas?

• Erika Volker
• erikavolker_at_hotmail.com