The 21st Century, Knowledge Age School

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The 21st Century, Knowledge Age School

• Our Future

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The 21st Century, Knowledge Age School

• Our present school system will not provide the
  knowledge or skills our citizens will need for
  the 21st Century.
• We need a pilot 21st Century Knowledge Age
  School.
• Now.

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The 21st Century, Knowledge Age (KA) School

• Why?
• The Educational Reasons
• one third of Ontarios elementary students fail
  to meet the provincial standards of literacy and
  numeracy
• one quarter of high school students drop out
  before graduation a further one quarter of the
  students are arguably undereducated.
• one third of the Toronto students have no
  academic help outside the classroom.

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The 21st Century, Knowledge Age School

• Why?
• The Economic Reasons
• Manufacturing and Web 1.0 technology (20 of
  wealth base and diminishing) has moved to Mexico,
  China and India.
• Natural resources (10 of wealth base) are
  depleting and are more costly to harvest in a
  Green era, but will help in the short term.
• Service sector (70 of wealth base) is the
  potential remaining source for new long term
  wealth generation. Different skills and knowledge
  are required to build wealth in this sector.
• The old era is over
• Shift Happens

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The 21st Century, Knowledge Age School

• Does that mean were lost? No.
• Fareed Zakaria
• Because we have
• The foundation, funding and tradition of
  universal, compulsory, public education
• A diverse, multi-cultural and very ambitious
  population with major links to most other nations
• An economy that can support the transformation
  better than in most other countries
• No other country, except for the USA, is ahead
  of us so far.

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The 21st Century, Knowledge Age School

What are these skills for the 21st Century?
Why cant schools just adapt to them?
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• The 21st Century skills
• Ken Kay
• Mastery of core skills and content
• Team work, partnerships and collaboration
• Critical thinking and analytical skills
• Problem solving skills
• Creative and innovative approaches
• Superior personal and technical communication
  skills
• Flexible organization skills
• Personal management skills
• Comfortably operating in a Web 2.0, 3.0 and
  future electronic environments
• Global awareness and understanding
• Its not about laptops. It's about
  shouldertops.

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The 21st Century, Knowledge Age School

• Why cant the schools just change to meet the new
  needs?
• Because teachers are mandated first and foremost
  to deliver subjects to classes of students
  and only incidentally to build learning, solving
  and co-operative skills even among themselves.
• Because content is the master, not the
  servant.
• Because most of the requisite 21st Century
  skills and technology are inconsequential in
  schools.

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• Inconsequential?
• Key 21st Century skills that are presently
  incidental or not commonly counted for marks
• Collaboration/ teamwork/partnerships
• Most Web 2.0 programs and devices
• Team self-directed program organization
• Group problem solving for marks
• Schedule outside of timetabled subject classes
• Innovative/creative thinking
• Skills in Web 2.0 world
• Global awareness and understanding
• Learning is still a personal contract between
  individual teachers and students, K to 25.

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• But there are all sorts of reformed, alternative
  schools and/or programs
• Arts
• Athletics
• GBLT diverse gender identity
• Sleep deprived
• Optional attendance
• Single sex
• Africentric
• Individually timetabled
• Distance
• These are socially reconfigured schools, not
  educationally reformed.
• Educational reform is creating a new system, no
  matter what the social configuration.

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• That being the case, whats next?
• Putting the pieces together

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• Key 21st Century elements involved in creating
  the KA School
• Curriculum/program (Results that Matter)
• Organization (The Economist, January 21, 2006)
• Facilities (The Language of School Design)
• Prakash
  Nair
• Form follows function

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• Curriculum/Program From classroom to directed
  learning -
• Team based
• Problem solving design
• Key skills and content covered
• Organized around a growing understanding of
  community
• Schools organized in divisions by ages of
  students Up to 7 years old 8 and 9 10 and 11
  Middle I, 12 and 13 Middle II, 14 and 15 and
  Senior, 16 and 17.

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• The Learning Organization
• Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
• Teacher created/directed curriculum/program
  designed to a mandate from the Board
• Vision Prosperity in the Knowledge Age
• Mission Create an organizational model that
  reflects and realizes the vision
• Goals 90 of the students to graduate from
  school and 70 prepared to follow further
  education
• Values No harm, inclusive, accountable
• Implementation Community exploration frame,
  deepening over the years to grow into global
  partners.

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• Facilities
• From cells and bells to community learning
  centre.
• To accommodate at least 15 learning modalities
• Independent study
• Peer tutoring
• Team collaboration
• Teacher one-on-one
• Lectures
• Projects
• Web 2.0 technology based
• Distance learning
• Individual/team exhibition/performance driven
• Problem-based team learning
• Community service-oriented
• Green and geothermal
• Collaborative and partnership-based
• Centred on the Personal Learning Profile
• Active, constructivist learning
• With acknowledgements to Piaget, Gardner and
  Nair et al.

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• Facilities
• From this

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• To this

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• Supported
• by this

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• In Green
• From this

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• To this

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• And
• over the
• longer term
• to this

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• And Now to Action
• Realizing the 21st Century Knowledge Age School
• The Pilot

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The 21st Century, Knowledge Age School

• The Action Plan

Steering Team
Vision Mission Goals Values
COO/Manager CFO Design/architect Organization
facilitator Curriculum facilitator Tech
facilitator
Management Team
Operations Team
Teachers Working with Management team
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Cost Ranges for the Pilot Project
Item Low High
Steering team 100,000 200,000
Management team 450,000 600,000
Educators team 1,250,000 2,500,000
Facilities 2,000,000 3,000,000
Green/ Geothermal 500,000 500,000
Web 2.0/Eqpmt 500,000 500,000
Totals 4,800,000 7,300,000
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• And the Payback is -

Item Value/cost Payback
Trained Core Team of 35 educators 2,500,000 Seminal investment
Green/geothermal 500,000 3 years payback
21stC KA School 5 million to 7 million. Leading schools good for community prosperity
Annual budget 6,000,000 With out-of-country paid enrolment 3,000,000 p.a.
Marketing to global market Whole new industry for job growth in the new economy. 1,000s of export jobs.
Nil Attract new students more income
Nil Annual 20,000 dropouts mean 280,000,000 potential income gain
One saved student 760,000 lifetime earnings welfare, health care, detention savings
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The 21st Century, Knowledge Age School

• Where do we find the investment?
• Public/private partnership
• Government (Ministry and School Board) (One half
  of funds)
• The facility
• The normal per pupil operating budget
• Share educational preparation
• Steering/management set-up
• Public subscription (One quarter of funds)
• Foundations, Corporations and Chambers of
  Commerce
• Share educational preparation
• Share renovations
• Corporate providers (ground floor of huge new
  industry) (One quarter of funds)
• Green/geothermal
• Web 2.0 systems and equipment
• Share renovations

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• Call to action
• What more do we need to know before we act?
• Nothing
• What have we to gain by creating the pilot 21st
  Century, K A School
• Everything

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