The Power Of One: Changing the World of Education One Teacher At A Time

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The Power Of One Changing the World of
Education One Teacher At A
Time

• Howie DiBlasi
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• Digital Journey
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• Presentation June,2008

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If you want change ..Be The Change

• Gandhi
• Michael Angier
• Guykawasaki
• Will Richardson
• Angela Jackson
• Shri Ram Katha
• John W. Snider
• Howie DiBlasi

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Think Different.
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Think Different..Apple 1997
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Name the 17 people in the commercial

• You have 3 min.

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Schools are stuck in the 20th century. Students
have rushed into the 21st. How can schools catch
up and provide students with a relevant
education? .Marc Prensky
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-- students are mind-numbingly bored in class.
Listen up"I'm bored 99 percent of the time."
(California)"School is really, really boring."
(Virginia)"We are so bored." (Texas)"Engage us
more." (Texas)"My teachers bore me so much I
don't pay attention." (Detroit)"Pointless. I'm
engaged in two out of my seven classes."
(Florida)
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In China last year B.S.s in engineering
represented 46 of all university degrees
In America, it was 5.
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How do we prepare our students to become not
only readers and writers, but editors and
collaborators as well?
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What needs to change about our curriculum when
our students have the ability to reach audiences
far beyond our classroom walls?
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We are currently preparing students for jobs that
dont yet exist . . .
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What does the Dept. Of Commerce have to say about
education..Where does it rank ?
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Learning To Change..Changing To Learn
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8 Rules For Revolutionaries in the Classroom
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Change the classroom
My 21st Century Classroom

• Team of students
• Research team Google AltaVista Search
• Tutorial Team Jing (Create Screencasts)
• Curriculum Team Podcasts (Recordings)
• Scribes Team Google Docs (take class notes)
• Global team e-pals IVC- Skype
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• Need 5 students each day then rotate-every
  student participates in a team

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1.    Institute Project Based Learning
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Students prefer dealing with questions rather
than answers, sharing their opinions,
participating in group projects, working with
real-world issues and people, and having teachers
who talk to them as equals rather than as
inferiors.
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2.    Develop Information Processing Skills
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Searching the NET- The Good-Bad-Ugly

• Think about your search
• Checking the source
• Reading Web addresses
• Determine the page authorship
• Check vital information
• Check the content
• Assessing the Web page stability
• Is the information current?
• Are links made from the site relevant?
• Who links to the site, and why?
• What organization/person is behind site?

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3.   Develop Problem Solving Skills
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6 Steps To Problem Solving

• Define the problem and set a goal for change.
• Brainstorming options.
• Evaluate options.
• Making a plan of action.
• Evaluation
• Modification.

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Lessons in Politically Incorrect Accountability
by Dave AndersonWhat's Your Excuse, White Boy?

• How can you rationalize, trivialize, or
  marginalize the fact that you aren't successful?
  It's been a white male's world in this country
  since it began. You've made the rules, held the
  highest offices, run the major corporations, and
  controlled the country's purse strings. Compared
  to your coworker counterparts, you haven't had to
  fight prejudice, march for civil or equal rights,
  petition for the right to vote, or sue for equal
  wages in the workplace. Your color and gender
  have made you more immediately acceptable,
  preferable, and prone to promotion for centuries.
  

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If you are a mentally and physically healthy
white male and can't find success in this
country, under these most favorable conditions,
you are without a doubt the biggest loser in the
history of mankind. Whine all you like about
affirmative action, reverse discrimination, and
other injustices you see, as the balance of power
begins to slowly shift away from your domain.
While these corrupt practices are misguided and
wrong they're not to fault for your sorry state.
Your problem is that you surrendered much of the
head start granted at your conception to a
combination of smugness, laziness, arrogance,
sloppy character, absent discipline, failure to
educate yourself, and complacency-and now you've
got to suck it up, swallow your pride, and get
back to work before you become an irrelevant
pimple in the white trash wing of the has-been
hall of fame. Don't expect anyone to shed tears
for you. It's high time you put down the can of
Meisterbrau, get off your puke green sofa, pull
up your pants over your butt cheeks, bleach the
tobacco stains from your hands, brush your tooth,
and get a job!
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Is this what will happen if we do NOT provide our
Digital Kids with 21st Century Skills?
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4.    Give Kids A Global Voice and Globalize the
Curriculum
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Span-O-Ramics-Durango High School
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Kids have almost no choices at all about how they
are educated -- they are, for the most part, just
herded into classrooms and told what to do and
when to do it.
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5.  Develop Critical Thinking Skills
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Think and speak clearly..
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A well cultivated critical thinker(3rd Grade
- Room 208 Podcast)
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A well cultivated critical thinker

• raises vital questions
• gathers and assesses relevant information, comes
  to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions
• thinks open-mindedly and about the implications,
  and practical consequences
• communicates effectively with others
• and a commitment to overcome our native
  egocentrism and sociocentrism.

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6.    Teach Our Students to Be Self-Directed
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Lisa Shuba-Durango Colorado
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7. Create Collaborate - Communicate
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Colorado Book Awards Park Elementary
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The fact is, our young people are woefully under
prepared for the demands of todays workplace,
said Ken Kay, President of the Partnership for
21st Century Skills
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Young People Urgently Need New Skills to Succeed
in the Global Economy

• Headline in the news Nov. 6. 2006

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Staff developmentMarket PlaceWorkshopsEducatio
nal Leaders
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We want to make use of this new technology to
encourage diversity, we have to take the lead.
Let us make the tests that they foreign
competitors will try to catch up on. These won't
be tests where everybody's got to give the right
answer. They will be tests where people do
things, where they get results. Where knowledge
is not for giving the right answer. Knowledge is
for mobilizing for a purpose, to make something
happen, to achieve a goal. The goal might be
making a machine, it might be creating a work of
art, it might be making a theory, but it's a
personal goal that the individual believes in,
and not something that's written down in a
curriculum.-Seymour Papert (1999)
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• 1.    Institute Project Based Learning
• 2.    Develop Information Processing Skills
• 3.    Develop Problem Solving Skills
• 4.    Give Kids A Global Voice and Globalize the
  Curriculum
• 5.  Develop Critical Thinking Skills
• 6.    Teach Our Students to Be Self-Directed
• 7. Create Collaborate Communicate
• 8. Staff development

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• from the book The Backdoor to Enlightenment
• Eight Steps to Living Your Dreams and Changing
  Your World

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Will you be the 10th person?

• For every nine people who denounce innovation,
  only one will encourage it.
• For every nine people who do things the way they
  have always been done, only one will ever wonder
  if there is a better way.
• For every nine people who stand in line in front
  of a locked building, only one will ever come
  around and check the back door.
• Our progress as a species rests squarely on the
  shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are
  satisfied with things they are told are valuable.
  
• Person 10 determines for himself what has value.

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Lets Change The World
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The Power Of One Changing the World of
Education One Teacher At A
Time

• Howie DiBlasi
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• Digital Journey
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• Presentation June,2008

Presentation 2033
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• Critical thinking is, in short, self-directed,
  self-disciplined, self-monitored, and
  self-corrective thinking. It presupposes assent
  to rigorous standards of excellence and mindful
  command of their use. It entails effective
  communication and problem solving abilities

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A student in West Virginia offered this nugget
"If I were using simulation in school, that would
be the sweetest thing ever!"
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Educators are, in large part, bullish on the role
technology can play in improving student
outcomes. But too large a percentage of them
aren't receiving adequate training in the areas
that matter most instructional software,
technology integration, learning outcomes
management, and designing individual lesson
plans.
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Einstein was slow to speak, defiant, had a
distaste for rote learning and was called a LAZY
DOG by his mathematics professor, Hermann
Minkowski, because of Albert's lack of interest
in the classWired Magazine April, 2007
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What would happen if..?
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Gender Based Classrooms

• Ann Richards School For Young Women
• First in Texas and Austin School District
• State Assessment test (TAKS)
• (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills)
• Reading 6 grade 100
• Reading 7th grade 98
• Math 6th grade 99
• Math 7th grade 98
• Writing 7th grade 98

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Student Enrollment at Ann Richards School For
Young Women

• African American 18
• Hispanic 51
• White 29
• Asian 2

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One of the strangest things in this age of young
people's empowerment is how little input our
students have into their own education and its
future. .. Marc Prensky
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Knock to the Noggin

• A man wanted to enter and exclusive club but did
  not know the required password. He waited by the
  door and listened. A club member knocked on the
  door and the doorman said, TWELVE. The member
  replied ,SIX. And was in. A second member came
  to the door and the doorman said, SIX. The
  member replied, THREE and was let in. The man
  thought he heard enough and walked up to the
  door. The doorman said. TEN and the man
  replied, FIVE. He was NOT let in..what should
  he have said?

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Digital Kids-Analog Schools