Welcome to the human network

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Welcome to the human network
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Learner-centered, lifelong learning has been the
cry of knowledge society visionaries for the last
decade. Yet learning continues to be delivered
with teacher-centric tools in a 8-10 week graded
format. Society is changing. Learners needs are
changing. Schools as we know them, as a model
for learning, are being challenged by communities
and networks, which are better able to attend to
the varied characteristics of the learning
process by using multiple approaches,
orchestrated within a learning ecology.
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Trend 1 Social and intellectual capital are the
new economic values in the world economy. This
new economy will be held together and advanced
through the building of relationships. Unleashing
and connecting the collective knowledge, ideas,
and experiences of people creates and heightens
value. SourceJournal of School Improvement,
Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002http//www.ncacasi.
org/jsi/2002v3i1/ten_trends
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Personal Learning Networks Community-- in and out
of the classroom Are you clickable- Are your
students?
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By the year 2011 80 of all Fortune 500 companies
will be using immersive worlds Gartner Vice
President Jackie Fenn
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Schools are a node on the network of learning.
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Shifting From Shifting To
A teaching focus A learning focus
Teaching as a private event Teaching as a collaborative practice
School improvement as an option School improvement as a requirement
Mandated accountability Mutual accountability
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Shifting From Shifting To
Lecturing on factual information Guiding, motivating, and facilitating
Working as individuals Valuing working together
Teacher as source of knowledge Many rich sources of immediate knowledge
Learning isolated fromthe community Learning is a global event- anytime/anywhere
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FORMAL INFORMAL
You go where the bus goes
You go where you choose
Jay Cross Internet Time
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http//www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepa
per.pdf
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MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACH
webcam
SYNCHRONOUS
Community platforms
VoIP
Conference rooms
Instant messenger
Worldbridges
PEER TO PEER
WEBCAST
folksonomies
email
Mailing lists
PLE
forums
f2f
vlogs
CMS
wikis
blogs
photoblogs
podcasts
ASYNCHRONOUS
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Passion-based learning is more than quick
learning bites used to produce test mastery

• Geetha Narayanan talks about the need for slow,
  wholesome learning. She looks at ways to bring
  people, technology, and learning together with a
  new conceptual framework.
• 3- types of educational leaders in terms of
  relationship with technology
• techno-skeptics
• techno-evangelists
• techno-mimetics .

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techo-skeptics- The techno-skeptics take the view
that nothing can or should really change. Rooted
in the continuity of grade-based schooling and of
linear and sequential learning.
The skeptics value technology as a tool as long
as it is in the right place - the lab and not the
classroom, with specialist rather than generalist
teachers and within the purview of a formal
department such as computer studies and not
integrated into the mainstream curriculum. They
privilege the authority of the printed word, the
traditional teacher, and the paper and pencil
test.
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techo-evangelist- They come from a wide range of
disciplines and backgrounds and have worked hard
over the years to substantiate their positions
through research and development.
Their world view is that a combination of speed,
of simultaneity, of virtual simulations and
distributed cognition will capacitate learners of
all ages and from all backgrounds to survive in
the 21st century. At the classroom level the
evangelists use research on brain-based learning,
learning styles, situated learning and
constructionism to argue for an integrated
curriculum with a focus on instructional
strategies that foster inquiry and research.
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techo-mimetics- as their label suggests, copiers
who settle for the latest fashions, fads or
trends in education, technology being no
exception. Their interest in technology is
short-lived and transient.
Therefore their schools have large state of the
art computer labs, with perhaps both broadband
connectivity and wi-fi their brochures repeat
the current rhetoric on technology-related
learning and they invest a lot in both mass and
custom made brands to support this position. To
mimetics education is like a shopping mall or a
theme park, something that has value only in the
short term as long as it attracts young
consumer-learners who can plug, play and perhaps
even learn!
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Letting Student Passion and Interest Rule the
Curriculum
Lisa Duke's students at First Flight High School
in the Outer Banks in NC created this video as
part of a service project in her Civics and
Economics course curriculum.
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Dorothy Parker The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
Instill Curiosity Encourage students to explore
their interests and passions. Be that
teacher Study without desire spoils the memory,
and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da Vanci
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Rethinking Teaching and Learning

1. Multiliterate
2. Change in pedagogy
3. Change in the way classrooms are managed
4. A move from deficit based instruction to strength
   based learning
5. Collaboration and communication Inside and
   Outside the classroom

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Spending most of your time in your area of
weaknesswhile it will improve your skills,
perhaps to a level of averagewill NOT produce
excellence This approach does NOT tap into
student motivation or lead to student
engagement The biggest challenge facing us as
educators how to engage the hearts and minds of
the learners
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Individuals gain more when they build on their
talents, than when they make comparable efforts
to improve their areas of weakness. --Clifton
Harter, 2003, p. 112
Engaged Learning- A positive energy invested in
ones own learning, evidenced by meaningful
processing, attention to what is happening in the
moment, and participation in learning activities.
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More quotes to consider
Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity
survives formal education.
Albert Einstein It is, in fact, nothing short of
a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of
inquiry.Anatole France The whole art of
teaching is only the art of awakening the natural
curiosity of young minds for the purpose of
satisfying it afterwards
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From this
To This
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Real Question is thisAre we willing to change-
to risk change- to meet the needs of the precious
folks we serve? Can you accept that Change (with
a big C) is sometimes a messy process and that
learning new things together is going to require
some tolerance for ambiguity.