Putting the Pieces Together: Making Connections with Curriculum Mapping

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Putting the Pieces Together Making Connections
with Curriculum Mapping

• NESA Spring Educators Conference

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Your Facilitator
John Moore Meng Zhou Rubicon International
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Goals

• Explore how the newest features in the Atlas
  system can be applied and used to maximize
  curriculum design efforts.
• Examine the use of widgits within Atlas to
  support and drive initiatives and pedagogies.
• Strategize with colleagues on best practices.

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What is happening in the world today?
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Current Trends

1. Globalization
2. Micro Trends
3. Pervasive Technology
4. Exponential Rate of Change

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Globalization
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Microtrends

• In todays mass societies it takes only 1 of
  people making a dedicated choice -contrary to
  main stream choice - to create a movement to
  change the world!
• From Microtrends The Small Forces Behind
  Tomorrows Big Change Mark Penn

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Pervasive Technology
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Rate of Change
Todays student will hold 10-14 jobs by the time
they are 38.
The top 10 jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004!
In the US within the next decade, 75 of the
current teachers will have been replaced.
More than 3,000 books are published daily.
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Your Reflections on Todays World Trends
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The Students of Today
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Generation Difference Summary
Question Generation Y (born 1980 1995/2001) Generation X (born 1960s-1980) Baby Boomers (1947-1964)
What do you want from a job? Fun, challenging, interesting, money not so important Money, rise, promotion, office with a door, window, want your job, respect Superannuation, pension, no change
What do you want from the boss? Dont believe the boss concept, wont follow a manager who just talks, wants a mentor Stop trying and making promises that cant be delivered, want truth Go away dont micro manage me, just tell me what you want
If the job doesnt deliver? Leaves immediately, cant be bought, dont buy passion or engagement Negotiate with you. I need you to focus on work life balance (have young children and old parents). If dont deliver will stay but will start looking elsewhere. Have to spend on them talk is cheap Hang in sometimes said that retire on the job
From the Department of Education in South
Australia
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Its interdisciplinary combinations design and
technology, mathematics and art that produce
YouTube and Google.
Jobs in todays world are about innovation. The
new breakthroughs are about thinking across the
disciplines.

• Thomas Friedman The World is Flat

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What skills are most important for job success
when hiring a High School graduate?
Work Ethic 80
Collaboration 75
Good Communication 70
Social Responsibility 63
Critical Thinking Problem Solving 58
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the
Society for Human Resource Management. (2006)
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What skills and content areas will be growing in
importance in the next five years?
Critical Thinking 78
I.T. 77
Health Wellness 76
Collaboration 74
Innovation 74
Personal Financial Responsibility 72
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What might the World Look Like for our Students
in 2021?
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Our First Graders are Part of Generation Z

• Also known as iGeneration and Silent Generation
• They make up 18 of the worlds population
• Instant-gratification due to technology
• No memory of (or nostalgia for) pre-Internet
  history
• Take the Internet for granted
• Mass collaboration via Net Communities
• Lack of privacy
• Expect to speak to an audience

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2021
What skills and understandings will be needed for
the class of 2021?
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What will you need to integrate into your
curriculum to ensure your students are prepared
for the future?
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How Atlas can Help in Integrating Necessary
Components for Student Learning into the
Curriculum
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It Helps Us Connect
All The Pieces
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Atlas 7.0
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My Atlas
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Drag and Drop Capabilities
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Initial Plan for Lesson Integration
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Searching Attachments
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Dynamic Filtering in Browse
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Multi-Category Scope and Sequence
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Special Programs
Differentiation Modification Accommodation Enrichm
ent
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Assessment Standards
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Early Childhood
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Administration Professional Development
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Accreditation
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Character Education Values
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Professional LearningCommunities
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What are your key curriculum integration pieces?
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3-2-1

• List three observation from our discussions today
• Choose two curriculum integration opportunities
  to meet your student needs
• Identify one change you will make or recommend
  to your colleagues for this year.

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I believe that current formal education still
prepares students primarily for the world of the
past, rather than for possible worlds of the
future

• Howard Gardner