Different World Different Schools

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Different World Different Schools
Children are native to cyberspace and we, as
adults, are immigrants.
-Douglas Ruskoff
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Digital Age LiteracyTodays Basics Inventive
ThinkingIntellectual Capital Effective
CommunicationSocial and Personal
Skills ProductivityHigh Quality,
State-of-the-Art Results
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21st Century Skills
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http//enGauge.ncrel.org
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A Window of Opportunity
Return on Investment
Effective Uses of Technology
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Why Consider 21st Century Skills?

• Economic Viability
• Higher Academic Achievement
• Life Skills for a Digital Age

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Economic Indicators

• Knowledge Jobs
• Globalization
• Economic Dynamism
• The Digital Economy
• Innovation Capacity

http//www.neweconomyindex.org/
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Different World
Industrial workers were measured by their
efficiency. Knowledge workers will be
measured by their effectiveness.
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Different Worldview
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but
in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must
be feasible. Yale University
Management Professor
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Are your Students prepared to Thrive in a
Digital Age?
Thinking
WISE
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Why Consider 21st Century Skills?

• Economic Viability
• Higher Academic Achievement
• Life Skills for a Digital Age

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BRIDGE
THE
TO EFFECTIVE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
technology
SOUND LEARNING THEORY
DIGITAL AGE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
HIGH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT by STUDENTS READY TO
THRIVE IN A DIGITAL AGE
ADVANCES IN NEUROSCIENCE COGNITION
TECHNOLOGY GLOBALIZATION
DIGITAL AGE TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
DIGITAL AGE ASSESSMENTS
THE NEW ECONOMY
ACADEMICS 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
technology
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Authentic Intellectual Work Counts!

• Products
• Rigorous Content
• Value Beyond School

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Quality of Assignments Counts
Source Improving Chicagos Schools, Fred Newman
2001
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Digital Age LiteracyTodays Basics
Basic Literacy, Scientific and Technological
Literacy Visual and Information LiteracyOnline
Research Cultural Literacy and Global Awareness
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Sunnyside Elementary
This first and second grade class integrates
social studies, science, math, world language,
visual arts, cultural awareness, and service
learning using technology and the Internet.

• DATA
• Student reflection on own learning
• Authentic, real-life interactions
• Teaching for Understanding (Harvard)
• Local-to-global curricula
• Students consistently meet and exceed national
  and state standards.

http//www.psd267.wednet.edu/kfranz/index.htm
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The Visually Literate Student

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• informed viewers and critics of visual
  information
• knowledgeable designers, composers, and producers
  of visuals
• effective communicators using visuals
• expressive, innovative thinkers and successful
  problem solvers using visuals

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Visual Literacy Expressive, innovative thinkers
and successful problem solvers  
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Truth in Advertising
www.pbskids.org/dontbuyit/
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Inventive Thinking-- Intellectual Capital
Adaptability/Managing Complexity Self-Direction Cu
riosity, Creativity and Risk taking Higher Order
Thinking and Sound Reasoning
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Web-based Integrated Science Environment
Students critique real-world evidence from the
Web, compare different scientific arguments, and
design problem-solving approaches based on
scientific principles

• Effectiveness
• Design based on 15 years of research
• Online graphing
• Online discussions
• Scaffolded learning
• Students who perform a WISE project demonstrate
  reliable learning gains, as measured by
  assessments that reflect both content and process
  standards.

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Effective Communication Social and
Personal Skills
Teaming, Collaboration, and Interpersonal Skills
Personal and Social Responsibility Interactive
Communication
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Source Peter Senge. 2000. Schools that Learn
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Hawaii Student Team Project

• The Data
• After school program with ThinkQuest guidelines
• Students decided topic, message, and medium
• Powerful productspowerful messagespowerful
  reflections

I think I became a better person while working
on this project because I know more about
values. --Clinton, Age 10
http//library.thinkquest.org/J001709/thinkquest_v
alues/make_call/start.html
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High ProductivityState-of-the-Art Results
Prioritizing, Planning, and Managing for
Results Effective Use of Real-World
Tools Relevant, High Quality Products
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Geometry in the Real World
Students research architectural design elements,
work in teams to design a school for the Year
2050,and present their products to outside
experts.

• Strengths
• Real-world Application
• Community Involvement
• Teaming and Collaboration
• High Productivity
• Motivation and Engagement

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Urbana High School Museum in the Classroom
Project http//www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/U
HSArt/mic3/
Museum in the Classroom

• Opportunity
• Rich community resources
• Typically formal learning
• Interdisciplinarymath and art
• High productivitypublic presentation
• Teaming

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Effective Practice

• This is not your fathers slope equation lesson!

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different Worldviews
Pam
Kim
Aaron
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Digital Age LiteracyTodays Basics Inventive
Thinking-- Intellectual Capital       Effective
Communication Social and Personal
Skills ProductivityHigh Quality,
State-of-the-Art Results

• Basic Literacy, Scientific and Technological
  Literacy
• Visual and Information LiteracyOnline Research
• Cultural Literacy and Global Awareness

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• Adaptability/Managing Complexity and
  Self-Direction
• Curiosity, Creativity and Risk taking
• Higher Order Thinking and Sound Reasoning

21st Century Skills
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• Teaming, Collaboration, and Interpersonal Skills
• Personal and Social Responsibility
• Interactive Communication

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• Prioritizing, Planning, and Managing for Results
• Effective Use of Real-World Tools
• Relevant, High Quality Products

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New metrics for education

• the academics
• (things never before possible)
• 21st Century Skills
• (things never before so critical)

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What do tests predict?
link is missing. Traditional testsshow only
nominal statistical links to measures of worker
productivity, and the new standards on which
present tests are being constructed have not been
validated at all.

• H.M. Levin, D. Jacks
• High Stakes Testing and Economic Productivity,
  Draft Paper for conference sponsored in 1998 by
  the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University

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Five Things

• Get the Digital Age on your schools radar screen
• Identify the things that work expect use and
  gains by allstay focused
• Build bridgeshonor and extend existing work

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Five Things continued

• Make technology decisions at the system level
  (base them on students learning needs)
• Redefine measures of success to include 21st
  Century skills

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Leadership






Imagination Intelligence Courage