21st Century Learning and Skills

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21st Century Learning and Skills

• Jim Warford

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Lessons Learned
The story of Americas public schools is NOT



a
story of failure! We educate more students today
to a higher standard than ever before in our
history! But the world is changing even faster
than we are. Todays students are wired
differently!
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My Story Mary Kay Jones
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We educate more students today to a higher
standard than ever before in our history! But
the world is changing even faster than we
are! Faster than we imagine Faster than we Can
imagine!!!
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Computer Sales
Computer Manufacturers
Dell Sony Compaq HP IBM Think Pad Apple NEC Gatewa
y Toshiba
Quanta Wispron Asustek Compal Inventec
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Mainland China Companies
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Cities with 1 Million People
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U.S. Demographic Change
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Demographics / Economic
3.0 / 100
1910
4.6 / 100
1946
1.4 1.8 / 100
2000
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Start Working End Working Longevity
107
77
62
62
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14
18
1900
2000
2100
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Debt

• Federal Budget 2006 Deficit

1.3 trillion

• Total per household

516,348
31,000 per year for 75 years
Source USA Today
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• Changing Technology
• Processing
• Communications

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The Result Todays students areWIRED
differently.
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Let me Show you
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Are you feelingstressed yet?
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Highly Visual 21st Century Learners

• Speed of processing
• Size of the brain devoted to visual processing
• Association prior to meaning

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The Students Brain

• No meaning without personal connection or emotion
• The Media Generation highly visual
• The Big 4
• Context
• Transfer
• Parts-to-Whole
• Inference

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The CNN Effect and Your Classroom

• The CNN screen and other media and
  technology are numbing students visual systems
  to subtle changes.
• Advertisers know this and so do Hollywood
  filmmakers.
• What does it mean in the classroom?
• Attention and motivation factors

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21st Century Learners
Digital Native Learners

• Multitasking
• Multimedia learning
• Online social networking
• Online info searching
• Games, simulations creative expressions

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R U cycle? Book! Fancy an adds down the sub?
There's a gr8 new carnage.
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It may look like gobbledegook, but streetwise
teenagers would have no trouble understanding A
new language is being developed by cell
phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text
of their treasured handsets Key words are
replaced by the first alternative that comes up
on a mobile phone using predictive text
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The new words are known as Netspeak, Textonyms,
Adaptonyms or Cellodromes. And are becoming part
of regular teen conversation.
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Lesson LearnedFlorida Virtual School
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How dotodays studentsfeel about YOUR school?
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Student Survey Percentages
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Student Survey Percentages
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Student Survey Percentages
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Student Survey Percentages
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What reportwas released in 1983?
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1983 - A Nation at Risk

• E-mail
• Web pages
• Google
• iPODs
• Laptops
• Digital cameras
• Doppler radar
• Cell Phones
• Debit cards

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2000

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Tagging
• Text messaging
• MySpace
• Podcasts
• PDAs
• Genetic code

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As the Future Catches You By Juan Enriquez
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• Challenges
• Technology
• Globalization
• Demographics

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From Theory to Practice

• Moving Rigor and Relevance
• Into the Classroom

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Based upon what works!Model Schoolsand the
Successful Practices Network
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The Rigor/Relevance Framework Is critical For
21st Century Students
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Rigor/Relevance Framework
Knowledge
Application
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Knowledge Taxonomy

• 1. Awareness
• 2. Comprehension
• 3. Application
• 4. Analysis
• 5. Synthesis
• 6. Evaluation

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Application Model

• 1. Knowledge in one discipline
• 2. Application within discipline
• 3. Application across disciplines
• 4. Application to real-world predictable
  situations
• 5. Application to real-world unpredictable
  situations

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Levels
Blooms
C D A B
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5
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3
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1 2 3 4 5
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Application
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Teacher/Student Roles
D
C
Student Think
Student Think Work
RIGOR
High
B
A
Teacher Work
Student Work
Low
High
Low
RELEVANCE
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Brain Researchis providing new support.
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Latest Research

• Donald Roberts - Stanford
• Jordan Grafman National Institute of
  Neurological Disorders
• Hal Pashler University of California
• Cheryl Grady Rothman Research Center, Toronto
• David Meyer University of Michigan
• Claudia Knooz Duke

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Activating Learning

• Learning takes place when multiple neurons fire
  from numerous places in the brain, and these new
  memories can be retrieved over a period of time.
• Learning must be connected and relevant to be
  remembered.
• We only remember things that have meaning for us.

The Brain Responding to Visual Stimuli Image
courtesy of R. Clay Reid
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Use it or lose it,becauseNeurons that fire
together,wire together!
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You want your neural networks to look like a
maple treenot a palm tree.
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Connections / Pathways
Association Area
Prefrontal Cortex
Sight
Hearing
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Rigor/Relevance Framework
Knowledge
High
Application
Low
Low
High
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What we can do is take the best features of the
American systemopenness, INNOVATION, creativity,
and flexibilityand enhance them so that we can
create new industries, new technologies, and new
jobs.
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United States
Source Tough Choices Tough Times, National
Center on Education and the Economy
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A majority of U.S. voters agree that building
studentsimaginations to equip young people with
the ability to innovate is as important as
teaching them the academic basics.
Education Week, 1/08
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Are you feeling any pressure yet?
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