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Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype: Focusing on What Really MattersDavid Jakes
Everything.
What does it mean to be well-educated…in the 21st Century?.
Facebook: 200 million/2.6 billionBlogs: 133/346 millionTwitter: 1.1 Billion/3 millionFlickr: 4 BillionWikipedia: 10 million articlesYouTube: 100 million videos, 1 million dollars a day, 4 years of content in a single day
“Any medium sufficiently powerful to enable the distribution of cute cat pictures can also, under the right circumstances, be deployed to bring down a government.”
Ethan Zuckermann
Image from Flickr: aaronfreimark
What will be possible for this child?
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Urbanspoon Scope iPhone Augmented RealityFrom the NY Times
Wikitude
These technologies are disruptive…
The businesses are asking: “how do we monetize this?”The youth are asking: “how do we hang out here?”The nonprofits are asking: “how do we use this for social change?”The designers are asking: “how do we facilitate interaction?”The politicians are asking: “how do we get elected with this?”The educators are asking: “how do we teach with this?”
Adapted from Emergent by Design
Everyone has their ideas…
NET-S, T, and APartnership for 21st
Century SkillsHorizon ReportSchool 2.0KnowledgeWorks
2020 ForecastACOT-TodayCoSNNSTANSFNCTEMIT New Media
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Web 2.0School 2.0Library 2.0Student 2.0Teaching 2.021st Century Skills21st Century Literacy21st Century Fluency
Students: 1.0? 2.0? What do you think?
Do we a gap to negotiate?
"We have committed to synergistically fashion high-quality products so that we may collaboratively provide access to inexpensive leadership skills in order to solve business problems“
"Our challenge is to assertively network economically sound methods of empowerment so that we may continually negotiate performance based infrastructures"
From the Dilbert Mission Statement Generator
From the Dilbert.com Mission Statement Generator
Are there new literacies?
“The internet has introduced us to a world in which we can communicate with each other in a wide variety of media. Where formally we could only talk and sing to each other, now we can create videos, author animations, link to videos and images and cartoons, and more, mix and match these in a complex open-ended vocabulary. “
“The internet has introduced us to a world in which we can communicate with each other in a wide variety of media. Where formally we could only talk and sing to each other, now we can create videos, author animations, link to videos and images and cartoons, and more, mix and match these in a complex open-ended vocabulary. “
“What it means to be literate in such an information age is fundamentally distinct from the literacy of the 3Rs, and teaching new literacy an evolving challenge for those of us still struggling to learn it.”
Stephen Downes
Do you see the Internet (and Web 2.0) as “a context in which to read, write, and communicate?”Leu et. al 2009
“Being literate in a real-world sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be…” Jason Ohler
How do we rethink the dimensions of schools?
How do we rethink the dimensions of learning spaces?
Physical Space (Classroom)
Physical Space(Classroom)
Digital Space
Core Skills
New Context
Learning Space
formal
informal
synchronous
asynchronous
What happens when learning spaces become permeable?
Core Skills
? ? ? ? ?
Tools
Goal 2: Incorporate new and evolving technologies that support the development of literacy.
Adapted from the Science Leadership Academy Philadelphia, PA used with permission
A question…Given those core skills, what attributes run horizontally across all core skills?
Communication
CommunicationCritical Thinking
CommunicationCritical ThinkingCollaboration
CommunicationCritical ThinkingCollaborationCreativity
CommunicationCritical ThinkingCollaborationCreativityCitizenship
Goal 2: Core Skill-Collaboration
Collaboration is the ….
Tools: Wikis and Google Apps for Education
Professional Development
Embed through Curricular Teams
Evaluation and Adjustment
Knowledge Commons
Physical Learning Space
Course Learning Space(Moodle)
StudentLearning
Space(Google Apps)
AP Biology
Japanese Metacourse
LibGuides
Everything.
Our students bring raw skills…it is our responsibility to shape those skills…
…into the habits and dispositions that will last a lifetime .
Begin the literacy discussion…this isn’t about tools.
What is your vision of the types of skills need to be well-educated in the 21st Century?
“What is the worst consequence of your best idea?” Chris Lehmann
Think systemic!
