Technology & Education

San Ramon Valley Unified School District

Bruce Chmieleski, San Ramon Valley USD, January 2010

Why Change?

• “Any job—blue or white collar—that can be broken down into a routine and transformed into bits and bytes can now be exported to other countries where there is a rapidly increasing number of highly educated ‘knowledge workers’ who will work for a small fraction of the salary of a comparable American worker.”

-- Tom Friedman, The World is Flat, 2005

Changing Expectations of our Students

“No cohort in human history has opened such a fissure between its material conditions and its intellectual attainments.”

-- Mark Bauerlein, Emory University English Professor, 2007

Why Change?

• “These are just technologies. Using them does not make you modern, smart, moral, wise, fair, or decent. It just makes you able to communicate, compete, and collaborate farther and faster.”

-- Tom Friedman, The World is Flat, 2005

User-Created Content

• Over 4 billion available images on • Hundreds of millions of videos watched

daily on . 20 hrs of new video uploaded every minute.

• Over 350 million users.• Over 14 million Wikipedia articles by

over 85,000 contributors.

William Kamkwamba

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

• Survived famine in Malawi

• Curiosity brought electricity to his family….

William Kamkwamba

• ….and now water and schools to villages

• “I try, and I made it.”

Why Change?• “Schools haven’t

changed; the world has. And so our schools are not failing. Rather, they are obsolete—even the ones that score the best on standardized tests.”

-- Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap, 2008

Why Change?

• “For the first time in history, we're preparing kids for a future that we cannot clearly describe.”

- David Warlick, Teacher, Author, Innovation Consultant

What’s Our Response?

Most Important SkillsSurvey of 400+

Business Leaders

• Professionalism/Work Ethic• Oral and Written Communications• Teamwork/Collaboration and• Critical Thinking/Problem-Solving.

-- The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management, 2006

NETS-S

Seven Survival Skills

• Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving• Collaboration across Networks and

Leading by Influence• Agility and Adaptability• Initiative and Entrepreneurialism

-- Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap, 2008

Seven Survival Skills

• Effective Oral and Written Communication

• Accessing and Analyzing Information• Curiosity and Imagination

-- Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap, 2008

Advice to Students

• Major in Learning– Analytical Reasoning– Communication Skills– Willingness to Experiment– Team Players– Passion and Leadership

Teachers as….• Providers of context, not content• Collaborative Learners with Students

Model 2.0 Classroom

A Caveat….

• “Technology has the shelf life of a banana.” -Scott McNealy, Chairman, Sun Microsystems

Technology Challenges

• Bandwidth & Ubiquitous Connectivity• Communications• Video Security• Aging Servers, Storage, Switches• Aging User Gear at Schools• Technology Replacement Plan

Infrastructure Challenges

A 21st Century Teaching and Learning Environment

• 1:1• computing

• C.O.W.S.• (wireless classroom)

• Computer Labs

• Interactive Boards• Video Conferencing

• Projection Equipment• Computer Teaching Station• Audio Enhancement

Student Information

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21st Century Learning & Teaching

Telecommunications

Internet/ Intranet

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Learning to Change….

….Changing to Learn

21st Century Education

Giving students the skills to create lasting ripples….

Image & Video Credits• Globe in hand http://www.flickr.com/photos/veo/493198575/• Guy with globe http://www.flickr.com/photos/restlessglobetrotter/2513014001/• Students with handhelds http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation• Students with notebook PCs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33609970@N06/3385172794/• Girl with Kindle reader http://www.flickr.com/photos/gubatron/2256923510/• Girl with camera in sunset

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisschuepp/2273751973/in/photostream/• Kids on video conference http://www.flickr.com/photos/torres21/3571764613/• Virtual world http://www.flickr.com/photos/vrider/3360565245/• Hot pink obsolete http://www.flickr.com/photos/niznoz/118139041/• Einstein with color http://www.flickr.com/photos/avidya/2479192695/• Project-Based Learning video

http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning-introduction-video

All Flickr images in this presentation are licensed under the Creative Commons.

Image & Video Credits• Google Advice http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/joininggoogle/index.html• Blue fiber http://www.flickr.com/photos/placbo/2401047587/• CyberSmart green blocks http://cybersmart.org/• RCA dog http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkadog/3353936487/• Richard Elmore poster http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/2942564830/• Three toy apes http://www.flickr.com/photos/neuro74/2789591642/• House on its head http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinofranchi/2891200283/• Fortune cookie http://www.flickr.com/photos/unbreakableties/3089271311/• Refresh logo http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/105050162/• Vision of K-12 Students Today video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8• Learning to Change video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk• Freak the Mighty book image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_the_Mighty• Examples from SRVUSD schools were submitted by various school personnel or copied from the

schools’ web sites.•

All Flickr images in this presentation are licensed under the Creative Commons.