Our Students -- Our Worlds

David Warlick • The Landmark Project • http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/

Our StudentsOur Worlds

2007 CCSSO Summer Institute


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A Perfect Education

Workforcethat can work in…

• Straight rows

• Performing repetitive tasks

• Under close supervision


For the first time in history

Our job as educators

Is to prepare our children

For a future

That We can not clearly describe.


• Did you know that …If Wal-Mart was a country, it would now be China's eighth-biggest trading partner…?

• Did you know that …UPS ships 13.5 million packages a day… At any given moment, 2% of the world's GDP is in the back of a UPS delivery truck?

Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Why are we outsourcing all of this manufacturing?

What do I need to know, to be able to facilitate this kind of

supply chain?


• Did you know that …in 2003, Chinese students graduating with engineering degrees represented 46% of all graduates. In the US it was only 5%.

• Almost half of NASA’s 18,146 employees are over 50 years old.

• NASA Employees over the age of 60 out number those under 30

By a margin of 3 to 1


Richard Florida says…

– Lose 500,000 manufacturing jobs

+ Gain 200,000 Science & Engineering jobs

+ 400,000 creative arts jobs (visual arts, music, drama, culture, & entertainment)

Florida, Richard. The Flight of the Creative Class. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.


He’s not investing in the technology!

He’s investing inthe Story!


They were born after

• The Reagan era

• The Persian Gulf War

• The walkman

Most of them were born after

• The breakup of the Soviet Union

• Tiananmen Square

• Compact Discs had been around for a decade.

They have never

• Played Pac Man or Pong

• Listened to an 8-track

• Purchased a vinyl album

• Seen a TV with less than 100 channels

• Heard “Where’s the Beef?”, “I’d walk a mile for a camel”, or “de plane, de plane.”

They’re Smart & Connectedand very few have any formative recollection of the 20th century

Our Children are Different


A Story from a Techie

Vinod Khosla

Founding CEO of Sun Microsystems

• Children believe that “…everything is clickable, even their parents.”

Khosla, Vinod."ITConversations." Vinod Khosla: In Conversations with John Battelle. Web 2.0 Conference, San Francisco. 5 Oct 2005. Audio Archive. 25 Nov 2005 <http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail796.html>.

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:No lol

:I lmao

:wombat

:bb?

:224Waste of Money Brains and Time


• Got Game by John Beck & Mitchell Wade

• The Kids are Alright: How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace by John Beck & Mitchell Wade

• What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee

• Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning! By Marc Prensky

• How Computer Games Help Children Learn By David Williamson Shaffer


Machinima


We see information as a

product

They see information as a raw material

Duss, Leslie. "Reading.JPG." Leslie Duss' Photostream. 21 Mar 2006. 28 Jul 2007 <http://flickr.com/photos/leslieduss/150799155/>.Harris, Steve. "Always Here." Steveharris' Photostream. 9 Sep 2006. 28 Jul 2007 <http://flickr.com/photos/sharris/238772338/>.


Web 1.0I N F O R M A T I O N ?


Web 2.0

http://digg.com


Web 2.0

http://wikipedia.org/


Web 2.0

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Davis, Matthew. "Congress 'Made Wikipedia Changes'." BBCNews 9 Feb 2006 12 Nov 2006 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4695376.stm>.


Heidigoseek, "AADL - New Books." Heidigoseek's Photostream. 20 Mar 2006. 13 Nov 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/heidigoseek/115581765/>.Althouse, Ann. "September 11th News." Ann Althouse's Photostream. 11 Sep 2005. 13 Nov 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/althouse/42300120/>.


What does it mean to be literate today?What does it mean to be literate today?

• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?

• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?


Anderson, Chris. "The Long Tail." WIRED Magazine Oct 2004. 17 Mar 2005 <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html>.

TheLong

Tail


Blogging has given my six and seven-year olds a window to the world. They see themselves as part of a global community--a community that shares... This international audience gives my students a purpose and they are motivated to do their best writing on their blog.

Kathy Cassidy

I worried about making my students’ developing language skills available to a wider audience – but I needn't have. They are developing their own voice and with a greater degree of

responsibility. Paul Harrington

Without a doubt the children that find their voices first and carry the most enthusiasm for blogging are my special needs children. Students who would agonize over a sentence are writing prolifically about their lives. (…the improvements in writing are steadily making their way back to paper and pencil!)

Elsie

Student bloggers…– Feel part of a global

community,– Exhibit a sense of

responsibility,– Are empowered

learners, particularly special needs students.

Student bloggers…– Feel part of a global

community,– Exhibit a sense of

responsibility,– Are empowered

learners, particularly special needs students.


ResponsibleLearners



• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?

• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?



Ethics Ethics Ethics

• Spam

• ..cost the world $50 billion dollars in 2005 (U.S. $19b).

• Expected to double in 2007.• According to the Copenhagen Consensus

We could bring HIV/AIDS under control for less than $35 billion.

Jennings, Richi. “Spam and Other Email Threats: Market and Technology Update.” Ferris Research. 8 Jun 2007. Ferris Research. 9 Jun 2007 <http://www.ferris.com/>.

Kerr, Roger. “Hard-Hedaded Spending Decisions not Cold-Hearted.” BusinessROUNDTABLE. 2 Jul 2004. New Zealand Business Roundtable. 9 Jun 2007 <http://www.nzbr.org.nz/documents/articles/articles-2004/040702Copenhagen.htm>



• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?

• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?

» Exposing truth

» Employing information

» Expressing ideas

compellingly

» Ethics Ethics Ethics


Learners Learners

Curriculum, Content &Teachers

Gravit

y Gravity

Our Classrooms are Flat

From the perspective of their information

landscape, our students are more

literate than we are!

Learners LearnersCurriculum

ContentTeachers


Vinod Khosla

Founding CEO of Sun Microsystems

• Content today is the dominant thing. But one thing that I can say, is that

• …it is going to be the company that can grow and maintain audiences (not content).

Khosla, Vinod."ITConversations." Vinod Khosla: In Conversations with John Battelle. Web 2.0 Conference, San Francisco. 5 Oct 2005. Audio Archive. 25 Nov 2005 <http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail796.html>.


An Unpredictable

Future

An Unpredictable

Future

Rich Informatio

n Experienc

e

Rich Informatio

n Experienc

e

New & Dynamic Information Landscape

New & Dynamic Information Landscape

Standards &

Curriculum

Standards &

CurriculumProfessional SupportProfessional Support

A Learning Engine

A Learning Engine




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