If I get up early enough, I want to check out "Immersive, Collaborative Simulations and Neo-Millenial Learning Styles: Implications for Education." I downloaded an article on 'neo-millenial' learning styles a few weeks ago to use for an assignment in my master's program so this sounds interesting. (I did it! I'm up for a 7:30 am session).
7:30- 8:30 Eye-Opening Keynote
Immersive, Collaborative Simulations and Neo-Millenial Learning Styles: Implications for Education-
Selected as Harvard University's Outstanding Teacher, Endowed Chair, etc. etc. (wow!)
I googled and this is the fellow who wrote the article I mentioned above! How cool.
Education is evolving. Emerging information technologies are influencing all of these:
Shifts in the knowledge and skills society values.
Development of new methods of teaching and learning.
Changes in the characteristics of learners.
Panasonic ideas for life video illustrates the above 3 trends (tried to find it online but I couldn't) . What happens outside of the classroom is more 21st century than the tedium of sitting in a desk watching a teacher write on the board.
Learning styles:
sensory based (visual, auditory)
personalitybased (Myers-Briggs)
Aptitude- based (multiple intelligences- "As my colleague, Howard Gardner, likes to remind me..." LOVE IT!)
Currently we tend to exercise a 'lawn-sprinkler' approach to teaching. Throw a little bit all around.
Different kind of learning style: MEDIA-BASED- describes how people are similar.
Media shape their participants, regardless of age.
Millenial Learning Styles-Here are 2:
1. The Web rewards comparing multiple sources of information, individually incomplete and collectively inconsistent (mindless accumulating or seeking sieving and synthesizing)
2. Digital media and interfaces encourage multi-tasking (superficial, easily distracted data gathering or a sophisticated form of synthesizing new insights)
21st century is quite different than the 20th century and therefore today's capabilities needed for work, citizenhip, self-actualisation must take into account:
a transforming workplace and economy
a world too complex for an individual to fully understand, no matter how intelligent they are
a pace of change that requires high degrees of flexibility and a tolerance for uncertainty
Tom Friedman- educational implications of a flattened world- emerging interactive media now empower not only countries and companies but also individuals
Rapid advance of information technologices-
device: (cell, hdtv, pda)
application- word processors, medium- shred virtual environment, interactive tv, www.
infrastructure- internet, phone system, cable and broadcast televison, cyberspace
Automation vs Amplification-
This is the world for which we are preparing our students
Levy, F. and Murnane, RJ (2004) The New Division of Labor: How Computers are Creating the Next Job Market
A generation from now only 2 skills will be left that people will do better than machines:
expert decision making- what an auto mechanic does- when all the automated problem-solving methods fail, we can still figure it out.
complex communciations- what we do in teaching, take the complicated and make it understandable
Distributed work, cognition and learning
cognition is distributed across human minds, tools/media, groups of people and space/time- it is dispersed physically, socially and symbolically. Collectively the whole is worth more than the sum of the parts. Marketing video from Microsoft is a parody on The Devil Wears Prada.'
Technology is not creative or intelligent but is very sophisticated at doing "routine" tasks.
Our current high-schools will be graduating into another world and need to be trained for it.
Don't want to build games (we have enough winners and losers)- this is designed to teach (plattsburgh champlain connection wptz channel 4 Kate Messner english language teacher) science research. Sounds like Oregon Trail. This is used to reinforce use of scientific theory.
They will pay us for our help with their research.
Situated Learning-constellations of artchitectural, social, organizationa dnd amterial vectors that aid in learning culturally based practices
apprenticeship Ithe process of moving from novice to expert within a given ser of practice
legitimate peripheral participation(tacit learning similar to that involved in internships)
high fidelity is not important unless essential for tak (interpreting photographic images
Distributed-learning communitites- only virtual....oops, fell behind on the notetaking.
Ubiquitous computing
1:1 student to tool ratio
wireless mobile devides offer approximately 60? of the computeing power of laptops of a few years ago at 10 of the cost
wirelss mobile wdevise
Handheld augmented reality project (harp)- superimpose the real world on the virtual world
us dept of edu video: harpfinal2007 alien contact curriculum (middle school curriculum)
This is all the role play that we did in our social studies classes that so resonated with us and are what we remember form out time in school. Collaboratin in interdependence: chemist, linguist, fbi agent, computer expert.
Why does this work? Not because of the technology. Technology in and of itself doesn't do anything. Learning tech is like i clothes; they both need to be tailored to meet your needs.
1976- Little Professor 2006- Dell handheld 2015- ?????
We will see enough change in the next decade as we have in the last 30 years.
Different form of pedagogy:
experiences are central, rather than information that is a pre-digested experience for assimilation or synthesis
walking the tightrope between simplicity and complexity
knowledge is situated in and distributed across a community tather than located within an individual
reputation, experiences and accomplishments as measure of quality rather than test, papers
Don't give the bottom third easier things- they still need to be challenged. Don't give them pre-digested material. give them something complicatied where they need to decide what is important enough to be digested.
Umbrella for pedagogies: assumpltions about learning:
sleeping-eating-bonding
simple complex
Why do we treat learning as if it's like sleeping when it's more like bonding?
Neo-millenial learning style
Fluency in multiple media, valuing each for the types of communication, activites and expressions
learning based on collectively seeking, sieving and sythesizing experiences
communities of UNlearning
developing fluenciny in using emerging interactive media
complementing presentation, instruction with collaborative inquiry-based learning
unlearning almost unconscious assumptions and beliefs and values about the nature of teaching, learning and schooling
This ia a crucial issue for professional development. We'll unlearn best when we're members of a cohort.
8:45- 9:45 Concurrent Session 6
Scratch your students' programming itch!
Josh Burker- http://www.gfacademy.org Will give us the URL with all the notes so I get to just sit and listen for this presentation. Nice. Programming is a "good tool for teaching logic to students." (This was reinforced when I spoke with Matt Cole and Jon Leister about a workshop they attended on video game production)
I bounced from room to room this hour. Many sessions...that failed to excite. One seemed interesting but the presenter allowed an audience member to hijack the discussion to forward her own agenda and opinions. Details later.
Met up with other SJUSD folks again but had an interesting lunch speaking with teachers from San Bernadino who teach at a juvenile hall. Applications to check out: webspiration, click team multimedia fusion (?) Got to see Kathy Ferenz at lunch and hared with her how dreadfully addicted I am to my wiki (what in the world was I doing before this?!?!?!).
1:00- 2:00 Concurrent Session 8
State Based Models for 21st Century Skills Leadership in Education- an august crew and audience- Intel, Adobe, district directors, ph.d's.....and me.
I keep hearing the same melodies over and over in each session- what has worked before won't serve our children as preparation for the future. 86% of our jobs today are in the service sector- this is not just McDonalds but engineers, teachers....you ned to be able to collaborate, customize solutions, address specifics.
skills most important when hiring a hs graduate:
work ethic
collboration
god communication
social responsibility
crtitical thinging and problem solving
biggest deficiencies of recent hires:
written communication
leadership
wor eithic
crtitical thingking and problem solving
self-direction
skills and content areas growing in importance:
ct
it
health and wellness
collaboration
innovation
personal financial responsibility
20th Century Education Model = Content + Assessment (pour the content in and see what sticks)
21st Century Education Model = core subjects and 21st century themes surrounded by three skill sets (1-life and career skill/2-learning and innovation skills/3- information, media and technology skills).
Themes are :
global awareness
financial, economic, business and entrepeneurship literacy
civic literacy
health literacy
The above are critical issues that we all face and cut acrosss all content areas
Learning and Innovation skill
cri.th. pr. sol- reasoning effectively, making judgments and decisions
creativity and innovation- there is not an intentionality that it is directly taught. lEvery country on the planet wants this badly.
communication and collaboration-
i,m,ts- requires comprehension skils
information literaci
media literacy
ict (info com, tech) literacy
ISte and p21 are now aligned
Life and career skills
flexibility and adaptabiliy
initiative and self direction
social and cross -ultural skills
productivity and accountability
leadership and responsibility
THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE TEACHING OUR KIDS!!!!!!!!!!
I'M NOT GOING TO BE WALKING OUT OF THIS SESSION....VERY ENGAGING.
It's not about manipulating keyboards and mice; it's about the new areas of emphasis- innovation and creativity skills as well as information, media and technology skills.
Life and career skills had been targeted for kids who weren't going to college but now 21st c. these skills are for everyone; the same is true for crticial thinking- not just for the college bound.
Current state partners: Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North CArolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin. In some places there are school 'adoptions.' Need to have 21c in standards, assessment and professional development.
Five practices for key state strategies:
Build partnerships: NCBCE, Center for 21st centruy skills (NC), New Wisconsin Promise, Maine Advisory Council
Reach consensus: NC state board of ed policy- Future-ready students for the 21st century (west virginia may have a similar statement)
Align education, econ dev and workforce deb: MA Competitiveness paper (workforce development board). 21st c skills, education and competitiveness- a resource and policy guide
embed 21c into state standards; WV, WI, NJ, NY, p21 paper on 21st c kills and standars (route 21)
Embed 21c skills into other areas:
global awareness WI very agressive
high school reform NC
colleges of education AZ
youth development AZ
7 hints:
embed 21c skills into core subects- intel runs a large pd program. vignettes and discussions work well.
emphasoze the imprtance of ict literacy:
use p21 ict literacy maps
use NETS standards for students and teachers
align online learning with 21c skills
p21/nacol paper on virtual schools and 21st century skills
www.21stcentureyskills
use tech to deliver the prof de of 21st centur skills:
Conclusion: Are our students ready for a new global economy? American school system is not getting worse and worse; everyone else is getting better and better. Are our students critical thinkers and problem solvers? globally aeare? sef-directed? Give them more complicated projects.good collaborators? info and tech literate? flexible and adaptable? Need to be able to find multiple solutions and be able to defend them. innovative? effective communicators? These skills should become the design specs' for 21st century education in every state.
www.21stcenturyskills.org 177 North Church Ave. Suite 305, Tuscon, AZ 85701 (520) 623-2466
Note to self: check out catalina foothills district outside of Tuscon. stae of west v dept of ed. look for button on teacher 21 or some such thing. pwerful learning- george lucas education infomation something.
What a coincidence. This article just popped up in my ACSD SmartBrief- "States Press Ahead with 21st Century Skills"
2:30- 3:30 Concurrent Session 9
OMG!!!!!! Don't know what was going on with my wiki but all my notes for today were deleted. Thank goodness, there is a page history and I was able to revert to an earlier version and so was able to retrieve everything. What a blessing!
4:00- 5:00 Concurrent Session 10
Athademic: Using Sports to Close the Engagement Gap (Any academic discipline through sports)
The achievement gap is a result of the engagement gap. Make stuff relevant to kids through sports.
Presenter wanted to be a SI writer. Is an attorney and has found ways to write to his passion through social networking or work connections.
KQED: Out of the Park:The Physics of Baseball
ESPN article: Bolt showboating cost him time on WR.
Athademic Blog looking for input from teachers to see how these articles could be used as a lesson.
Neat idea and I look forward to exploring it further but I was a little disappointed to find that I was the one who was supposed to create the curriculum. This was a solicitation for ideas disguised as a presentation.
And then I remembered that I wanted to see Mouse Squad. I had spoken with Jan Half yesterday in the My Tech Desk presentation and she invited me to come by. Students had come to speak with us about their experience delivering tech support at their schools. It's a nice curriculum but quite pricey ($2500 to start and $2000/yr thereafter).
who is at 
Automation vs Amplification-
yesterday in the 
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