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Will Richardsonwill@willrichardson.com

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Abundant LearningFour Newish Ideas for Powerful Classrooms

Tuesday, June 25, 13

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Not about tools.Not step by step.

Not specific classroom examples.

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I’m wondering:

Are you at ISTE 2013 primarily to be a better teacher?

I’m wondering:

Are you at ISTE 2013 primarily to be a better teacher?

Or primarily to become a better learner?

“We can’t be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion.”

Margaret Wheatley

Turn to someone next to you and share your confusion.

What questions are you asking?

Scarcity

ABUNDANCETuesday, June 25, 13

Clash of Contexts

Traditional Learning(Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators)

Modern Learning(Kids with Access, Connected, Networked Learners)

Traditional Learning

Modern Learning

DeliveryVs

Traditional Learning

Modern Learning

Delivery

DiscoveryVs

Traditional LearningWhat you want me to learn.

Modern Learning

Traditional LearningWhat you want me to learn.

Modern LearningWhat I want to learn

Traditional LearningJust in case.

Modern Learning

Traditional LearningJust in case.

Modern LearningJust in time.

Information, knowledge and teachers are in abundant supply and ubiquitous.

NEW REALITY

That supply of knowledge and information is expanding and changing at a rate like never before.

ABUNDANCENEW REALITY

We cannot predict the impacts of technological advances on the future of learning and work.

A wide range of new skills and literacies will be required to navigate the future.

THE Key Shift:

NEW REALITY

Institutionally Organized World

Self-Organized World

...an agent to get a record deal?...a broker to buy stock?

...a publisher to write a book?...a journalist to report the news?

...a travel agent to book our flights?

Remember when we needed...

...an agent to get a record deal?...a broker to buy stock?

...a publisher to write a book?...a journalist to report the news?

...a travel agent to book our flights?

...a school to learn Algebra?

Remember when we needed...

Institutionally Organized Learning

Self-Organized Learning

THE Disruption

An abundance of content, knowledge, information, teachers,

and technologies shifts the balance of power for learning from the

school to the learner...

An abundance of content, knowledge, information, teachers,

and technologies shifts the balance of power for learning from the

school to the learner...

...whether we like it or not.

New Question:

If this is what our students now have access to...

...what is our new role?Tuesday, June 25, 13

New Question:

We don’t need school to be better.

We need school to be...

DIFFERENT

June 3, 1952Tuesday, June 25, 13

May 2, 1952

Moral of the Story

“Better” matters little if what people need and want is something else.

Which means we need to start thinking differently about what

happens in our classrooms.

3 Starting Points...

“Knowmadic” Learning

“Self-organized” Learning

knowmadsociety.com

“What is more important in today's education enterprise: creating kids who know a little about a lot, or developing kids who leverage knowledge to produce new ideas...

John Moravec

“...kids who can contextually apply ideas and expertise in various social and organizational configurations...”

John Moravec

“...kids who are highly motivated to collaborate, who are natural networkers, who purposively use new technologies to help them solve problems and transcend geographical limitations...”

John Moravec

“...kids who are open to sharing what they know, and who invite and support open access to information, knowledge and expertise from others...”

John Moravec

“...kids who can unlearn as quickly as they learn, adopt new ideas and practices as necessary, thrive in non-hierarchical networks and organizations...”

John Moravec

“...kids who can develop habits of mind and practice to learn continuously, and are not afraid to fail?”

John Moravec

New Reality

Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere

“School” is everywhere

atlas.edupunksguide.org/

codeacademy.com

duolingo.com

Top “Learning” Tools 2012

582 voteshttp://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/

Top “Learning” Tools 2012

582 voteshttp://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/

Self-organized learning

The question:

Are you a self-organized learner?

Design Thinking

"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Albert Einstein

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designthinkingforeducators.comTuesday, June 25, 13

“Design Thinking is the confidence that everyone can be part of creating a more desirable future, and a process to take action when faced with a difficult challenge. That kind

of optimism is well needed in education.”

designthinkingforeducators.com

Benefits:

Critical thinking, synthesis of informationEmpathy, deep curiosity, persistence

Ability to question assumptionsBrainstorming skills

Ability to shift one’s thinkingOpenness to new ideas

Failure as valuableAbility to take risks and create

Project management skills

...and more.

The question:

What real-world problem can you and your students design a solution

The Maker Movement

“We are at a turning point in human history–a rising tide of a culture of participation in global networks that open doors of which we humans have never dreamed. We must remember, “making” at its core, is about “teaching” kids to view the world (not just school) in a completely different way. It’s about empowerment and ownership of destiny. The ability to wonder and dream is great but realizing that one can “make something happen” is a very powerful thing.”

Pam Moran

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“Tinkering is a powerful form of learning and doing, an ethos shared by the rapidly expanding maker community and many educators. It celebrates the best of what it means to be human. One of the most endearing things about the maker movement is how many children are celebrated as heroes, leaders, and innovaters.”

Gary StagerSylvia Martinez

inventtolearn.com/resources/

The question:

What will you learn to “make” and share with your students?

Discussion

What changes in a world of self-organized learner designers and

makers?

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