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21st Century Learning
21st Century Learning
Summer ConferenceAugust 12-14, 2009Canmore, Alberta
Sharon Friesen, PhD
OverviewOverviewOverviewOverview
n 21st Century Realities
n Changes in the work place
n Advances in digital technologies
n Global connections
n Changes in our understanding of learning
n Implications For Leaders
n Effective leadership practices
n Arenas for change
2121stst Century Realities Century Realities2121stst Century Realities Century Realities
n Changes in the work place
n Advances in digital technologies
n Global connections
n Changes in our understanding of learning
Requirements for Requirements for Participation in Today’s Participation in Today’s
Society Society
Requirements for Requirements for Participation in Today’s Participation in Today’s
Society Society n Strong disciplinary knowledge – deep
conceptual understanding of complex concepts.
n Work creatively with concepts to generate new ideas, new theories, new products and new knowledge – the capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and phenomena.
n Critically evaluate what is read.
n Express ideas and thoughts verbally and in writing using a variety of media.
n Connect and integrate ideas from a variety of disciplines turning that into usable knowledge -- the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others.
n Respectful – awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups.
n Self directed – learn how to learn.
n Ethical – Pondering the nature of your work in relationship to needs of the society in which you live.
Advances in Digital Advances in Digital TechnologiesTechnologies
Advances in Digital Advances in Digital TechnologiesTechnologies
Instantaneously Connected Instantaneously Connected GloballyGlobally
Instantaneously Connected Instantaneously Connected GloballyGlobally
Changes In Our Changes In Our Understanding Of LearningUnderstanding Of Learning
Changes In Our Changes In Our Understanding Of LearningUnderstanding Of Learning
CEA What Did You Do In School CEA What Did You Do In School Today Today
FIRST YEAR FINDINGSFIRST YEAR FINDINGS
CHALLENGE
High
Low
High
Low SKILLS
Students likely to feel apprehensive or anxious about learning
Students likely to feel apathetic towards
learning
Students may find school work boring or of little relevance
Students feel interested and successful
25% 37%
5% 33%
Willms, Friesen & Milton, 2009
CANADA
CANADA
2121stst Century Learning Century Learning EnvironmentsEnvironments
2121stst Century Learning Century Learning EnvironmentsEnvironments
Bransford, Brown & Cocking, 2000
Learning Changes The BrainLearning Changes The BrainLearning Changes The BrainLearning Changes The Brain
MINDSMINDS
Text
Example: The Practice of Example: The Practice of ScienceScience
Example: The Practice of Example: The Practice of ScienceScience
Collaborative Knowledge Collaborative Knowledge BuildingBuilding
Collaborative Knowledge Collaborative Knowledge BuildingBuilding
P2P: Untapped Potential
P2P: Untapped Potential
Technologies For Technologies For Knowledge BuildingKnowledge Building
Technologies For Technologies For Knowledge BuildingKnowledge Building
Digital Technologies and Digital Technologies and 2121stst Century Learning Century Learning
Digital Technologies and Digital Technologies and 2121stst Century Learning Century Learning
Scaffolding is ImportantScaffolding is ImportantScaffolding is ImportantScaffolding is Important
Sawyer, 2006; Greeno, 2006
Assessment For Learning is Assessment For Learning is EssentialEssential
Assessment For Learning is Assessment For Learning is EssentialEssential
for student learning
Formative AssessmentFormative AssessmentFormative AssessmentFormative Assessment
Intervention Extra Months of Learning Gained Per Year
Classroom Cost per Year
Class-size reduction by 30% (30 students to 20 students)
3 $30,000
Formative assessment
6 to 9 $3,000Wiliam, 2007
Instructional Practices Matter
Instructional Practices Matter
1 2 3 4
Engagement Disengaged Ritualistic Compliance
Academic Engagement
Intellectual Engagement
Cognitive Investment
Passive – copying notes, info recall
Some group work Active information play
Academically rigourous knowledge building
Instructional Style Instructionist – one size fits all
Interactive Differentiated Responsive - conforms to learners
Authenticity No value beyond activity
Some attempt at application
Application beyond school
Value beyond school
Improving InstructionImproving InstructionImproving InstructionImproving Instruction
The quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers. World’s Best Performing School Systems, 2008.
World’s Best Performing School Systems, 2008.
(Leithwood et al, 2007)
Leadership MattersLeadership Matters
Leadership is second only to teaching and learning in its impact on student learning
Leading 21st Century Learners
Leading 21st Century Learners
Participating in teacher learning and development.
0.91
Leading teachers to base teaching decisions on formative evaluations
0.90
Planning, coordinating and evaluating teaching, curriculum and pedagogy (direct involvement, regularly visiting classrooms, formative feedback and feed forward) .
0.74
Ensuring teachers are intellectually stimulated about current research informed practices .64
0.64
Strategic resourcing, (aligning resource selection and allocation
0.60
Actively challenge status quo 0.60
Establishing goals and expectations
0.54
Maintaining an orderly supportive environment
0.49
Elmore, 2006; Friesen & Jacobsen, 2009; Hattie, 2009; Leithwood, 2007;
Marzano, 2006
Change for 21Change for 21stst Century Century LearningLearning
Conditions of learning
and teaching for students and adults
Competencies of adults
Improving
Teaching and
Learning
Culture of
classrooms,
schools, districts
Shared values, beliefs,
assumptions,
expectations, &
behaviors.
External “architectur
e” that influences
student learning and the ability to
improve student learning.
Skills and knowledge that impact
and influence student learning.
Wagner, 2008
2121stst Century Learning Century Learning2121stst Century Learning Century Learningn Authentic to disciplinary ways of knowing,
doing and being.
n Discipline and interdisciplinary-based inquiry
n Collaborative knowledge building
n Scaffolded
n Oodles of formative assessment
n Teaching and learning decisions are based on evidence
n Digital technologies are part of the culture of how we do things around here
Outcome: 21Outcome: 21stst Century Century LearnersLearners
Outcome: 21Outcome: 21stst Century Century LearnersLearners
n Strong disciplinary knowledge – deep conceptual understanding of complex concepts.
n Work creatively with concepts to generate new ideas, new theories, new products and new knowledge – the capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and phenomena.
n Critically evaluate what is read.
n Express ideas and thoughts verbally and in writing using a variety of media.
n Connect and integrate ideas from a variety of disciplines turning that into usable knowledge -- the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others.
n Respectful – awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups.
n Self directed – learn how to learn.
n Ethical – Pondering the nature of your work in relationship to needs of the society in which you live.