Planning forDigital Learning

Regional School District #15

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Jonathan P. Costa, Sr.

The Mission

To prepare EVERY student

for learning, life,and work

in the 21st century.

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The world is changed…1.It is flat.2.It is digital.3.It is constantly

changing.4.It is increasingly

unforgiving to those who are unskilled.

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Think About Exponential Growth

• Since 1994 the number of web sites has grown from 5,000 to 250,000,000 (50,000 % increase)

• Distinct content pages now number in the trillions…

• Every day, Google handles about 6,200,000,000 page views and processes 20 petabytes of data.

• 275,000 words are typed every minute onto blogger

• Facebook has 1,000,000,000 active users

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In Less Than A Generation…• From isolation to

communication as the norm.

• From going out of your way to communicate to going out of your way not to.

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“Work will be dominated by fast-moving, geographically diverse, free-agent teams of workers connected via socially mediating technologies.”Fred Stutzman, Carnegie Mellon

“The replacement of memorization by analysis will be the biggest boon to society since the coming of mass literacy.” Paul Jones, UNC- Chapel Hill

“There is no doubt that brains are being rewired.” Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research

The BraveNew World

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The culture served by this model of teaching and learning is gone.

How Would You Answer?

What would an “open phone

test” look like?What happens

when everyone can get

anything from anywhere?

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Instruction Will/Should Change…

• Less paper, more pixels.• Less single source, more crowd source.

• Less routine, more personalization.

Instruction Will/Should Change…• Less compliance,

more engagement.• Less consuming,

more producing.• Less about how much,

more about how well.

Goals for

Learning

ProfessionalLearning

Assessment &

Evaluation

CurriculumResources

Instruction

Resource Deployment

Leadership