Retooling your Math Classes

for the 21st Century

Traditional view of knowledge

Learners are empty vessels to be filled

Humorhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WMi5TUJDso

21st C Skills

Why?

Today information is changing so rapidly its hard to see what’s happening

The Digital Native…

Who are these 21st Century Learners?

Who are these 21st Century Learners?

Who are these 21st Century Learners?

Who are these 21st Century Learners?

Who are these 21st Century Learners?

Who are these 21st Century Learners?

21st Century Learner Profile

Data from Kaiser Family Foundation Study, 2005Speak Up 2006 (www.tomorrow.org)

Students’ #1 request regarding technology use at their schools

Relax school rules about email, IM, cell phone and online use

21st Century Learner Profile

Data from Kaiser Family Foundation Study, 2005Speak Up 2006 (www.tomorrow.org)

Favorite communications device (K-12)?Cell phone (73% in grades 9-12 use a cell phone daily)

21st Century Learner Profile

Data from Kaiser Family Foundation Study, 2005Speak Up 2006 (www.tomorrow.org)

Percentage of middle schoolers who have online friends from other schools, states or countries?

54%

• Make Phone Calls

• Send Text Messages

• Download Music

• Play Music

• Surf the Web

• Take Photos

• Send Photos

• Play Games

Our StudentsThis is just the start...

TrendsHorizon Report 2007

Key trends affecting higher education

– One year or less

• Social Networking

• User-Created Content

– Two-Three Years

• Mobile Phones

• Virtual Worlds

TrendsHorizon Report 2007

Key trends affecting higher education

–Four-Five Years

•New Scholarship and

Emerging Forms of

Publication

•Massively Multiplayer

Educational Gaming

TrendsHorizon Report 2007

Key trends affecting higher education

Realizations

For what world should today's schools be designed to prepare our students?

For what world should today's schools be designed to prepare our students?

For what world should today's schools be designed to prepare our students?

For what world should today's schools be designed to prepare our students?

For what world should today's schools be designed to prepare our students?

For what world should today's schools be designed to prepare our students?

For what world should today's schools be designed to prepare our students?

Educational Implications

Create relevant learning opportunities

http://www.learner.org/interactives/dailymath/index.html

Create authentic opportunitiesfor problem solving

Learning Requires Reflection

Learning vs Testing

Learning to Fly

it’s not about searching it’s about finding new ways of applying

knowledge and creating

It is easier to change the location of a cemetery than to change the school curriculum.

Woodrow Wilson

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,

unlearn, and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler

!e Medium is the Message

What new medium are you using in your classroom to change your message?

The Bottom Line

The value is in the content and how you use it.

Not in the technology itself.

Building as we go