Information, knowledge and teachers are in abundant supply and ubiquitous. The supply of knowledge and information and teachers is expanding and changing at a rate like never before. 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.
Influencing policy (training slides from Fast Track Impact)
Rethinking Education for a World of Self-Directed Learners
1. rethinking education
in a world of ubiquitously networked, self-directed learners and makers
Will Richardson
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4. “We can’t be
creative if we
refuse to be
confused.
Change always
starts with
confusion.”
~Margaret Wheatley
“Willing to be Disturbed”
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8. This is the most
disruptive moment
ever in education.
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9. But, this is also the
most amazing time
to be a learner.
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10. Schools are the
most important
institutions
in our communities.
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11. But, schools and educators need to be
“different”
not “better.”
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12. We can
no longer want
for our kids
the same education
that we ourselves had.
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13. Generally, our understanding of the
potentials of computing and online
connections to learn deeply is
dangerously inadequate.
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28. “The change we
are in the middle
of isn’t
minor...and it
isn’t optional.”
~Clay Shirky
NYU
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29. ABUNDANCE
5 Billion App Downloads
2.5 Billion People
2 Trillion Webpages
5 Years of YouTube video per minute
Est. 1 billion photos uploaded each day 2014
5 Years of all IP video per second
100,000 Tweets per minute
12 Billion Internet Connected Devices by 2015
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42. A world marked by “ubiquitous
computing, ubiquitous information,
ubiquitous networks, at unlimited
speed, about everything,
everywhere, from anywhere, on all
kinds of devices that make it
ridiculously easy to connect,
organize, share, collect,
collaborate and publish.”
~Michael Wesch
Kansas State U.
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43. ...A world marked by “ubiquitous
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speed, about everything,
everywhere, from anywhere, on all
kinds of devices that make it
ridiculously easy to connect,
organize, share, collect,
collaborate and publish.”
School?
~Michael Wesch
Kansas State U.
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57. The supply of knowledge
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58. We cannot predict
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59. A wide range of
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65. Remember when we needed...
...a travel agent to book our flights?
...A Dealer to buy or sell a car?
...a broker to buy stock?
...a publisher to write a book?
...a journalist to report the news?
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69. Remember when we needed...
...a travel agent to book our flights?
...A Dealer to buy or sell a car?
...a broker to buy stock?
...a publisher to write a book?
...a journalist to report the news?
...a school to learn algebra?
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106. “MIT wants to attract students that are ‘already solving
problems and building, playing and creating, engaging in
projects they love doing.’”
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107. In an abundant, self-organized world...
...literacy changes
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108. “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
Author
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109. NCTE Literacies
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems
collaboratively and cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global communities to meet a
variety of purposes
• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of
simultaneous information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex
environments
bit.ly/nctelit
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110. In an abundant, self-organized world...
...school is everywhere.
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132. Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of
Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U. of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.
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133. Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of
Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U. of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.
“This is the tsunami.”
--Richard DeMillo, Ga. Tech
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141. In an abundant, self-organized world...
...work is no longer predictable.
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142. “If you’re talking 100
years, there’s no doubt in
my mind that all jobs will
be gone, including creative
ones. And 100 years is not
far in the future — some
of our children will be
alive in 100 years.”
~Hod Lipson
Cornell
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184. “In times of change,
learners inherit the
Earth, while the learned
find themselves
beautifully equipped to
deal with a world that no
longer exists.”
~Eric Hoffer
“The True Believer”
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