Regional consortium of Gifted Education professionals. Keynote presentation.

1. Three Rs and Four Cs for Digital Competence Elizabeth D. Holmes December 9, 2010

3. What skills will students need to thrive in a complex global economy?

4. How can our gifted educators prepare our students for their futures?

5. How will students acquire the digital competence needed to be successful in the workplace?Handout: The Three Rs and Four C’s

6. changes in job market

7. change As society embraces the tools of the age computersglobalization Agricultural Industrial Information Conceptual knowledge creators factory farmer farmers~craftsmen~manufacturers~white-collar~service~professionals~creators

8. Technologycan change the nature of work faster thanpeople can change their skills.

9. The problem is compounded when a nation’s educational system grows out of touch with job market trends.

10. How the demand for skills has changedEconomy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (US) Factory worker Specialized hand work Mean task input as percentiles of the 1960 task distribution Scripts computerized Expert thinking Complex communication (Levy and Murnane)

11. Routine Manual Tasks1970 – 2002 Physical tasks that use deductive or inductive rules.

12. Non-routine Manual Tasks1970 – 1990  Physical tasks that do not follow a set of rules. Requires skills and abilities that a computer cannot carry out.

13. Routine Cognitive Tasks1970 – 1980 -2002  Mental tasks that are completed by applying deductive or inductive rules.

14. How the demand for skills has changedEconomy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (US) Mean task input as percentiles of the 1960 task distribution The challenge for schools: Identify and teach the skills needed to support job market trends: Requires critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity The dilemma of schools: The skills that are easiest to teach and test are also the ones that are easiest to digitize, automate and outsource (Levy and Murnane)

15. changes in job market What are the implications for educating gifted students?

16. …a profound gap…

17. between the knowledge and skills students learn in school…

18. …and the skills needed in the global workplace.

19. Today’s school system faces irrelevance...

20. unless we bridge the gap…

21. between how students live…

22. …and how they learn.

23. what skills are needed?

24. The 3 RsReal, Relevant, Rigorous The 4 Cs Critical Thinking Communication Collaboration Creativity

25. Expert Thinking When a problem can’t be solved by rules, it is necessary to look for other solution methods. Expert Thinking is a collection of specific solution methods that varywith the problem at hand.

26. computer assisted Case-based Reasoning Pattern Recognition Tasks Requiring Expert Thinking Solving problems for which there are no rule-based solutions. Previous Solutions

28. Floorplan

30. Insulation?

32. computer assisted Tasks Requiring Complex CommunicationInteracting with humans to acquire, explain or to persuade others based on information.

33. Complex Communication in Context Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862

34. Problem: Interpret and apply key information in appropriate contexts popular media read, write web tools video conferencing chats and discussions social networking social bookmarking digital photosharing Print tool/content resources

35. Creativity is an essential skill needed to develop and sustain new occupations.

36. Tasks Requiring CreativityIt is impossible to imagine many of the new occupations that will exist in a decade. But we do know the skills these future occupations will require.

37. what skills are needed? What are the implications for educating gifted students?

38. the fundamental question

39. For what worldwill today's schools prepare our students? That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It, Ian Jukes

40. theagricultural age? 18th century …shaped our current school schedules

41. theindustrial age? 19th century …shaped our current instructional design

42. *AT RISK* theinformation age? 20th century VOKI …globalization shaped a demand for reform

43. conceptual age? entertainers musicians artists designers architects engineers scientists finance law healthcare economic function is to create new ideas, new technology, or new content educators creative class

44. preparing for expert thinking

45. unwired

46. wired transformers

47. coronation …empowered but not powerful Harold Edgarton, Stop-motion photography 1947

48. information and media literacy chaos systems thinking chaos visual literacy project planning and development communication skills problem solving flexibility and adaptability creating and innovating technology information critical thinking ethical behavior productivity and accountability initiative and direction interpersonal collaboration skills leadership and responsibility social/personal and cross cultural skills

49. isolated ~ connected

50. Communities already exist.. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook

51. Integrate 3 R’s Creativity Collaboration Critical Thinking Communication

52. organize abandonment

53. wired educators

54. preparing for expert thinking What are the implications for educating gifted students?

55. 2007

56. “Tough Choices or Tough Times” 2006

57. World market professionals available in a wide range of fields for a fraction of what U.S. professionals charge

58. Our young adults score at “mediocre” levels on the best international measure of performance Tough Choices or Tough Times

59. International Outcomes(8th Grade PISA Results in OECD Nations, 2006) Science Finland Canada Japan New Zealand Australia Netherlands Korea Germany United Kingdom Math Finland Korea Netherlands Switzerland Canada Japan New Zealand Belgium Australia U.S. is # 29 /40 top nations U.S. is # 35/40 top nations

60. Will the world’s employers pick U.S. graduates? only… 1.) if compete academically 2.) if exceed in creativity, innovative capacity and ability to learn quickly

61. Profile of successful workers top academic performance, creative and innovative. able to learn very quickly… Tough Choices or Tough Times

62. developing student competence

63. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

65. Numeracy

66. Problem-Solving in Technology Environments

67. Complex Communication*OECD

68. workplace needsGAPwhat school deliver

69. A World of Change – Higher Education Expenditure per student at tertiary level (USD) Cost per student Graduate supply Tertiary-type A graduation rate

70. A World of Change – Higher Education Expenditure per student at tertiary level (USD) Sweden United States Cost per student Finland Graduate supply Tertiary-type A graduation rate

71. A World of Change – Higher Education Expenditure per student at tertiary level (USD) Australia Finland United Kingdom Tertiary-type A graduation rate

72. A World of Change – Higher Education Expenditure per student at tertiary level (USD) Tertiary-type A graduation rate

73. A World of Change – Higher Education Expenditure per student at tertiary level (USD) Tertiary-type A graduation rate

74. A World of Change – Higher Education Expenditure per student at tertiary level (USD) Tertiary-type A graduation rate

75. A World of Change – Higher Education Expenditure per student at tertiary level (USD) Tertiary-type A graduation rate

76. A World of Change – Higher Education Expenditure per student at tertiary level (USD) Tertiary-type A graduation rate

77. A World of Change – Higher Education Expenditure per student at tertiary level (USD) United States Sweden Australia United Kingdom Finland Tertiary-type A graduation rate

78. Singapore, Finland, and South Korea have the top education systems in the world. These nations achieved this by recruiting the top one-third + graduates. Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

79. Shanghai Students World Champs on Science, Math, Reading Test Shanghai Students World Champs on Science, Math, Reading Test. U.S. trails much of industrialized world. December 7, 2010 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

80. Moving targetsFuture supply of college graduates

81. U.S. Scores on PISA and PIRLS Have Dropped Since 2000 (Program in International Student Assessment, Reading Literacy Study) Math 30th Science 23 Reading 15th December 7, 2010 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

82. New Context and Expectations Ability to communicate Adaptability to change Ability to work in teams Preparedness to solve problems Ability to analyze and conceptualize Ability to reflect on and improve performance Ability to manage oneself Ability to create, innovate and criticize Ability to engage in learning new things at all times Ability to cross specialist borders China Chris Wardlaw, "Mathematics in Hong Kong/China – Improving on Being First in PISA"

83. New Context and Expectations Use technology to: Engage learners by and tailoring tasks to needs and interests; Develop a new generation of assessments; Connect teachers with experts/resources; Build access to technology in/out of the classroom; Harness technology to increase district productivity and student achievement. USA 2010 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) Goals

84. developing student competence What are the implications for educating gifted students?

85. global project-based learning

86. References Galinski, E. (2010). Mind in the making. New York: Harper Studio. Levy, F. and Murnane, R. (2004 The New Division of Labor: How Computers are Creating the Next Job Market Princeton University Press. Levy, F. OECD Directorate for Education, Department of Urban Studies and Planning. (2010). How technology changes demands for human skills oecd education working paper (No. 45). Mass: Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. Schleicher, A (2010). Seeing your education system in the prism of international comparisons. Stockholm presentation, May 17. Slideshare.

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