On 4.22, Springside sent a small team to the Apple sponsored ReThink. Reimagine. Redefine. A Tour of 21st-Century Learning Conference. While the conference wasn't groundbreaking, and much of it was old news but it did offer a few key takeaways. Below are notes from the seminar.
Instantaneous communication Txtin youtube flickr facebook Web 2.0- where we are headed
PSU teaching classes through facebook
Digital content --- feedback 2 students
TIME Magazine how to build a student 4 the 21st century 2006
Tony Wagner from Harvard 21st century skills comparison (Dede's colleague)
- Global competition is a part of our students' future
- Everyone should read Dan Pink & The World is Flat
- In the 80s there were 25 million skilled workers in japan
- Now 300 million in China India Russia
- # college grads (over 3 million in china and in India) 1.3 million in US
- STEM US = 7th out of 8 G8 countries
- Finland = #1 educated country (way down list 5 years ago) Not sure of the metric used for this??
- Now...uniqutous information
- Txt messages sent everyday exceed the population of our planet (>8 billion txts sent/day) I send my 2,000 month!
- How r kids communicating? (2.7 billion searches this month on google alone)
- Workplace inovation
- Is ur school innovating everyday? How??
- Many jobs 10-14 in careers that don't even exist yet. (SF event---
- young people working in jobs that didnt exist 5 years ago...new paralegal, image archivist, creature animation artist,etc...)
- Nanotech, new media, etc...
- What will 10 years from now look like? How do we prepare? What should school look like?
Instantaneous communication Txtin youtube flickr facebook Web 2.0- where we are headed
PSU teaching classes through facebook
Digital content --- feedback 2 students
TIME Magazine how to build a student 4 the 21st century 2006
Tony Wagner from Harvard 21st century skills comparison (Dede's colleague)
http://21stcenturyskills.org/documents/21st_century_skills_curriculum_and_instruction.pdf
Recent graduates talk about skills they need but didn't get in high school
Recent graduates talk about skills they need but didn't get in high school
- How 2 work in teams-one skill 21st century workers didnt get in school (according to SF event)
- Working across diciplines
- Use themes across disciplines (rethinking math education example)
- Initiative n leadership
- Interacting with multimedia
- Flat organizations
- Complex communication and expert decision making
How 2 leverage technology to be creative and solve problems...ISTE NETS
Does your learning include?
- Creating?
- Distributing?
- Accessing?
- Collaborating?
- And are you doing it globally?
U of South Florida use of iTunes on K12
NYC public library now on iTunesU - beyond campus section-----Using sports
to teach physics----why 1:1 is key, without it, can't extend classroom
Do we bring Brent/Apple back to springside to present to faculty?? (like he did for Admin Team in '07)
Get apple stuff working now!!! iChat, desktop sharing, ease of server access, etc...share with faculty!
Alan November, Will Richardson, Ian Jukes, Don Leau, + our workshops
Apple Learning Interchange Global classrooms...how do we partner/find/connect with
them??
Need all of our community to be tech savvy. We need professional development tied into our everyday, into our schedule, into our professional lives to become a learning community with tech.
Librarian put $$$ aside each year 2 fund iPhoto projects
iChat theatre
Pete DiDonato's iPhone
Director of Technology
Springside School
www.springside.org