A 21st Century Education

Traditional classroom model

We get a lot of this...

and some of this...

but very little of this...

Source: Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University

But what if this was our classroom...

What prevents this from happening? 

Tremendous amount of constraint in education

Kids lives are filled with constantly changing pieces

Schools

Classes

Interests

Extracurriculars

Grade Levels

FriendsBoyfriends

Clothing Style

Music

Girlfriends

Food

Entertainment

Responbilities

ExpectationsAuthoritative Figures

A Vision of Students Today (mwesch)

Complete 49% of readings assigned -- only 26% of which were deemed relevant to

life 

Will read 8 books, 2,300 Web pages,and 1,281 Facebook profiles per year

 Will write 42 pages for class

and 500 pages of email

A Day in the Life of a Student Today...

7 hours sleeping1.5 hours watching TV

3.5 hours online2.5 hours listening to

music2 hours talking on the cell

phone3 hours in class2 hours eating2 hours work3 hours study

  

 26.5 hours

Did You Know 3.0• The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004

 • Today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38 (US Dept

of Labor) • 1 in 4 workers have been with their current employer for less

than a year • 200 million registers users in MySpace, 5th largest country in

world • 31 billion Google searches per month

 • 4 exabytes (4.0 x 10^19) of unique information will be

generated each year • By 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational

capabilities of the entire human species

Social media depends on interactions between people as the discussion and

integration of words builds shared-meaning (source: netlingo.com)

Social Media - so·cial me·dia - \ˈsō-shəl ˈmē-dē-ə\- noun - Internet-based tools for sharing and discussing information

Social media is an educational tool

IncorporateWeb 2.0projects

Generate content

on Moodle

Connect and Network

Students need to take ownership

over their educations

Creativity provides leadership for the community

 

Watch podcasts on TED.com

Follow experts on Twitter

Connect with Skype & iChat

Join a workgroup online

Work with your teacher and create a Ning or Wiki for a topic

Make a Voicethread for study sessions

Rethink Knowledge

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