The 4 C’s The Non-Cogs Internet Era

Skills

Play, experimentation, iteration

 "Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.”

Seth Godin,Poke the Box

 Touring the contemporary

educational landscape

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@JonathanEMartin

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http://marshmallowchallenge.com

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We need an iterative and collaborative approach to align learning with fast

changing times.

How can we help our students be Kindergartners, not MBA students?

http://www.justsaypictures.com/im-looking-for-the-mouse.html

Now we will just assume that media includes the possibilities of consuming, producing, and sharing side by side, and that those possibilities are open to everyone.  How else would you do it?

Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus

Cognitive Processes & Strategies

Knowledge

Creativity & Innovation

Intellectual Openness

Teamwork & Collaboration

Work Ethic Positive Self-Eval

Leadership

Knowledge

Determination

Compassion

Curiosity

Communication

The 4 C’s The Non-Cogs Internet Era

Skills

Play, experimentation, iteration

Critical Thinking

Creativity & Innovation

Communication

Collaboration

When the goal is to prepare students to be able to be successful in solving new problems and adapting to new situations, then deeper learning is called for.

Calls for such “21st century skills” as innovation, creativity, and creative problem-solving can also be seen as calls for deeper learning—

helping students develop transferable knowledge that can be applied to solve new problems or respond effectively to new situations. P. 71

21st. C. assessmentsPISA, CWRA, Grit, Growth Mindset

How do they assess “deeper learning?”

What are the opportunities they suggest for enhancing the teaching and learning of the Cate Educational Principles?

PISA test question answers:

tinyurl.com/samplepisaanswers

Growth Mindset

Teamwork & Collaboration

Grit & Perseverance

TEACHING ADOLESCENTS TO BECOME LEANERS http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/publications/teaching-adolescents-become-learners-role-noncognitive-factors-shaping-school

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Angela Duckworth Ted Talk

http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit.html

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ResearchIn one study, Blackwell and her colleagues followed hundreds of students making the transition to 7th grade.

They found that students with a growth mindset were more motivated to learn and exert effort, and outperformed those with a fixed mindset in math—a gap that continued to increase over the two-year period.

Those with the two mindsets had entered 7th grade with similar past achievement, but because of their mindsets their math grades pulled apart during this challenging time.

(Blackwell, L.S., Trzesniewski, K.H., & Dweck, C.S. (2007). Implicit theories of intelligence predict achievement across an adolescent transition: A longitudinal study and an intervention. Child Development, 78. 246-263, Study 1.)

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Play, Experimentation, & Iteration

In the new culture of learning, digital media learning environments provide access to a rich source of information and play

http://video.pbs.org/video/1767466213/

John Seely Brown on the future of learning:

Essential qualities of Innovators:

1. Curiosity2. Collaboration3. Associative

thinking4. Bias toward action

& experimentation

Play Passion Purpose

Seven Strategies for Innovation1. Be opportunistic

2.Take Time to Mess Around3.Learn to Fail4. Think in Metaphors5. Go to Extremes

6.Look for Crossroads7.Stand on Other’s Shoulders8.Provide the Time & Space9.Employ Design Thinking

*TEDx

Fab Lab and design-build course

Information Literacy

Attention & Self-Regulation

Connected Learning

Digital Citizenship

Internet Era Skills

In these digital environments, people share interests, developed passions, engaged imagination, participated & experimented .

Connectivism

Connectivism was introduced as a theory of learning based on the premise that knowledge exists in the world rather than in the head of an individual.

Connectivism proposes a perspective similar to the Activity theory of Vygotsky as it regards knowledge to exist within systems which are accessed through people participating in activities.

wikipedia

At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections,

and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.

Stephen Downes

xMooc vs. cMooc: What is the argument about and what does the debate reveal?

Steven Johnson video, Where Good Ideas Come From

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

Twenty-first century readers and writers need to

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

Connected Learning for Students

1. Connect students and teachers inside the classroom

2. Publish teacher and student work locally and globally

3. Connect teachers and students outside the classroom

4. Connect with Experts around the world.

5. Collaborate with others to share and create knowledge.

Key Literacies:

attention “crap detection,” participation & contribution, 

When it comes to interacting with the world of always-on information, the fundamental skill, on which other essential skills depend, is the ability to deal with distraction without filtering out opportunity. Rheingold, Net Smart

An antidote to our epidemic distraction lies in a set of astonishing discoveries: attention can be understood, strengthened, and taught.

If focus skills can be groomed, the important next question is whether, and how, attention should be integrated into education.

Instead of complaining about the problem of distraction, we need to teach the skills and habit of attention.

Meditation, prayer, walk in the woods Sustained silent reading, (art or writing) Goal-setting, (SMART goals) Study Skills, prioritizing, calendaring

Information Literacy

“The heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default. Don’t refuse to believe; refuse to start out believing.” Howard Rheingold

By engaging in knowledge or media production, you tend to develop a much more sophisticated understanding of how knowledge and media is produced more generally. Mimi Ito quoted in Rheingold

Open Computer Testing

Students should be Contributors in the Digital Age - how can we help students to leave a legacy for their own sake, and for the good of others?

Ferriter Kiva Project

Critical Thinking & Problem-solving

Knowledge

Creativity & Innovation

Growth Mindset

Teamwork & Collaboration

Determination

Attention and Self Regulation

Compassion

Curiosity

Digital Citizenship

Communication

Play, Experimentation, & Iteration

Grit

Info. Literacy

Connected Learning