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Bob Pearlman Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation

bobpearlman@mindspring.comhttp://www.bobpearlman.org

New Schools, New Learning

Birmingham, England

October 13, 2004

Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools:Reinventing the Secondary School Experience

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The BSF Opportunity….

Total UK Investment = £ 46 billion over 10 years

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School Opening for 2007-8

Construction 2006-7

Physical design 2005-6

Educational Design by ……

The BSF Challenge….

Is BSF a Construction Program or an Educational Program?

Are we being asked to spend money before we know what to do?

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Some say if you get the design right, then the education will follow???

The BSF Danger….

Will the new BSF Schools just be Old Wine in New Bottles?

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Your High School, 1964-- ???

Where were you in 1964?

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Penncrest High School, Media, PA

9th grade houseFlexibility to adapt to departmental or team structureFlexible classrooms that can be adapted to different instructional usesCommunity CenterCapacity 1600

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Constructivist LearningBlock ScheduleProfessional CommunityProfessional Development CenterThe Learning CenterProject Rooms in every wingOpen public ceremonial space

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UK Educational White Papers lack vision of:

•21st Century Learning

•ICT as Tool and Infrastructure for 21st Century Learning

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• enquiry

• problem solving

• creativity

• information processing

• reasoning

• evaluation

• personal, emotional and social skills

The Primary National Strategy moves this thinking on by articulating 7 aspects of learning:

But Why and How?

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Dongguan

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Dongguan•7 million people. Grew from less than 1 million in 1979

•15,000 International Companies

•25,000 companies total -- 10,000 of them are computer related manufacturers, representing 40% of all international computer part market

•Ranked 7th in overall municipal competitiveness in China •Ranked 3rd in goods exported, behind Shanghai and Shenzhen

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Bangalore

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Bangalore•Silicon Valley of India

•7.2 million people, 5th largest city in India (+ 1 billion people)

•86% literacy

•1154 IT SW companies in 2003, up from 29 in 1993

•116 new SW technology part units established in 2002-3Top Ten SW Exporters, 2002-03:

Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Wipro Ltd.

IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Digital Global Soft. Ltd.

I-Flex Solutions Ltd.

Texas Instruments

Cisco Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Mphasis BFL Ltd.

Philips Software Centre

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Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004

Globalization 1.0

From the late 1800's to World War I, was driven by falling transportation costs, thanks to the steamship and the railroad. shrank the world from a size large to a size medium.

Globalization 2.0

From the 1980's to 2000, was based on falling telecom costs and the PC, and shrank the world from a size medium to a size small.

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Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004

Globalization 3.0 Produced by three forces:

•Massive installation of undersea fiber-optic cable and bandwidth (thanks to the dot-com bubble) that have made it possible to globally transmit and store huge amounts of data for almost nothing.

•Second, the diffusion of PC's around the world.

•Third, the convergence of a variety of software applications — from e-mail, to Google, to Microsoft Office, to specially designed outsourcing programs — that, when combined with all those PC's and bandwidth, made it possible to

create global "work-flow platforms."

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What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st Century?

“Will this generation of learners have the skills and preparation to innovate?”

-- Barry Schuler, Former CEO, AOL

At NTHS Founder’s Day Event

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SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991)Competencies – effective workers can productively use: •Resources -- identifying, organizing, planning, and allocating time, money, materials, and workers; •Interpersonal Skills -- negotiating, exercising leadership, working with diversity, teaching others new skills, serving clients and customers, and participating as a team member; •Information Skills -- using computers to process information and acquiring and evaluating, organizing and maintaining, and interpreting and communicating information; •Systems Skills -- understanding systems, monitoring and correcting system performance, and improving and designing systems; and •Technology utilization skills -- selecting technology, applying technology to a task, and maintaining and troubleshooting technology.

Source: What Work Requires of School, 1991, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U.S. Department of Labor

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SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991)The Foundation – competence requires: •Basic Skills -- reading, writing, speaking, listening, and knowing arithmetic and mathematical concepts;

•Thinking Skills -- reasoning, making decisions, thinking creatively, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, and knowing how to learn; and •Personal Qualities -- responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity, and honesty.

 

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Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

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Working in the Real World (i.e. California?)

•Projects, projects, projects

•Teamwork and collaboration

•Self-direction

•Interpersonal skills and Networking

•No one asks about your formal education

•Project Management, Leadership

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http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

Released June 21, 2004 at NECC, New Orleans

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So what do schools look like where students get 21st Century Knowledge and Skills?

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Teachers talk and students listen.

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Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools The teacher has a monopoly on information

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Students learn by not doing

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How do we get them here?

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Strategies that Make a Difference

EngagementHands-onAdult connectionsInternshipsReal World immersion

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New Technology High SchoolNapa, California

http://www.newtechhigh.org/

Integrating technology into every class

Interdisciplinary and project-based

Internship class consisting of classroom curriculum and unpaid work in technology, business or education

Digital Portfolio

http://www.newtechfoundation.org/nthlearning.html

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New Technology HS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• TECHNOLOGY LITERACY

• COLLABORATION

• CRITICAL THINKING

• ORAL COMMUNICATION

• WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

• CAREER PREPARATION

• CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS• CURRICULAR LITERACY

(CONTENT STANDARDS)

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Napa

Vallejo

Rohnert Park

Novato

Sacramento

Oakland (conversion)

Davis

Anderson

REPLICATION PROGRESS

Anchorage (AK)

Portland (OR)

New Orleans

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At the core is a student centered, project and problem based

teaching strategy that is tied to both content standards and

school wide learning outcomes.

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PROJECT BASED LEARNINGPBL vs. Doing Projects

The Project is the Curriculum

Creating a “Need to Know”

Teacher Acts as a Coach

Focus on Skills (ESLRs)

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Project Management

Teamwork

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Oral Communication/Presentation

Exhibition

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Schools as Workplaces for 21st Century Students

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Make BSF an Educational Program, not a Construction Program!

•Educators need to write the Educational Specifications for the New Builds!

•Start pilots of the New Learning Environments (Rich Tasks, PBL) Now!

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NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLStudy Tours and Visits

http://www.newtechfoundation.org

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Bob Pearlmanbobpearlman@mindspring.org

http://www.bobpearlman.org