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Transcript of Christopher Dede- Big Ideas
Overcoming Barriers
to Transformation
Bette Manchester and Chris Dede
Big Ideas, June 2010
Challenges
Outdated assessments drive teaching practices
Multiple expectations from policymakers often derail educators from sustaining a clear focus on learning
State and country leader distribute tools, but take no responsibility for policies around learning
Leadership at school, state, federal level:Knowledge of systemic change, learning goals
Common issues across the world
Distributed Education
The formal educational system extends beyond the school: in time, in space, and in people
Parent tutors, informal-educator coaches, and community mentors complement teachers
Schools of education prepare and certify teachers, tutors, coaches, and mentors
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U.S. 2010 Educational Tech Plan
1. Learning2. Assessment 3. Teaching4. Infrastructure5. Productivity
http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010
Many Mobile Devices…beyond 1-1
1976 2010
Core Principles ofProfessional Development
Teachers teach as they were taught The important issue is not
technology usage, but changes in content, pedagogy, assessment, and learning outside of school
Continuous peer learning is the best strategy for long-term improvement
Professional Development:
Communities of “Unlearning” Developing fluency in using
emerging interactive media Complementing presentational
instructionwith collaborative inquiry-based learning
Unlearning almost unconscious assumptions and beliefs and values about the nature of teaching, learning, and schooling
“Imprinted” with the industrial-era school
“Sea Change”
Evolution, Transformation, or Disruption
In Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” Ariel sings to Ferdinand:Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fadeBut doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.
Disruptive Innovation Theory
Why Successful Companies Go Out of Business Sustaining innovations are incremental
improvementsin a product
Disruptive innovations offer a new product initially notas effective as what is currently sold, but immediately meeting a specialized need (alternative is non-consumption) and potentially better in the long-run
Over time, the disruptive product drives outthe standard product (e.g., mini-computers)
Transformation via Disruption
Disrupting Class Christensen, Horn, & Johnson, 2008
My Altered Version Schooling is the sustaining innovation
(based on industrial model) Customization is the disruptive
innovation(e.g., individual human tutors and the 2-sigma effect)
Customization in online learning is the initial product that competes against non-consumption
Inclusive, customized learning – based on much more distributed “teaching” – is the innovationthat forces schooling to adapt