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EBest ICTPD Cluster
to infinity and beyond!
The Third WaveCarolyn Stuart, NZ Principal November 2006
Wave 1 – Introduction of computers into school offices.
Wave 2 – Falling prices of computers, computers in classrooms, status & debate.
Wave 3 – allowing learners to collaborate & connect using computers and web-enabled technology in a much less teacher-directed way.
Why do we need to change what we’ve always done?
We haven’t always done it…
...we’ve just been doing it for a long time.
What have we been doing?
The education system, as most of the current generation of educators have
experienced it, was designed to filter and select
Secondary
A teacher perspective
Teachers tend to have a focus on “teaching” rather than “learning”, and might say/believe things like. .
• Some students can learn, others can’t.
• “This student shouldn’t be in my class.”
• “If a student is not learning well it’s because they are not working hard enough or they are simply not bright enough.”
Subjects that did the most effective filtering job (using written exams) were accorded the highest status.
A student perspective
Students might say/believe things like. . .
• “I’m no good at . . . “
• “Some are born smart, others are not and there is nothing much you can do about it”.
The most exclusive professions tend to be considered the most worthwhile and there is an inclination to follow careers that they get the marks to get into rather than that for which they might have a sense of ‘vocation.’
The model of schooling that saw primary education as focusing on
helping students learn to read, write, do arithmetic and become
good citizens and secondary education as providing a
preparatory pathway for a University education was developed
at the end of the last century.Priorities & Challenges for the New Millennium- Atkin, 2000
We used to focus on…
Getting children ready for school
and now we need to focus on
…getting schools ready for children.
Why?
Catching the Knowledge Wave? The Knowledge Society and the future of education.
- Jane Gilbert
Gilbert pages 4-6
What’s changed?
Campbell Live
These changes do not represent the usual process of adding to and improving existing ideas: rather
they represent a paradigm shift – a radical break with the past that
requires us to stop and completely rethink much of what we do.
Paradigm Shifts -Information is Power
From what is…
Textbook as sourceTeacher as tellerFacts are primaryInformation is packaged
Assessment:Seat workTest scoresgrades
To what ought to be
Variety of media/sourcesTeacher as guide/coachQuestions are primaryInformation is discovered
Multivariable assessment:SynthesisApplicationStudents produceTeachers critiqueDemonstrationTest scores
Breivik, P.S. & Senn, J.A. (1998) Information Literacy: educating children for the 21st century. Washington, DC: NEA pp 24,59.
Web 1.0 Web 2.0 and now Web 3.0
DoubleClick --> Google AdSense
Ofoto --> Flickr
Akamai --> BitTorrent
mp3.com --> Napster
Britannica Online --> Wikipedia
personal websites --> blogging
evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation --> search engine optimization
page views --> cost per click
screen scraping --> web services
publishing --> participation
content management systems
--> wikis
directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness --> syndication
Creating with ICTUser created content…
Taking the Leap
Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
Gilbert – page -14-15
Digital Natives
Today’s students – Primary through to tertiary represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They
have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital
music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital
age.
2005 Kids
Digital Natives
•School, we power down for it
•Email is for old people
•Click it, get it
•We can get past the blocked sites
•Net Nazis!!!!
•Second Life is cool
Digital Immigrants
So what does that make the rest of us? Those of us who were not born into the
digital world but have, at some later point in our lives, become fascinated by and
adopted many or most aspects of the new technology are, and always will be
compared to them.
From: www.marcprensky.com
Our Digital Natives are 21st Century Learners
Everything, almost everything, is only a click away…information comes
directly to their phone, computer, PDA, iPod etc.
In a world of social software, how do we know what to teach?
Blogs
Wikis
Social Networks
Social Guides
Social Bookmarking
Virtual Worlds
Collaborative Real-time Editors
Peer-to-peer Internet Telephony
Second Life
Skype
Skrbl
Multi-modal Literacy
Gilbert (2005), argues that visual symbols –images, graphs, diagrams, symbols, gestures, 3D objects, and so on – are
becoming more important than print, and the screen is taking over from the book as
the main medium for representing and communicating ideas.
The world told or narrated, is very different from the world shown, or
depicted.
There are also other modes of representation – sounds, music,
movements, smells even – all of which are deployed in today’s meaning
systems.
Knowing how to behave when you
don’t know.
Habits of MindPersisting
Managing impulsivity
Listening to others – with understanding and empathy
Thinking flexibly
Thinking about our thinking (Metacognition)
Striving for accuracy and precision
Questioning and posing problems
Applying past knowledge to new situation
Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision
Gathering data through all senses
Creating, imagining and innovating
Responding with wonderment and awe
Taking responsible risks
Finding humour
Thinking interdependently
Learning continuously
Thinking
Using language,
symbols and texts
Relating to others
Managing self
Participating and
contributing
What do you think your children and the children in your care, need to learn?
What skills and competencies should they leave your school
with?
Brainstorm
Change our mental model about Knowledge
The shift in emphasis from knowledge to knowing is important. Knowing is a
process, whereas knowledge is a thing. Knowing is a verb. It involves doing
things and acting on things. It involves building relationships and connections.
What are other schools doing successfully?
• Underlying pedagogical focus• PD includes coaching & mentoring• PD includes accountabilities• Teachers demonstrate activities • Focus on learning outcomes• Evidence of student achievement • Reflect, review, refocus etc.• Learning community is active• Teachers and SM model the use of ICTs
What teachers can do now..• Work together more (your cluster is a good start)
• Think of new ways to timetable
• Develop their skills for working with students in small groups
• Engage students in real-world research projects (not just for the chosen few)
• Develop databases of community contacts
• Focus on developing systems level understanding (How do scientists know what they know? What are the limits of this knowledge? What can Science not tell us?
EBest
ICT ClusterApanui
Ohope Beach
Allandale
St Joseph’sParoa
James Street
When you are wandering through the school, what do you want to see?
Process
School as we know it.School as we know it.
EBest ICTPD Cluster
to infinity and beyond!