Asks 3 important questions: 1. How has the digital revolution changed society? 2. What has it done to the ways in which people access and process information? 3. How do educators adapt to these new modes of learning?

1. The Changing Nature of
Education in the Digital Age
Sam Gliksman
samgliksman@gmail.com
Twitter: @samgliksman
http://ipadEducators.ning.com

2. About Sam Gliksman
 Director of Educational Technology, New Community Jewish
HS
 Educational Technology Consultant
 Published author
 Working with 1:1 and BYOD programs
 Founder of iPads in Education website
http://iPadEducators.ning.com
 Twitter: @samgliksman
 Email: samgliksman@gmail.com

3. Pivotal Questions
1. How has technology changed society?
2. In what ways is it altering how we all
learn?
3. How do educators adapt to learning
needs in the digital age?

4. 1. How is technology changing society?

5. What were you
doing?

6. 1995: Bill Clinton, Eric Clapton … ?
Movies
Most popular TV
show?
Popular new cars
Popular
music?
Blues Traveller

13. What do they all have in common
…?

14. So? Businesses close all the time…
These were market leaders for
ENTIRE INDUSTRIES … that
simply became obsolete
―overnight‖
… because they failed to
recognize and adjust to a
rapidly evolving marketplace

15. My Concern
Are schools frozen delivering an obsolete
education --preparing students for a society that no
longer exists?

16. We’re at a critical crossroads…
Questioning the value of education:
• Employers complain graduates lack skills
• Training for employment that changes or becomes
totally redundant
• Lack of technology in schools
• Alternatives abound: The Internet offers online
schools and self-education options

18. Technology alone is NOT the answer
… not if we simply use it to reinforce the same
models of education that we’ve been using for 100
years
• teacher-centered
• content driven
• memorization
• rote drills
• one-size-fits-all

19. Doing the same old things ―better‖ isn’t working.
We need new visions of education.

20. What are our educational goals?

21. A simple math problem … ―Find X‖
It’s all about CONTEXT

22. We are preparing children for life in society after school

23. http://www.gamersmint.com
CHANGE

24. What technologies did people use when you were a
kidthat no longer exist today?
…

25. Visual
media
Audio
Communication
s

26. ―Change‖ is not a new concept

27. It’s the SPEED OF CHANGE
that just takes your breath away

28. Computing power
1969? Today’s washing machine has more
memory and computing power than all NASA's
computing resources when it first landed man on the
moon
(The Guardian, July 1, 2009)

29. Capacity to store information
Price of 1 gigabyte of memory in 1981?
$300,000
Price of 1 gigabyte in 2012?
10 cents

30. Ubiquity… it’s everywhere
Anyone have a cell
phone?
80% of US teens
have a cell phone.

31. Connected – Social Networking
• Facebook didn’t exist prior to 2004
• Today, almost 1 out of every 7 people on the
planet has a Facebook page

32. Life in the Digital Age…
None existed 10
years ago
What will you
―need‖ 10 years
from now?

33. If context is important… are we preparing students
for their futures?
Children starting elementary school today
will graduate in 2024
What will the world look like in 2024?
How do we educate and prepare children
for a world we don’t know anything about?

34. ―In times of change, learners inherit the
Earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world
that no longer exists‖
— Eric Hoffer

35. 65% of today’s grade school children may
end
up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet
―Now You See It‖, Cathy Davidson

36. Evolution of the office

37. Can you date this classroom?

38. 2. How has technology changed the ways children
absorb and process information?

41. Exposure to Technology
 Neuroplasticity: Theory is now that brain
constantly adapts to external stimuli
 Children’s brains today develop very
differently than ours.

42. How Much Technology?
 Constantly ―plugged in‖. They’ve never known a world
without technology and Internet.
 Combined technology use averages around 50+ hours a
week.
 Annually, comes to TWICE the time they spend in classes.
 TEN times more than time spent reading books.

43. Preference for Multimedia
Our learning was text based.
They live in a world of multimedia. They learn more
effectively when information is presented visually.

44. They are visual learners %
90
Their short term recall 80
is 9 times better when 70
60
information is
50
presented graphically
40
30
20
10
0
Graphical Oral/text

45. Learning is More Effective in Color
Our learning was largely black and white.
The 21st century learner processes information in
color.

46. Yet this is what they routinely get…

47. For example, if you were learning about
the recent earthquake in Japan you
could copy and distribute handouts
or…

48. Experiential Learners
We grew up as passive consumers of media
They constantly interact with media - and learn
effectively through trial and error

49. What do you do when you open this box?
What would your students do?

50. At school, it’s ―sit still and listen‖

51. Random information access
We received controlled, linear presentation of
information
Their access is fast paced and driven by curiosity and
interest

52. Collaboration and Communication
Our mandate was to sit still, be quiet, work on your
own
They’re constantly ―connected‖, communicating and
collaborating with several people at once

53. Content Publishers
We consumed media.
They constantly create and publish media.

54. If education is about ―context‖…
Life outside school… Life in school…
Digital, constantly plugged in Analog, put technology away
Multimedia and color Text, black and white
Personal, driven by passion Follows fixed schedule
Creating and publishing Consume and spit back
Always connected, interacting Isolated, sit still and quiet
Learning from multitude of sources Teacher, textbook
Sharing and collaborating Work on your own
Experiential, hands on learning Listen to lecture

55. So Why…?
T hat’s
T he
W ay
We
A lways
D id
It

56. 3. How do we adapt and create a
21st century ―learning‖ environment?

57. Fundamental Shift in Strategy
Old New
Knowledge is objective and Knowledge is constantly
certain. expanding.
Basic skills and content can Learning is an ever-evolving
be quantified and delivered. “lifetime” process. Need to
develop “lifetime” learners.
-- Shana Ratner, “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”

58. New Literacies, New Skills
The literacies and skills students need
reflect the society in which we live.

59. Information Literacy & ―Digital Natives‖
Where do I search?
Who wrote it and how do I know it’s accurate?
How do I filter, organize and categorize content?
How do I curate, analyze and apply what I find?

60. Martin Luther King Jr.
―Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy of
adulation for the so-called "Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr."
King has even had a national Holiday declared in his honor, an honor
accorded to no other American, not Washington, not Jefferson, not
Lincoln. A liberal judge has sealed the FBI files on King until the year
2027. What are they hiding? Let's take a look at this modern-day
plastic god.‖

61. From WHOIS.com
Organization:Stormfront
City:West Palm Beach, State/Province:FL
Organization:Stormfront: Server:STORMFRONT.ORG

62. Is everything you read on the Internet real?
An octopus that lives in a tree?
The history of robots in Victorian times?

63. Digital Citizenship
• Maintaining your privacy
• Managing your digital footprint
• Staying safe online
• Appropriate behavior on social networking
sites

64. • 75% of US
teens have a
social
networking site
• 37% of US
employers
check
Facebook page
of applicants

65. From Text to Media Literacy
“Under the Rug”

66. Should we still be delivering content?
Read the chapter and answer the questions?

67. Can school still be about access to content?

68. Memorization? Try the ―Five Minute University‖

70. The alternative?
Student Centered
Collaborative
Critical Thinking
Creative
Independent
Learners

71. 2012 Elections
• Research: Locate a state with a substantial swing vote and
find which issues impact those swing voters.
• Collaboration: Work in groups of 3-4 students.
• Alternative Media: Create a multimedia website to champion
your candidate’s stance on the swing issue.
• Media Literacy: Analyze effective TV ads and create a TV ad
to influences swing voters.
• Social Networking: Create and use a Twitter account that
sends out concise, impactful “Tweets” to support your cause.

72. 2012 Elections
The primary focus of this ad is to show how Romney's plan does not
help the Middle Class in Florida.

73. Student centered, inquiry based education:
* values questioning and exploring
* learning by doing - embraces mistakes
* prioritizes creative thinking and innovation

74. The key to learning isn’t knowing the right
answers.to learning is knowing how to
The key
ask the right questions.

75. Publishers: extending beyond the classroom

76. Publishing to a global community

77. The Global Classroom & Community

78. Online and blended learning
Around 10 million students take at least one online
course
Anytime learning requires a blended learning
environment
Interactive, personalized and differentiated

79. Connecting: Virtual Communities
 Social networking is one of the most powerful forces
on the internet today.
 Broadband, mobile trends have led to new
phenomenon of peer to peer, DIY ―Networked
learning‖.

80. Connecting with ―teachers‖ all over the world

81. Connect and learn anything you want…

82. Places to start…
 Embrace your role as a learner
 Join a learning community with other teachers
 Implement more student-centered learning
 Create a classroom culture of inquiry and
collaboration
 Integrate and encourage use of multimedia
 Create a virtual classroom that utilizes technology
for personalization, collaboration, interaction and
more
 Start by thinking 80-20

83. Remember … everything is amazing

84. "If we teach today
as we taught yesterday,
we rob our children of
tomorrow"
- John Dewey

85. "This isn't the time to use technology to
refine the model we had before; this is a
time to harness technology to let children
go as far and as fast as they want."
--Stephen Heppel

86. Every new challenge
presents an opportunity
for excellence

87. Thank you for your time and patience!
Sam Gliksman
Email: samgliksman@gmail.com
Twitter: @samgliksman
iPads in Education website
http://iPadEducators.ning.com