1. Will Richardson
will@willrichardson.com
willrichardson.com
@willrich45
bit.ly/11MFaUW
Rethinking School in an Era of
Self-Organized, Networked Learning
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3. Two crucial, fundamental questions:
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4. How is it that you believe children learn?
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5. What is required for productive,“sticky”
learning to take place?
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6. "Productive learning is the learning
process which engenders and reinforces
wanting to learn more. Absent wanting
to learn, the learning context is
unproductive or counterproductive."
Seymour Sarason
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7. Do our students “want to learn more?”
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8. Do our students “want to learn more” about
the topics they study in school?
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12. Jacob Arnott
14-year old Editor in Chief
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14. CHANGE
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15. Scarcity
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16. ABUNDANCE
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17. 5 Billion App Downloads
2.5 Billion People
2 Trillion Webpages
5Years ofYouTube video per minute
Est. 1 billion photos uploaded each day 2014
5Years of all IP video per second
100,000 Tweets per minute
12 Billion Internet Connected Devices by 2015
ABUNDANCE
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20. Games
Videos
Networks
Texts
Hangouts
(...and all sorts of other interesting stuff
they don’t have access to at school.)
ABUNDANCEKids’Version
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21. ...A world marked by “ubiquitous computing,
ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at
unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere,
from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make
it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share,
collect, collaborate and publish.”
Michael Wesch
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22. Media
Politics
Journalism
Medicine
Books
Business
Music...
Which is Changing:
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23. i.e.
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24. i.e.
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25. i.e.
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26. ?????
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27. U.S. Postal Service
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28. Education?
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29. Massive
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31. “The change we are in the
middle of isn’t minor, and it
isn’t optional.”
Clay Shirky
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32. In Education:
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33. In Education:
A Clash of Contexts
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34. Traditional Learning
(Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators)
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35. Traditional Learning
(Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators)
Modern Learning
(Kids with Access, Connected, Networked Learners)
Vs
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36. Traditional Learning
Modern Learning
Delivery
Vs
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37. Traditional Learning
Modern Learning
Delivery
Discovery
Vs
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38. Traditional Learning
What you want me to learn.
Modern Learning
Vs
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39. Traditional Learning
What you want me to learn.
Modern Learning
What I want to learn
Vs
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40. Traditional Learning
Just in case.
Modern Learning
Vs
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41. Traditional Learning
Just in case.
Modern Learning
Just in time.
Vs
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42. New reality
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43. Information, knowledge and teachers are in abundant
supply and ubiquitous.
NEW REALITY
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44. Information, knowledge and teachers are in abundant
supply and ubiquitous.
That supply of knowledge and information is expanding
and changing at a rate like never before.
ABUNDANCENEW REALITY
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45. Information, knowledge and teachers are in abundant
supply and ubiquitous.
That supply of knowledge and information is expanding
and changing at a rate like never before.
We cannot predict the impacts of technological
advances on the future of learning and work.
ABUNDANCENEW REALITY
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46. Information, knowledge and teachers are in abundant
supply and ubiquitous.
That supply of knowledge and information is expanding
and changing at a rate like never before.
We cannot predict the impacts of technological
advances on the future of learning and work.
A wide range of new skills and literacies will be
required to navigate the future.
ABUNDANCENEW REALITY
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47. THE Key Shift:
NEW REALITY
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48. Institutionally Organized World
ABUNDANCENEW REALITY
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49. Institutionally Organized World
Self-Organized World
ABUNDANCENEW REALITY
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50. ...an agent to get a record deal?
...a broker to buy stock?
...a publisher to write a book?
...a journalist to report the news?
...a travel agent to book our flights?
Remember when we needed...
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51. ...an agent to get a record deal?
...a broker to buy stock?
...a publisher to write a book?
...a journalist to report the news?
...a travel agent to book our flights?
...a school to learn Algebra?
Remember when we needed...
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52. Institutionally Organized Learning
Self-Organized Learning
ABUNDANCENEW ED REALITY
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53. THE Disruption
bit.ly/13i4a68
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54. Access to an abundance of content,
knowledge, information, teachers,
and technologies shifts the balance
of power for learning from the
school to the learner...
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55. Access to an abundance of content,
knowledge, information, teachers,
and technologies shifts the balance
of power for learning from the
school to the learner...
...whether we like it or not.
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56. It. Changes. Us.
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57. “What you ought to be learning at
school is that you don’t need to be
taught in order to learn.”
Seymour Papert
bit.ly/ZTTvji
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58. Especially now.
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59. “The illiterate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
Alvin Toffler
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60. Part 1:
Relearning Learning
RELEARNING
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61. Networks are the new classrooms.
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63. “Connected Learning”
New Reality
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64. “Connected learning is realized when a young
person is able to pursue a personal interest or
passion with the support of friends and caring
adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and
interest to academic achievement, career success
or civic engagement.”
Mimi Ito
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65. “Continual Learning”
New Reality
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67. Top “Learning” Tools 2012
582 votes
http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/
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68. Top “Learning” Tools 2012
582 votes
http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/
Self-organized learning
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69. In a world of abundance, learning
is less about content (which is
everywhere) and more about skills
and dispositions.
RELEARNING
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70. “There’s no competitive advantage today
in knowing more than the person next to
you.The world doesn’t care what you
know.What the world cares about is
what you can do with what you know.”
Tony Wagner
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72. creativity
passion to know
application of knowledge
inquiry
seeing patterns
posing and answering questions
understanding the world
acquiring knowledge
curiosity
finding and solving problems
making something
understanding something you previously didn’t understand
making connections
changing your perspective on something
synthesizing ideas
adding new knowledge
RELEARNING
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73. creativity
passion to know
application of knowledge
inquiry
seeing patterns
posing and answering questions
understanding the world
acquiring knowledge
curiosity
finding and solving problems
making something
understanding something you previously didn’t understand
making connections
changing your perspective on something
synthesizing ideas
adding new knowledge
RELEARNING
Which of These do we Assess?
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74. creativity
passion to know
application of knowledge
inquiry
seeing patterns
posing and answering questions
understanding the world
acquiring knowledge
curiosity
finding and solving problems
making something
understanding something you previously didn’t understand
making connections
changing your perspective on something
synthesizing ideas
adding new knowledge
RELEARNING
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75. “Learning the new is about being in the flow of new
ideas, making sense of what we hear and find out, i.e. by
‘joining the dots’ ourselves, and by sharing our thoughts,
experiences, with others in our teams, groups,
communities and networks. It’s not about waiting for
someone to come along to teach us this new knowledge
or new skills but rather to continuously learn for
ourselves.”
Jane Hart
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76. Part 2:
Relearning “School”
RELEARNING
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77. New Reality
Teachers are everywhere
Classrooms are everywhere
“School” is everywhere
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79. 215,284,446 Lots of Lessons Delivered
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83. What if he’s right?
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86. Self-Organized LearningSelf-Organized Learning
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90. “What does a middle school algebra teacher do
if kindergarteners can start learning to solve equations
within a couple of hours?”
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95. New Question:
If this is what our students now
have access to...
...what is our new role?
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96. New Question:
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97. New Answer:
That which cannot be
“Khanified.”
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98. Part 3:
Relearning Higher Education
RELEARNING
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Scarcity
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Scarcity
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108. bit.ly/MZmNDy
Scarcity
Abundance
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109. bit.ly/MZmNDy
Scarcity
Abundance
Information ≠ Education
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110. bit.ly/MZmNDy
Scarcity
Abundance
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112. Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. ofVa, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins,
Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.
of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.
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113. Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. ofVa, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins,
Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.
of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.
“This is the tsunami.”
--Richard DeMillo, Ga.Tech
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121. Institutionally
Organized
Self-
Organized
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122. 2024?
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123. Self-Organized Learners?
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124. Part 4:
Relearning The Future of Work
RELEARNING
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134. Self-Organized Work
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135. “Looking to the future of work, one could
sum up the anticipated impacts in a single
word: More. More intensity. More pressure.
More change. More risk. But also, more
opportunity. More engagement. More
transparency. More impact.”
Yvette Cameron
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136. To Sum it Up:
ABUNDANCE
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137. Means that we are now the central,
organizing force in our own learning, our own
education, and, increasingly our own careers.
ABUNDANCE
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138. Means that we now need the skills and
dispositions to “design”our own
learning and careers.
ABUNDANCE
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139. Means we must develop a new context for
modern learning.
ABUNDANCE
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140. So...
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141. Traditional Learning
Modern Learning
Vs (?)
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142. Traditional Learning
Modern Learning
AND
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143. “We have to do both.”
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144. New Reality
Schools need to be “different”...
not just “better.”
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145. New Reality
“Better” won’t cut it.
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146. June 3, 1952
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149. Moral of the Story
“Better” matters little if what people need
and want is something else.
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150. Where Do We Start?
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151. Where Do We Start?
With us.
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152. Where Do We Start?
Ask:
“Are we self-organized, connected,
modern learners?”
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153. LEARNERS FIRST
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154. LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second
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156. will@willrichardson.com
@willrich45
willrichardson.com
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