3. What is the purpose
of education?
Top 35 words “Race to the
Top” press release June 14, 2009
4. What is the purpose
of education?
Top 25 words in a listing of
education’ese phrases
5. What is the purpose
of education?
• New Conditions
– New Generation of Learners
– New Information Landscape
– A Future we can No Longer Describe
6. New Purpose
• Prepare our children for
their future
• ..by facilitating learning
experiences that:
– Employ learner-relevant
pedagogies,
– Harness the qualities of a
new information
environment, and
– Instill in all children a
learning lifestyle.
7. What's a textbook for?
• Content delivery
• Curriculum consistency
• Curriculum control
• Curriculum/Content confidence
11. Qualities of the ’Native'
Information Experience
• Responsive
• Provokes conversation
• Fueled by questions
• Built on & through identity
• Rewarded with currency
• Demands personal investment
• Guided by safely made mistakes
15. PDF
Advantages
• Light weight
• Less impact on
environment
• More easily updated
• Potentially cheaper
TB Industry shifts workforce
from production to content
creation & maintenance
16. Social Tools & Interactive
Applications
• Web 2.0
• Multimedia
• Games
Less about teaching
& assessment and
more about learning
experience
28. Platform Extreme
• Learner writes his own textbook
– Finds content,
– Related to goals,
– Corresponding to learning styles, and
– To learner’s power interests
29. Learner as Author
• Connects content to other learners
• Connects to the content of other learners
Connections
• Can be learner directed connections
• Can be agent suggested connections
30. Textbook goes with the
learner
• Continues to add new content
• Delete obsolete content
• Edits content, re-coloring it based on
new learning & new power interests
31. No predicting
• Form?
– We don’t know what the next Facebook or
Twitter will be
• Function?
– We do not know whether education will
continue down the narrowing path of the past
decade, or become more “open”
• Source
– Textbook Industry?
– Open Source Industry?
