These slides are an edited version of a formal address delivered by David Warlick. Learn more about the presentation at: http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/?page_id=32

1. Presented by David Warlick The Landmark Project Raleigh, NC Flat World Flat Web Flat Classrooms Photo: Beggs, &quot;IMG_1761.&quot; Beggs' Photostream . 11 Sep 2005. 24 Jun 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/beggs/42276187/>. Prepared under fair use exemption of the U.S. Copyright Law and restricted from further use.

2. Online Handouts http://landmark-project.com http://handouts.davidwarlick.com http://landmark-project.com/sl/ Eduisland II 129/13/23 Tags: flat, classroom, warlick

3. What do We Know about the Workplace of the Future? &quot;How Much Information.&quot; School of Inormation Management & Systems . 2000. Regents of the University of California. 13 March, 2001. <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/summary.html>. This is the information-age workplace of the future! But… http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/

4. What do We Know about the Workplace of the Future? &quot;How Much Information.&quot; School of Inormation Management & Systems . 2000. Regents of the University of California. 13 March, 2001. <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/summary.html>. If we consider that we carry our phones in our pockets now… http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/

5. What do We Know about the Workplace of the Future? &quot;How Much Information.&quot; School of Inormation Management & Systems . 2000. Regents of the University of California. 13 March, 2001. <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/summary.html>. … that less than 0.01% of the information we generate today is ever printed on paper, http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/

6. What do We Know about the Workplace of the Future? &quot;How Much Information.&quot; School of Inormation Management & Systems . 2000. Regents of the University of California. 13 March, 2001. <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/summary.html>. … That more and more of our professional collaborations are happening virtually… http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/

7. What do We Know about the Workplace of the Future? &quot;How Much Information.&quot; School of Inormation Management & Systems . 2000. Regents of the University of California. 13 March, 2001. <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/summary.html>. … and that our information technologies are becoming increasingly personal and pocketed… http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/

8. What do We Know about the Workplace of the Future? There won’t be much left for the desk -- won’t be much reason to have a desk… So what do we have left? Almost nothing!

9. What do We Know about the Workplace of the Future? … And this is exactly what we know about the future we’re preparing our children for… Almost Nothing!

10. For the first time in history, our job as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we can not clearly describe.

11. Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. … We do know that the economy that drives the world is changing – that it is flattening, as described by Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat!

15. He’s not investing in the technology! He’s investing in the Story! My son spends his money on video games and game system… But…

16. Is it the Technology? http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/ A better story? You don’t invest in a new HDTV because of the technology. You buy it because you want a better picture! We’re buying what the creative arts workers contribute!

17. A Flat Information Landscape The Wikipedia, in 2001, looked like this, and included articles in 12 languages. In 2002 it grew to 23 languages… 2003 - 29 2004 - 65 2005 - 80 2006 - 116 2007 - 176 today - 200+

18. The Changing Shape of Information http://wikipedia.org Those languages did not appear because a giant librarian decided that they should be there. They emerged because people who spoke those languages wanted to be a part of the new information landscape!

19. Science/Astronomy How many planets does you science book report in the Solar System? The BBC announced at 1:30 PM, 24 August, 2006, that there are now only 8 planets, because astronomers changed the characteristics of a planet minutes before. The Wikipedia article on the Solar System was up-to-date less than one minute later, and the article was edited 90 times between 1:30 that afternoon and midnight.

20. Information is Changing Technorati Google of the Blogosphere Blogging made us all potential publishers. It changed the shape of information. Individuals can observe their experience, reflect on their experience, report it in their blog, and even make a living with advertising.

23. From the perspective of their information landscape, our students are more literate than their teachers! http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/ Traditional classrooms were hilly, with the teacher up above, and the learners down below. We drove curriculum with gravity. But consider that… Learners Learners Curriculum, Content & Teachers Gravity Gravity

24. Our Classrooms are Flat http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/ How do we drive learning when we can no long rely on gravity? Where do we get the energy? Learners Learners Curriculum, Content & Teachers Gravity Gravity Learners Learners Curriculum Content Teachers

27. Our children are a different species. They have magical powers that would have seemed alien to us. They can see through walls. They can hear through walls. With their mobile phones, Internet-connected games systems, computers and text-messagers, they can connect to people regardless distance. Walls do not mean the same thing to them that they meant to us! They have tentacles.

28. But when they enter our classrooms, We chop those tentacles off Because we want our children to be, The students we want to teach! Rather than teaching the children that they are...

29. :Sry u didn’t c him? :No lol :I lmao :wombat :bb? :224 W aste o f M oney B rains a nd T ime This is how they learn – by communicating in an abbreviated code, often called IM Speak. They invented this grammar as a perfect way to communicate through the unique new information landscape.

31. Thank You! David Warlick • 919-571-3292 • [email_address] http://2cents.davidwarlick.com http://connectlearning.davidwarlick.com Blog………………………………….………… Podcast……………………….…….. http://handouts.davidwarlick.com/ In a conference bookstore near you ;-) The most important thing that we can realize, is that although technology is changing, it is the changing nature of information that must be the guiding principal for retooling education for the 21st century!