Presentation at Interlochen Arts Academy April 2, 2012

1. Modernizing Education
The State of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
Lucy Gray
Interlochen Arts Academy
April 2, 2012
http://www.lucygray.org

2. All materials are located at:
http://www.lucygray.org
Specific to this keynote:
http://sg.sg/modernizingedu
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3. Experiences
• Graduate of Lake Forest
Country Day
• Worked at University of
Chicago
• Apple Distinguished
Educator
• Google Certified Teacher
• Founder, The Global
Education Collaborative
• Co-founder, The Global
Education Conference
• Multiple Opportunities to
visit and work with schools

4. Context: Another Nation
at Risk Moment ?
How do we improve teaching and learning?
What is truly innovative?
How do we effectively assess students?

5. The Power of Social
Media
Flickr
YouTubeTwitter Facebook
LinkedIn Google+
Diigo
SlideShare

6. SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP
AT BOARD RETREAT

7. “The Highly Connected
Teacher”
The National Educational Technology Plan

8. The K12 Horizon Report

9. The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report 2011
K-12
•1 year or less
• Cloud Computing
• Mobiles
•2 to 3 years
• Game-based learning
• Open Content
•4 to 5 years
• Learning Analytics
• Personal Learning
Environments 2011 Report

10. Megatrends
People expect to work, learn, socialize,
and play whenever and wherever they
want to.

11. Megatrends
The Internet is becoming a global
mobile network - and already is at its
edges.

12. Megatrends
The technologies we use are
increasingly cloud-based and delivered
over utility networks, facilitating the
rapid growth of online videos and rich
media.

13. Megatrends
Openness — concepts like open
content, open data, and open
resources — is moving from a trend to
a value for much of the world.

14. Megatrends
Legal notions of ownership and privacy
lag behind the practices common in
society. The very concept of ownership
is blurry.

15. Megatrends
Real challenges of access, efficiency, and
scale are redefining what we mean by
quality and success. Access to learning in
any form is a challenge in too many parts
of the world, and efficiency in learning
systems and institutions is increasingly an
expectation of governments.

16. Megatrends
The Internet is constantly challenging
us to rethink learning and education,
while refining our notion of literacy.

17. Megatrends
There is a rise in informal learning as
individual needs are redefining schools,
universities, and training. Traditional
authority is increasingly being
challenged in many arenas.

18. Megatrends
Business models across the education
ecosystem are changing. Look to
libraries, colleges, and the publishing
industry.

19. Why Change?

20. Why Evolve?

21. Shift Happens: Iowa, Did You Know?

22. Project Tomorrow’s
SpeakUp Survey

23. Project Tomorrow
Recommendations
• Un-tether learning and leverage mobile devices to extend
learning beyond the school day and meet all learners in their
own world
• Create new interactive, participatory learning spaces using
tools such as online classes, gaming and simulations, online
tutors, and virtual reality environments
• Incorporate Web 2.0 tools into daily instruction especially
those that develop collaborative or social-based learning and
provide unique opportunities for students to be content
developers
• Expand digital resources in the classroom to add context and
relevancy to learning experiences through new media tools
• Get beyond the classroom walls and make learning truly
experiential such as using high tech science instrumentation
and creating podcasts with content experts

24. Via John Pfluger

25. The Reality

26. Public Schools
• Increased pressure
via Race to the Top,
AYP, RTI
• Less funding
• Less Time
• Emphasis on
standards and high
stakes testing
• Teacher Proof
curricula
• Less instruction in
the arts, World
Languages, etc.
• Longer school days
• Technology seen as
a content delivery
Mechanism
• Constant seeking of
silver bullets

27. Independent Schools
• Time
• Resources
• Streamlined
bureaucracy
• Organizational vision
• Community Consensus
• Administrative and
collegial support
• Authentic curriculum
• Recognition of the
Importance of 21st
century skills
• Professional
development
• Teacher autonomy
• Prepared students
• Commitment to
developing the whole
child
• Parental support

28. What do effective schools
seem to have in common?
• A WIDE RANGE OF EFFORTS TOWARDS
CULTIVATING 21ST CENTURY SKILLS AND
IMPLEMENTING ROBUST TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAMS
• THE SUCCESS OF ANY PROGRAM DEPENDS ON:
• VISIONARY LEADERSHIP
• STRATEGIC PLANNING
• COMMITMENT TO CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
• THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SCHOOL IS PRESSURED
TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR A CHANGING WORLD

29. Greene County Schools

30. Mooresville Graded School
District

31. My Experience as a
Parent

32. The School at Columbia
• K-8
• Columbia University faculty and local kids
• Innovation driven
• 1 to 1 laptop program
• 3 technologists plus tech staff
• Extensive Google Apps for Education and new
media use
• Other: field trip guides, computer programming,
robotics, conference

33. Known as “THE”

43. Science Leadership
Academy

45. Educon 2.4

46. Personalized
Learning
Mobile
Technologies
21st century
skills
generational
Diversity
Learning
environments
Design
Thinking
Cloud
Computing
Textbook
Revolution
Curated
Learning
New Media
Literacies
Flipping
The
Classroom
Global
Collaboration
Also think about gamification, OER...

47. 21st Century Skills

48. A Pedagogical Shift
• New models of teaching and learning are emerging
• Rigorous content + 21st century themes
• “Sage on the stage” to “guide on the side”
• New literacies need to be taught strategically
• Examples:
• developing a search mentality
• Student personal learning networks (PLNs)
• Standards and accountability still are important;
assessments need revision

49. The Partnership for
21st Century Skills

52. The Global Achievement
Gap
Critical
Thinking and
Problem-
Solving
Collaboration
Across
Networks and
Leading by
Influence
Agility and
Adaptability
Initiative and
Entrepreneuri
alism
Effective Oral
and Written
Communication
Accessing and
Analyzing
Information
Curiosity and
Imagination

54. Managing
Generational Diversity

55. Teachers and Students
• Adults have different learning styles. How
are we taking this into account in terms of
professional development and human capital?
• Baby Boomers
• Gen Xers
• Gen Yers
• Kids have had different levels of exposure to
technology. The period of time at which our
schools have been wired is fairly short.

56. Basic online entertainment
(online videos, playing games)
E-commerce
(online shopping, banking, and travel reservations)
Research and information gathering
(product research, news, health and religious information searches)
Email and search
Active engagement
with social media
(visit SNS, create SNS profile,
create blogs)
More advanced online
entertainment
(download videos, music and
podcasts)
More advanced communication and
passive social media use
(instant messaging, visit SNS, read blogs)
From: State of the
Internet 2009: Pew
Internet Project
Findings and
Implications for
Libraries
The vast majority of
online adults from all
generations uses email
and search engines.
While there are always
exceptions, older generations
typically do not engage with the
internet past e-commerce.
The majority of teens and Gen
Y use SNS, but fewer maintain
blogs. Online adults older than
Gen X are less likely to use
SNS.
Online
activity
pyramid: by
generation

57. Beloit College’s
Mindset List

58. 0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002
K-12 Classroom Internet Connectivity
Classroom Internet Connectivity
2007
Coming Soon to Campus: The New "Free
Agent" Learner
Julie Evans, CEO-Project Tomorrow Campus
Technology 09
Jul 27, 2009

59. Class of 2011 – recently graduated seniors
! ! ! ! 8th grade
Class of 2013 – current juniors
! ! ! ! 6th grade
Class of 2015 – current freshman class
! ! ! ! 4th grade
How digitally “native” are these students?
What are their expectations for learning?

60. Implications for Schools
• Need for strategic human capital planning
• Need for increased targeted, sustained,
personalized and thoughtful professional
development
• Need for long range planning for students’
use of technology. Requires schools to think
of skills sets needed by students at various
points in their academic careers while gauging
the future of technology

61. Learning Environments

62. NYC’s The School of One
• Summer school pilot
• Middle school math
• Flexible space
• Personalized curriculum
• Regular assessments
• Variety in delivery of instruction
• Lesson plan bank
• Partnered with publishers

63. NYC’s The School of One
• Summer school pilot
• Middle school math
• Flexible space
• Personalized curriculum
• Regular assessments
• Variety in delivery of instruction
• Lesson plan bank
• Partnered with publishers

64. Re:Imagine Ed

65. The Third Teacher

66. You Media

67. So what?
• Networked learning: You must be open to at least letting your kids drive the
technology use in your classrooms. Be willing to engage them in the ways
that they learn best.
• Generational diversity: Change is not going to happen without schools
working as teams to examine at longitudinal goals.
• 21st century skills: The art of teaching comes through via the weaving of
21st century themes into core content. You need to provide guidance and
be thoughtful when designing classroom activities.
• Learning environments: Just as we’ve looked at the whole child, we need to
start emphasizing the whole learning environment. Personalized learning for
both students and teachers is important.

68. Getting Started

69. ISTE Standards
Students, Teachers, and Administrators

70. Technology Integration Framework
Woodstock (IL) CUSD 200

71. Various Approaches
• LoTI
• University of South
Florida Matrix
• Arizona matrix
• Using Technology with
Classroom Instruction
that Works
• Challenge Based
Learning
• TPACK
• SMAR

72. University of South Florida’s
Tech Intergration Matrix

73. Grappling’s Technology
and Learning Spectrum

74. A world class education system
should call for
globally connected schools

76. •The influence of new media
•The push for 21st
century skills
•The “highly connected
teacher”
•The urgency presented by
complex global problems

77. CCSSO and
Asia Society’s PGL
• New resource on
global competence!
• Download a copy
here.

78. From Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World

79. Esther Wojcicki and Michael Levine
Teaching for a Shared Future: American Educators
Need to Think Globally
EdWeek: Global Learning blog by Tony Jackson

80. THINK GlobalSchool
12 countries in 12 trimesters

81. Connect All Schools
iEARN

83. My Story

84. Apple Distinguished Educators
Global Awareness 2006
• The World is Flat
• A Whole New Mind
• Berlin & Prague
• Rethink. Global
Awareness.

85. Classroom 2.0
Link

86. Global Education
Conference
http://globaleducationconference.com

87. Over 500,000 unique visitors

88. Over 10,000 Members
from 142 Countries

89. Steve Hargadon

90. Closing Session

91. 2010 - Brian Mannix

92. 2010 - Polar Bears
International

93. 2010 - Catlin Gabel School
• Program Information

94. 2011 - Pam Allyn - LitWorld

95. 2011 - Greg Jacobs - Louder
Than a Bomb

96. 2011 - The Shoah Foundation

98. Project Examples

99. Dan Meyer
http://vimeo.com/19507645
ADE Application

100. Google Lit TripsJerome Burg

101. A Whole New MindKarl Fisch

102. The iEARN Project Book

103. Recommendations
• Learn to network; network to learn
• Keep it authentic
• Start small and design very structured
projects
• Join an existing group project
• Develop a customized vision of 21st century
learning for your classroom, school and
district

104. WHY NOW?
@oline73: Can you distill why globally connected classrooms are vital in 2010?
Photo source

105. We have urgent problems that need
to be addressed and, in order to
prepare our students to work on
these problems, we must connect
them globally. We must teach them
how networked learning leads to
networked problem solving.

106. http://sg.sg/modernizingedu
lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com
Twitter: elemenous