A presentation by Will Richardson in Bendigo 2011

1. Learning in a Networked World:
For our students and for ourselves
Will Richardson
PLPNetwork.com
Weblogg-ed.com
@willrich45 on Twitter
will@plpnetwork.com

2. todaysmeet.com/bendigo11
Presentation is at:
bit.ly/bendigo11

3. First, a story...

7. The world is changing...

9. Learning is changing...

10. What's different?
We now have an easy connection between an
individual's passion to learn and the resources to
learn it.

11. Anytime. Anywhere...

12. Anyone.

13. Two billion people will be connected to the Web by 2011.

14. Two billion ways to connect.

15. bit.
ly/iiPWKb

16. Two billion predators...

17. ...or two billion potential teachers from around the world.

18. Huge implications for us as learners and for our schools.

20. “'What can you do?' has been replaced with 'What can
you and your network connections do?' Knowledge itself
is moving from the individual to the individual and his
contacts.”
--Jay Cross, Informal Learning

22. "Our learning institutions, for the most part, are acting as if
the world has not suddenly, irrevocably, cataclysmically,
epistemically changed-and changed precisely in the area
of learning."
--Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg
"Future of Learning Institutions", 2009
http://bit.ly/X52mZ (.pdf)

23. “If you think that the future will require better schools,
you’re wrong. The future of education calls for entirely
different learning environments.”
--Knowledge Works Foundation

24. Education vs. Everyday
Analog vs. Digital
Tethered vs. Mobile
Isolated vs. Connected
Generic vs. Personal
Consumption vs. Creation
Closed vs. Open
David Wiley, BYU

25. Right now, schools are:
Time and place. Filtered. Teacher-directed.
Standardized. Push oriented. Content-based. Group
assessed. Linear. Closed. Sept-June. Local.

26. Learning will be (already is):
Mobile. Networked. Global. Collaborative. Self-directed.
Inquiry based. On demand. Transparent. Lifelong.
Personalized. Pull.

27. Shouldn't classrooms be?
Mobile. Networked. Global. Collaborative. Self-directed.
Inquiry based. On demand. Transparent. Lifelong.
Personalized. Pull.

28. But here is the deal...

29. Before we upgrade the system, we need to upgrade
ourselves. The more we practice and demand great
learning, the better our system will become.

30. So here's the question...

31. Even though no one is asking you to...

32. ...not parents, not the community, not the state...

33. ...are you changing (upgrading)?

34. What are the consequences of not changing?

35. Discussion

36. Small Group Discussion

37. What about the world and society has changed since
you went to school?
What about students has changed since you went to
school?
What about schools has changed since you went to
school?
What should "School 2.0" look like in order to meet the
needs of the 21st Cnetury learner?

38. Eight* Shifts For Us, For Our Kids
*Subject to change without notice.

39. Shift #1: Do Talk to Strangers

40. The reality of the safety question...

42. The reality of the learning question...

43. "But there is no doubt that five years from now, when my
children are teenagers, they will be comfortable living in
public in ways that will astound and alarm their parents. I can
already imagine how powerful the instinct to worry about
predators and compromising photos will be. But it will be our
responsibility to keep that instinct in check and to recognize
that their increasingly public existence brings more promise
than peril. We have to learn how to break with that most
elemental of parental commandments: Don't talk to
strangers. It turns out that strangers have a lot to give us
that's worthwhile, and we to them."
--Steven Johnson
"Web Privacy: In Praise of Oversharing"
Time Magazine, May 20, 2010
http://bit.ly/aBbBYL

45. 98% Strangers

46. Kids are already doing this.

48. “Kids learn on the Internet in a self-directed way, by
looking around for information they are interested in, or
connecting with others who can help them. This is a big
departure from how they are asked to learn in most
schools, where the teacher is the expert and there is a
fixed set of content to master.”
--Mimi Ito
MacArthur Foundation

49. No one is teaching kids to do this well.

50. Shift #2: The "G-Portfolio"

52. What comes up when you Google yourselves?

53. How do we help students become "Googled well?"

54. "Planet -scale sharing."
--Clay Shirky
Cognitive Surplus

56. "The traditional two-page resume has been turned into a
'personal productivity portal' that empowers prospective
employers to quite literally interact with their candidate's
work."
--Michael Schrage
Harvard Business Review

62. "Reputation management"

65. Can we model the "G-portfolio" for our students?

66. Shift #3: Tell Digital Stories

67. Kids aren't distracted...they're just looking for more
interesting stories from us.

68. "[Kids] are 'consumivores'--colelctively rummaging,
consuming, distributing and regurgitating content in
byte-size, snack size, and full-meal packages...If we
want them to consume our stories, we'll have to harness
a range of technologies to tell them well. If we don't,
there are plenty of other options available for them to
consume--or more likely, they'll create their next meal
without us."
--Nick Bilton, I Live in the Future

73. Podcasts
Videos
Screencasts
Presentations
Livestreams
Photos
Games

74. Mobile

75. Shift #4: Information Management

76. National Council of Teachers of English on literacy:

77. 21st Century readers and writers need to be able to
"manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of
simultaneous information."
http://bit.ly/nctelit

78. "It's not a matter of information overload; it's 'filter
failure.'"
--Clay Shirky

80. We live in a "pull" information world, not "push."
--John Seely Brown
Pull

81. We participate with information, not simply consume it.

84. Shift #5: Be a Crap Detector

86. Who do you trust?

87. How do you determine authority?

90. Shift #6: Follow Your Passions

92. National Educational
Technology Plan (Draft)
http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010

93. "The model of 21st century learning described in this plan
calls for engaging and empowering learning experiences
for all learners. The model asks that we focus what and
how we teach to match what people need to know, how
they learn, where and when they will learn, and who
needs to learn. It brings state-of-the art technology into
learning to enable, motivate, and inspire all students,
regardless of background, languages, or disabilities, to
achieve. It leverages the power of technology to provide
personalized learning instead of a one-size fits-all
curriculum, pace of teaching, and instructional practices."

95. Shift #7: Learn to Learn

96. Learning is now lifelong and lifewide.

97. “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

99. "The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization
with the mission of providing a high quality
education to anyone, anywhere."

101. Wikiversity
University of the People
Unclasses.org
Teachstreet
EduFire
School of Everything
OpenLearn
OpenCourseWare Consortium
iTunesU
CosmoLearning
National Connections Academy
Open High School of Utah
Open Learning Intiative
Academic Earth
Connexions
Flat World Knowledge
p2pU
YouTube Edu

104. With that reality, the question for schools now
becomes: how are we preparing our students for
lifelong, self-directed, independent learning?

105. Shift #8: Solve Problems...Creatively, Patiently

106. National Council of Teachers of English on literacy:

107. "Build relationships with others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and cross-culturally."

109. 1:45-3:26

111. So, here is our problem: how will we change?

113. tinyurl.com/266c8hm
tinyurl.com/2e6xr7h

114. http://1.usa.gov/fxfuXW

115. http://1.usa.gov/fxfuXW

116. "Big problems are rarely solved with
commensurately big solutions. Instead, they are
most often solved by a sequence of
small solutions, sometimes over
weeks, sometimes over decades."
--Dan and Chip Heath, "Switch"

117. You need a "growth mindset."
--Carol Dweck, "Mindset"

118. Is technology a part of your personal learning culture?

119. How do we add dots to our maps?
bit.
ly/iiPWKb

120. Are you sharing, co-operating, collaborating and
collectively acting with others?

121. "We need to move beyond the idea that an education is
something that is provided for us, and toward the idea
that an education is something that we create for
ourselves."
--Stephen Downes
http://huff.to/cLEcpe

122. "Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that
expand their global connections are more likely to
advance, while those who do not will find themselves on
the sidelines. With the growing availability of tools to
connect learners and scholars all over the world —
online collaborative workspaces, social networking tools,
mobiles, voice-over-IP, and more — teaching and
scholarship are transcending traditional borders more
and more all the time."
--2009 Horizon Report

123. Will Richardson
Weblogg-ed.com
PLPNetwork.com
will@plpnetwork.com
willrich45 on Twitter