This document summarizes a meeting about meeting the needs of all learners in changing times. The meeting discussed moving towards more personalized and student-centered learning approaches using technology and collaboration. Participants were encouraged to try new approaches in their own schools and districts that give students more ownership over their learning. Continuing the conversation about personalized learning at a larger scale was also discussed.

1. Meeting the Needs of All
Learners: In Changing Times
Gordon Li & John Tyler
thelandscapeoflearning.com October, 2012
October 19, 2012

2. John Tyler Gordon Li
Introduction....
......Who are these guys?

8. Intentions for the day
✤ Leave here with actionable
ideas
✤ Share our experiences
✤ Time to collaborate with
others
✤ Where would you like to go
from here? lotusofgoogle.com

10. Ways to dialogue
✤ http://
www.todaysmeet.com/
nextgenerationlearning
#bcpvpaconf

11. How we started
✤ Backchannel of the 2010 BCSSA Fall conference
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19. How we started
✤ Backchannel of the 2010 BCSSA conference
✤ Discussed the idea of systemic
change with our school-based
Pro-D committee
✤ Planned a full Pro-D day of
“Big Ideas” about Next
Generation Learning
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20. Our Journey...
✤ Paradigm Shift
✤ Creating dissonance was necessary to
move forward

21. Burnaby South
Next Generation Learning:
Personalized Learning in the 21st
Century

22. Is the Shift all about
Technology?
 Technology is a way of life for our
students
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 We do need to separate Personalized
Learning from technology.
 Personalized learning is the tailoring of
pedagogy, curriculum and learning
support to meet the needs and aspirations
of individualized learners. - Wikipedia.

23. Is the shift all about
Technology
 Whilewe need to separate technology
from best teaching practices we can
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not ignore the changing trend in how
students communicate.

24. How many times have you heard this
question…
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Slide courtesy Chris Lehmann - 2010

25. To Personalize Learning makes
information relevant
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Slides courtesy of Chris Lehmann

26. A Paradigm Shift
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27. Why Trust in Schools?
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28. 21st Century Teaching &
Learning
Classroom
Teachers
Classroom of the
Burnaby South
Future is about
New Paradigm Teachers to change facilitating a plan
their central role,to that is co-created
A completely new become facilitators. with parents and
paradigm has students using
transformed a technology.
pedagogy of poverty
into infinite
abundance.
Adapted from Gabriel Rshaid – 2009

29. 21st Century Teaching &
Learning
Classroom
Teachers
Classroom of the
Burnaby South
Future is about
New Paradigm Teachers to change facilitating a plan
their central role,to that is co-created
A completely new become facilitators. with parents and
paradigm has students using
transformed a technology.
pedagogy of poverty
into infinite
abundance.
Adapted from Gabriel Rshaid – 2009

30. Our Approach to the 4 Cores:
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31. Our Approach to the 4 Cores:
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A Brief Introduction to the Speed of Trust

32. Burnaby South 21st Century Teaching &
“Our students should be able to
translate their everyday/social
experiences using technology to
formal learning.” - Gabriel Rshaid

33. Burnaby South
Behaving Yourself
Out of Problems…&
into Positive Trusting Relationships

34. Current Examples
@Burnaby South
 IDS - Independent Directed Studies
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 Weight Training
 Subject specific leadership courses
 I-phone/I-pad App development
 EA Sports Game Creation
 Ace-It

35. What can we do
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 Withinyour departments please work
in cloud groupings to address the
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questions located at:
http://bit.ly/dICnyn

36. Burnaby South

37. Our Journey Continues...
✤ Paradigm Shift
✤ Creating dissonance was necessary to move
forward
✤ Keep Positive
✤ Every Department to Brainstorm 1
opportunity that looks different

39. Our Journey Continues...
✤ Paradigm Shift
✤ Creating dissonance was necessary to move
forward
✤ Keep Positive
✤ Every Department to Brainstorm 1
opportunity that looks different
✤ Appreciative Inquiry

40. Our Journey Continues...
✤ Presentation in February 2011 at the District Pro-D looked very
different from our school-based presentation.

41. Our Journey Continues...
✤ From there we continued the conversation with a team in our
school while engaging further conversation through District
Committee.
✤ Timing - due to job action our progress slowed, but conversations
continued...(informally).
http://marriagelifeministries.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/progress.jpg

44. Discussion #1
✤ How have/will you (re)engage
with your staff to continue the
exploration of Personalized
Learning at your school?
✤ Discuss in small groups, please
use today’s meet to capture
your conversation.

45. Ways to dialogue
✤ http://
www.todaysmeet.com/
nextgenerationlearning
#bcpvpaconf

46. What have we tried...
...School Facebook Page....

47. ...School Twitter Account....
...monitored and updated by students for credit.

48. Examples
continued...
✤ Community Leadership ✤ Peer Mentoring
✤ Sport Specific Conditioning ✤ Calculus Support

49. Burnaby South I-Phone App

51. Promoting Learning Together

52. Discussion #2
✤ In your small groups please share some examples from your school/
district.

53. Reflections
1. Engagement
2. “In their element…”
3. Ownership
4. Personalities
5. Enjoyment
6. “Free”

54. Reflections
1. Range of delivery
2. Flexibility
3. Energy
4. “Joy of teaching”
5. Pride

55. Reflections
1. Know your students
2. Building connections
3. Relationships
4. “The big ask”

56. Where to go from here?
✤ Increase current success to a larger scale.
✤ Continue to explore what is best for learners.
✤ Explore and try NEW possibilities.

57. How to go from here?
✤ Allow students to explore their passions.
✤ Look for examples that connect school to community and/or...
✤ Provide Responses To Interventions...
✤ Create experiences that will engage students, giving each of them
what they need.

58. 21st Century Learning
• “What happens to
traditional concepts of
classrooms and teaching
when we can now learn
anything, anywhere,
anytime?”
Will Richardson

61. Discussion #3
3 Big Questions
Planning for Action: Extension to greater scale.
1. What is something you are going to try?
2. What is something you will stop doing?
3. How could you implement this at scale?

62. Questions...

63. References
✤ "Start Line," © Aug. 5, 2003, tableatny, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
✤ “Weights.” © Jan 11, 2011, the_green_squirrel, used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
✤ “Calculus.” © April 21, 2010, Bard College at Simon's Rock's, used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
✤ “Community Leadership” http://www.dfwonline.org/images/KM_Community_Leadership_web.jpg
✤ “Edcamp Leadership 2012-95”, © July 26, 2012, kjarrett, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
✤ “21st Century Learning” April 18, 2011. Alec and George Couros. Conquering the Myths of Social Media and Learning.
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SLA2010.htm
- Lehmann, Chris. High School Stinks. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/chrislehmann/tedxphilly-high-school-stinks November 19, 2010.
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- Rshaid, Gabriel. 21st Century: new teaching strategies, but are the learners ready? Presentation for the LAHC Conference 2009. Retrieved November 19, 2010 from www.lahc.net/
Site_2008/4_Conferences/21st_Century_LAHC.ppt