1. Creating Virtual
Learning Spaces: From
Vision to Reality
David Jakes and Ryan Bretag

2. 64% Content Creators | 30% active blog 54% read | 25%
produce video 75% view | 25% Podcast consumers | 60%
Post Photos | 73% have mp3 players | 33% share files peer
to peer | 68% use IM | 75% have a cell phone | 97% play
video games
Source: PEW, January 14, 2009

5. What do you think? Students: 1.0? 2.0?

6. Do we have a gap to negotiate?

7. Everyone has an idea…

8. NET-S, T, and A
Partnership for 21st
Century Skills
Horizon Report
School 2.0
KnowledgeWorks
2020 Forecast
ACOT-Today
CoSN
NSTA
NSF
NCTE
MIT New Media

9. What does it mean to be well-educated in the 21st
Century?

10. How does this influence teaching and learning?

11. What are the questions we need to ask?

12. What are the core components to a multi-
dimensional learning space?

13. Why is a multi-dimensional learning space
essential to education in the 21st
Century?

14. Who are the critical stakeholders that need to be
involved?

15. Where are the resources to not only create but to
sustain this initiative?

16. When is (will) your organization ready?

17. How do you begin this movement in your school?

18. Pull out 5 of
these.
Make an
elevator
speech.

20. Live it.
Breathe it.
Model it.

21. How do we rethink what takes place in classroom as
it pertains to making learning permeable,
transparent, and independent of time, space and
place…?

22. Thank You!

23. “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and
doing new things, because we're curious and curiosit
keeps leading us down new paths." Walt Disney