Reinventing Education for the 21st-Century (Designing School 2.0)

2:00-3:00 Tuesday Session Notes: Reinventing Education for the 21st-Century (Designing School 2.0):

Try out the Digital Literacy site. What is School 2.0? How can we support it?

What is it going to take to thrive in 2065?  What skill set is needed? How should education change?

No simple answer. It’s not just about having a computer and using it. It’s what they are doing with the technology.

Very easy to do poor teaching and leadership (worksheets, showing videos, etc.)

We need to acknowledge change, accept it and move towards it. There is no silver bullet.

Showed a video, When I become a teacher. By Marco Torres. Pokes fun at teacher stereotypes which are barriers to change. Challenge to be a reflective practitioner.

Personal Learning Network is becoming a popular term in staff development. K12Online Conference–completely online and free. Check this out and consider “attending” and/or having my students attend.

The importance of having students create/publish for a global audience. Changes everything. You need to provide a way for students to publish to a global audience. Students need to be taught to deal with the real bad world.

Our students deserve better than they often get. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it–Alan Kay”

Digital schools vs. transformative school. Digital schools use technology but fundamentally don’t change what students do and how they do it. Education Evolving looks at school change. They have 6 premises. Check this out.

Dominant technology determines results. Pencil vs. computer. Teacher part is the hardest in the equation. Convenient vs. Best for Kids.

School bells are so 20th Century. What about seat-time? Does this make sense?

With Personal Learning Networks, you can find your own mentor(s) irregardless of time or place.

You need buy-in by administrators. They need to change for change to happen throughout school. Check out Alabama Best Practices Center.

Greater Houston Education Collaboration. People are excited, enthused, meet regularly face-to-face and using technology. Try exploring their web site.