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The Third WaveCarolyn Stuart, NZ Principal November 2006

Wave 1 – Introduction of computers into school offices.

Wave 2 – Falling prices of computers, computers in classrooms, status & debate.

Wave 3 – allowing learners to collaborate & connect using computers and web-enabled technology in a much less teacher-directed way.

Why do we need to change what we’ve always done?

We haven’t always done it…

...we’ve just been doing it for a long time.

What have we been doing?

The education system, as most of the current generation of educators have

experienced it, was designed to filter and select

Secondary

A teacher perspective

Teachers tend to have a focus on “teaching” rather than “learning”, and might say/believe things like. .

• Some students can learn, others can’t.

• “This student shouldn’t be in my class.”

• “If a student is not learning well it’s because they are not working hard enough or they are simply not bright enough.”

Subjects that did the most effective filtering job (using written exams) were accorded the highest status.

A student perspective

Students might say/believe things like. . .

• “I’m no good at . . . “

• “Some are born smart, others are not and there is nothing much you can do about it”.

The most exclusive professions tend to be considered the most worthwhile and there is an inclination to follow careers that they get the marks to get into rather than that for which they might have a sense of ‘vocation.’

The model of schooling that saw primary education as focusing on

helping students learn to read, write, do arithmetic and become

good citizens and secondary education as providing a

preparatory pathway for a University education was developed

at the end of the last century.Priorities & Challenges for the New Millennium- Atkin, 2000

We used to focus on…

Getting children ready for school

and now we need to focus on

…getting schools ready for children.

Why?

Catching the Knowledge Wave? The Knowledge Society and the future of education.

- Jane Gilbert

Gilbert pages 4-6

What’s changed?

Campbell Live

These changes do not represent the usual process of adding to and improving existing ideas: rather

they represent a paradigm shift – a radical break with the past that

requires us to stop and completely rethink much of what we do.

Paradigm Shifts -Information is Power

From what is…

Textbook as sourceTeacher as tellerFacts are primaryInformation is packaged

Assessment:Seat workTest scoresgrades

To what ought to be

Variety of media/sourcesTeacher as guide/coachQuestions are primaryInformation is discovered

Multivariable assessment:SynthesisApplicationStudents produceTeachers critiqueDemonstrationTest scores

Breivik, P.S. & Senn, J.A. (1998) Information Literacy: educating children for the 21st century. Washington, DC: NEA pp 24,59.

Web 1.0   Web 2.0 and now Web 3.0

DoubleClick --> Google AdSense

Ofoto --> Flickr

Akamai --> BitTorrent

mp3.com --> Napster

Britannica Online --> Wikipedia

personal websites --> blogging

evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB

domain name speculation --> search engine optimization

page views --> cost per click

screen scraping --> web services

publishing --> participation

content management systems

--> wikis

directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy")

stickiness --> syndication

Creating with ICTUser created content…

Taking the Leap

Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

Gilbert – page -14-15

Digital Natives

Today’s students – Primary through to tertiary represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They

have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital

music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital

age.

2005 Kids

Digital Natives

•School, we power down for it

•Email is for old people

•Click it, get it

•We can get past the blocked sites

•Net Nazis!!!!

•Second Life is cool

Digital Immigrants

So what does that make the rest of us? Those of us who were not born into the

digital world but have, at some later point in our lives, become fascinated by and

adopted many or most aspects of the new technology are, and always will be

compared to them.

From: www.marcprensky.com

Our Digital Natives are 21st Century Learners

Everything, almost everything, is only a click away…information comes

directly to their phone, computer, PDA, iPod etc.

In a world of social software, how do we know what to teach?

Blogs

Wikis

Social Networks

Social Guides

Social Bookmarking

Virtual Worlds

Collaborative Real-time Editors

Peer-to-peer Internet Telephony

Second Life

Skype

Skrbl

Multi-modal Literacy

Gilbert (2005), argues that visual symbols –images, graphs, diagrams, symbols, gestures, 3D objects, and so on – are

becoming more important than print, and the screen is taking over from the book as

the main medium for representing and communicating ideas.

The world told or narrated, is very different from the world shown, or

depicted.

There are also other modes of representation – sounds, music,

movements, smells even – all of which are deployed in today’s meaning

systems.

Knowing how to behave when you

don’t know.

Habits of MindPersisting

Managing impulsivity

Listening to others – with understanding and empathy

Thinking flexibly

Thinking about our thinking (Metacognition)

Striving for accuracy and precision

Questioning and posing problems

Applying past knowledge to new situation

Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision

Gathering data through all senses

Creating, imagining and innovating

Responding with wonderment and awe

Taking responsible risks

Finding humour

Thinking interdependently

Learning continuously

Thinking

Using language,

symbols and texts

Relating to others

Managing self

Participating and

contributing

What do you think your children and the children in your care, need to learn?

What skills and competencies should they leave your school

with?

Brainstorm

Change our mental model about Knowledge

The shift in emphasis from knowledge to knowing is important. Knowing is a

process, whereas knowledge is a thing. Knowing is a verb. It involves doing

things and acting on things. It involves building relationships and connections.

What are other schools doing successfully?

• Underlying pedagogical focus• PD includes coaching & mentoring• PD includes accountabilities• Teachers demonstrate activities • Focus on learning outcomes• Evidence of student achievement • Reflect, review, refocus etc.• Learning community is active• Teachers and SM model the use of ICTs

What teachers can do now..• Work together more (your cluster is a good start)

• Think of new ways to timetable

• Develop their skills for working with students in small groups

• Engage students in real-world research projects (not just for the chosen few)

• Develop databases of community contacts

• Focus on developing systems level understanding (How do scientists know what they know? What are the limits of this knowledge? What can Science not tell us?

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ICT ClusterApanui

Ohope Beach

Allandale

St Joseph’sParoa

James Street

When you are wandering through the school, what do you want to see?

Process

School as we know it.School as we know it.

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