Cindy KendallIngham Intermediate School District

Mason, MI

Introduce yourself

My name is (name) and I teach (what, where). I am like a (object) because (use your imagination).

Are we preparing teens for this world?Sell to and buy from the worldWork for international companiesWork with and perhaps manage employees from

other cultures and countriesCollaborate with people all over the world in joint

venturesCompete globallyServe locallyThe U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s

learner will have 10-14 jobs … By the age of 38.

For what kind of world is schooling preparing students?

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .

In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

- David Warlick

In what world are our children living?

Quote – choice - history In a few hundred years, when the history of our time

will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the

first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing

numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

-Peter DruckerRetrieved 11/15/08 from http://www.heartquotes.net/Technology.html

In what world are our children living?

Literacy“Literacy has always been about using the most powerful cultural tools available to make and communicate meaning. At the present, those tools happen to be multimedia tools that use video, graphics, sound, and traditional text in a hypermedia format. If we or our students don't know how to critically use these tools to their fullest meaning-constructive potential, then we—and they—are illiterate.”

-Jeff Wilhelm

Creating new content is a key to understanding.

Everybody creates.

So find opportunities to create with content!

And the theorists and research support creating meaningful content…

Seymour Papert – ConstructivismGeorge Siemens – ConnectivismIvan Illich – DeschoolingLev Vygotsky – Zone of Proximal

DevelopmentRand Spiro – Cognitive Flexibility

Today we are going to explore ways to