Dimensions

=Dimensions of Change in Education=

//If you think our future will require better schools, you're wrong.// The future of education calls for entirely new kinds of learning environments.

//If you think we will need just better teachers, you're wrong.// Tomorrow’s learners will need educational activists who are globally connected and take on fundamentally different roles

As every dimension of our world evolves so rapidly, the education challenges of tomorrow will require solutions that go far beyond today’s answers. Think in terms of preparing kids for their future- not ours. (adapted from http://www.futureofed.org/)

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What are the New Media Literacies?
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=Walk About= There are 3 sets of 4 charts on the walls with markers. What I would like for you to do is get in groups of 10-12 in front of a chart. The task is to read the prompt and then as a group brainstorm your responses. Have one person from your group list in bulleted form your ideas. Each group will have a few minutes to talk and share ideas. After about 5 minutes your group will move clockwise to the next chart. Where you will have 4-5 minutes to do the same with the new prompt. Then we will move to the next chart where your group will have 3 minutes. //(The time gets shorter per rotation because so many ideas are already represented on each chart.)// **NOTE:** teams take the marker with them when they rotate so their responses are in the same color.
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After you have rotated 4 times your team should be back at it's original prompt.

=Reporting Out and Implications for our Instructional Leadership= //**Bonus Points for any group who takes a digital photo of your group's charts and embeds the photo(s) here under the prompt.**//

Once you end up at your starting place (in terms of prompt) then as a group synthesize the information. Do you agree? Any points of disagreement with what was added to your original thinking to this prompt? Make note. Then choose a speaker for your group and sit back down. We will report out by sharing the points of tension/agreement your group had while discussing each prompt.

**//Chart 1:// What about the world and society has changed since you (if you're over 30) or your parents went to school?**
 * //Chart 2:// What about students has changed since you (if you're over 30) or your parents went to school? **


 * //Chart 3:// How have schools changed since you and I went to school? **


 * //Chart 4:// What should School 2.0 look like in order to meet the needs of the 21st Century learner? Stretch. Think Different. Another way of looking at this is...In light of the changes that have taken place in our society in the last twenty years, what will it mean to be an educated adult in the twenty-first century? What do graduates need to know and be able to do to be well-prepared for college, careers, and citizenship in 10 years? **

 = Facilitated Discussion = = = 

How has the World Changed?
Think about how much the world has changed just since you and I went to school? How about how much it has changed since your parents went to school?

Watch the following clips and listen to the podcasts and let;s discuss your thinking about how the world has changed and the rate at which change is occurring. What does it take to be a global learner? Why is that important?

//**Click on each of these links to watch and listen.**//

**[|How the World Has Changed]**
[|Peter Vaill (Our Whitewater World)] [|Tom Carroll (Today's Transformative Society)]

How Students Have Changed?
===Have children changed over time? New brain research suggests they have. Watch **[|Growing Up Digital]** and share what resonated for you with this clip. Do you agree with John Dewey and John Seely Brown? Do you agree that self-guided learning is the way kids learn best today? How do you feel about the potential of educational gaming- or is it just techno-hype?===

Another way that students have changed is demographically. [|Watch this clip] and share with us how your classroom's demographic has changed over the last five years? Do you feel that ELL (ESL) students have different instructional needs? How so? What types of instructional delivery do you feel works best for these kids? Where does Web 2.0 (the new tools like blogs and wikis) play in that dynamic?

How Schools Have Changed?
Today's learner has been given different [|opportunities for learning] than you and I had. Traditionally, most of the opportunities for learning didn't happen within schools. Think of ancient Greece. How could the apprenticeship model play out today? Would helping your students develop personal learning networks enable them to have some of the depth and diversity in learning that students in the past experienced?

Originally [|public schools in America] consisted of mostly elementary schools. Today, most people feel that high school education is a necessary part of a good life. Do you agree?

Change is NEEDED so we do not have children with six hour handicaps
Have you ever known a child that in school was an at-risk learner, but outside of school was competent and capable? How about a student who comes back to see you years after they graduate and you find out they became much more successful than you ever thought possible.

[|Well this video explains why.] Jane Mercer's research proves that many kids we think are handicapped are simply situationally handicapped.