Our Students • Our Worlds

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Preparing a Workforce that could work...

• In straight rows • Performing repetitive tasks • Under close supervision

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This is what we know about the future we are preparing our children for -- almost nothing!

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For the first time in history Our job as educators Is to prepare our children For a future That We can not clearly describe.

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This is profound, that we can not predict the future.

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Unpredictable Future

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Did you know that if Walmart was a country, it would now be China’s largest trading partner?

Did you know that UPS now ships more than 13.5 million packages a day? That means that at any moment 2% of the worlds gross domestic product (GDP) is in the back of a UPS truck.

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Did you know that 43% of all Chines college graduates in 2003, earned degrees in engineering? In the U.S. it was only 4%.

More than half of NASA’s 18,000 employees are over the age of 50.

The employees over 60 out number those who are younger than 30.

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Florida, Richard. "Importance of Fostering Creativity in Education." SAS. Friday Institute, Raleigh, NC. 22 Feb 2006.

Richard Florida & Daniel Pink Gain 200,000 Science & Engineering Jobs 400,000 creative arts jobs (visual arts, Lose another 500,000 manufacturing jobs

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music, drama, culture, & entertainment)

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We seem more interested in what the creative arts contributors invest in our products.

He’s not investing in the technology!

He’s investing in the Story!

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They were born after • The Reagan era • The Persian Gulf War • The walkman

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Most of them were born after • The breakup of the Soviet Union • Tiananmen Square • Compact Discs had been around for a decade.

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They have never • Played Pac Man or Pong • Listened to an 8-track • Purchased a vinyl album

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• Seen a TV with less than 100 channels • Heard “Where’s the Beef?”, “I’d walk a mile for a camel”, or “de plane, de plane.”

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They’re Smart & Connected ..and very few have any formative recollection of the 20th century

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We chop their communication tentacles off. We have only a few years to figure out how to channel learning through their tentacles.

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Info-Oriented Students

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He learned how to do this because he is connected -- because he knows how to find people who can help him learn, what he needs to know, to do what he needs to do.

This is the real wedge of the digital divide.

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So who, among us, really understands social networks. We can deconstruct them, but does replicating Facebook create better learning experiences?

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Got Game by John Beck & Mitchell Wade

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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

by James Paul Gee

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Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning! By Marc Prensky

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How Computer Games Help Children Learn By David Williamson Shaffer

The Kids are Alright: How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace by John Beck & Mitchell Wade

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Machinima

a collection of associated production techniques whereby computer-generated imagery (CGI) is rendered using realtime, interactive 3-D engines, such as those of games, instead of professional 3D animation software. [Wikipedia]

We see information as a product

They see information as a raw material

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I N F O R MATI O N ?

Information 1.0.

Information sources are place to consume content.

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I N F O R MATI O N ?

Information 2.0, information that we participate with.

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http://wikipedia.org/

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Davis, Matthew. "Congress 'Made Wikipedia Changes'." BBCNews 9 Feb 2006 12 Nov 2006 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4695376.stm>.

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Davis, Matthew. "Congress 'Made Wikipedia Changes'." BBCNews 9 Feb 2006 12 Nov 2006 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4695376.stm>.

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Who seems more interested in helping us get to the best information, the source that is willing to warn us, or the source that seems more interested in protecting its own authority.

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Info-Oriented Students

New Information Landscape

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Eli Lilly’s InnoCentive (http://innocentive.com/) project brokers corporations (i.e., Boeing, Dupont, Procter & Gamble) with problems-solvers for ornery scientific challenges.

In a time

of “We actually found rapid change, the odds of a the answers to solver’s success brand new increased in fields in which they had questions may no formal come from expertise.”

-- Karim Lakhani something that somebody wrote yesterday, in his blog or his wiki.

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Lenhart, Amanda and Mary Madden. "Teen Content Creators and Consumers...." Pew Internet & American Life Project. 2 Nov 2005. Pew Charitable Trust. 9 Aug 2007 <http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/ PIP_Teens_Content_Creation.pdf>.

64% of teenagers have produced original digital content and published it.

From the perspective of their information experience, our students are more literate than we are!

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Khosla, Vinod."ITConversations." Vinod Khosla: In Conversations with John Battelle. Web 2.0 Conference, San Francisco. 5 Oct 2005. Audio Archive. 25 Nov 2005 <http://www.itconversations.com/ shows/detail796.html>.

Bauder, David. Decline in TV Viewership has the Networks Worried." Deseret News [Salt Lake City]9 May 2007 "Proadband Meets Broadcast." informitv News. 4 Feb 2007. informitv. 16 Jan 2008 <http:// informitv.com/articles/2007/02/04/youtubeviewerswatch/>.

Vinod Khosla Content today is the dominant thing. But one thing that I can say, is that • …it is going to be the company that can grow and maintain audiences (not content).

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Founding CEO of Sun Microsystems

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The Beacon School 227 West 61st Street New York, NY

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Info-Oriented Students

New Information Landscape

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Audience Chat, "Our Students • Our Worlds." Irving Unified School District. Irving, TX. 14 Aug 2007.

Info-Oriented Students • Work in responsive environments • Communicate • Share personal experience & identity • Form & participate in communities

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Info-Oriented Students

New Information Landscape

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•Networked •Digital •Abundant

New Information Landscape

 What does it mean to be literate?  What are the new pedagogies of abundant information environments?

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Info-Oriented Students

New Information Landscape

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It’s Not just Literacy…

It’s learning-Literacy

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It’s Not just Literacy skills…

It’s Literacy Habits Our Students • Our Worlds David Warlick Thursday, April 24, 2008

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It’s Not just Lifelong Learning…

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"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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