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Schools: Anti-Connected? • Cell Phones • Laptops • Collaboration • Wolfram Alpha • Wikipedia • Cliff Notes
Agenda • Where Are We Today? • What Will It Take To Fix Things? • Finding What We’re Looking For! • Pecha Kucha
Generation M Multi-tasker Media Multi-Modal Multi-Nodal Variance (Differentiation) Makes Reaching Them Possible
Understanding the Individual Differentiation: “By definition, differentiation is wary of approaches to teaching and learning that standardize.Standard-issue students are rare, and educational approaches that ignore academic diversity in favor of standardization are likely to be counterproductive in reaching the full range of learners.” – Tomlinson (2006)
What’s Wrong With Education? FOR EVERY 100 9TH GRADERS 68 GRADUATE ON TIME OF THOSE, 40 ENROLL DIRECTLY IN COLLEGE OF THOSE, 27 ARE STILL ENROLLED THE FOLLOWING YEAR 82 DON’T MAKE IT! OF THOSE, 18 EARN AN ASSOCIATES DEGREE WITHIN 3 YEARS OR A B.A. WITHIN 6 YEARS. -- National center on education and the economy ncee.org
Are Students Life-Ready? • 2008 Oxford Survey of “Most Important Employee Skills” • Employers said employees achieved 15% of these regularly
Technology Demands Purpose • “Students know when technology without purpose is being imposed on them.” • Allan Heap, Center for Internet Technology Welding, Telescopes, Automotive, Microscopes, Cadavers, Architecture Software, Bridge Construction Tools, Etc
But Students Still Demand Technology… The average American student’s College / University is ____ miles from where the student lives: 1980: 5m 2006: 50m 2009: 78m Eduventures, 2009
Smarter Planet Experts Webcast: What needs to change in education? Stop ignoring research
Dr John Medina • “As I was writing Brain Rules, it hit me [that] if you wanted to design a learning environment that was directly opposed to what the brain is naturally good at doing, you would design something like a classroom.”
Smarter Planet Experts Webcast: What needs to change in education? Stop ignoring research Cross-curricular courses
Mystery @ MIT 400 Students 20 Faculty 2 Weekends Curriculum Integration Nursing Engineering Chemistry Journalism Political Science
Smarter Planet Experts Webcast: What needs to change in education? Stop ignoring research Cross-curricular courses Teach students how to be creative / innovative http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post/381892250/smarter-students-for-a-smarter-planet-live (Feb 10, 2010)
Creativity “Chief Executives believe that – more than rigor, management discipline, integrity, or even vision – navigating an increasingly complex world will require creativity.” 80% of employers seeking creative employees cannot find them to hire… IBM 2010 Global CEO Survey 1500 CEO’s from 60 Countries
Creativity “We Can Find Creative Solutions To Climate Change” – Hillary Clinton, 2009 “The oil industry can develop creative solutions to address climate change” –Sir Charles Nicholson (BP Oil) Innocentive • “Can Iococca’s Creativity Save Ford?” –Washington Post, 1964 • “Lean Financial Times Call For Creative Solutions” –NAA.org 2006 • “DOJ Looking For Creative Solutions For 21st Century Crime” –NY Times 2008 • “White House created a Social Innovation fund to help nonprofits and individuals working on creative solutions…” –Time Magazine 2009
Skeuomorph • “People will pick sexy over usable 7 times out of 10.” • Steve Jobs • Argumentum Ad Antiquitatem