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Switched On!

Switched On!. or only plugged in?. Which are you?. From this. To this. ...still in some schools today. Smaller group. Vast majority. Telecom CEO. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. ?. Hole in the wall. Sugata Mitra

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Switched On!

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  1. Switched On!

  2. or only plugged in?

  3. Which are you?

  4. From this To this.. ...still in some schools today.

  5. Smaller group Vast majority Telecom CEO

  6. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

  7. Hole in the wall... • Sugata Mitra • Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, • Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University , UK • Computers in walls • Slum areas • Children teaching children

  8. "Education-as-usual assumes that kids are empty vessels who need to be sat down in a room and filled with curricular content. Dr. Mitra's experiments prove that wrong." • Linux Journal

  9. Digital Native?

  10. And yet other digital natives...

  11. How many teenagers do you know that need to be constantly wired to their cellphone? Often having more than one!

  12. So what does this mean in our classrooms? “A growing number of business leaders, politicians, and educators are united around the idea that students need "21st century skills" to be successful today.”

  13. • student centred topics • students teaching students • collaborative learning • Education for Enterprise (E4E) – meeting a need in the community. • the integration of subjects within the one unit of study.

  14. …“The 21st century will require knowledge generation, not just information delivery, and schools will need to create a “culture of inquiry”…. Anne Shaw(2010)

  15. • Communicator • • Encourager • • Flexible • • Modeler • Risk-taker • Ring master/mistress • • Facilitator

  16. So… • One who encourages their students to learn with technology not from technology. Are you willing to become switched on?

  17. References: Books & Articles • Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R., & Crismond, D., (2008). What is meaningful learning? In Meaningful learning with technology (pp 1-12). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill-Prentice Hall. • Connecting the Sector ICT Strategic Framework for Education 2006–07 The Ministry of Education, on behalf of the education sector agencies and the National Library of New Zealand, November 2006 • Rotherham, A. J. and Willingham, D. (2009). 21st Century Skills: The Challenges Ahead, Teaching for the 21st Century, 67(1) 16-21. Downloaded 4th April, 2011 from     http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept09/vol67/num01/21st-Century-Skills@-The-Challenges-Ahead.aspx • Selwyn, N. (2009). The digital native – myth and reality. Aslib Proceedings, 61(4), 364. • Doi:10.1108/00012530910973776 • Shaw, A., What is 21st Century Education?. Downloaded 9th April, 2011 from http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm ★ • Silva, E. (2008). Measuring skills for the 21st century. Washington, DC:Education Sector. Downloaded 14th April, 2011 from www.educationsector.org/usr_doc/MeasuringSkills.pdf • Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education. Downloaded 9 April, 2011 from http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html • ★On obtaining permission to use this article I was also asked to advertise the fact that Anne Shaw is running a workshop in Melbourne(May), should anyone be interested. • Check it out at http://www.chaptersinternational.com/mailer/21st_Century_Classroom.html

  18. References: Images & VideosIn the same order as the slides. • Which are you? Image downloaded 16th April, 2011 from http://www.sterlingtimes.org/memorable_images53.htm • Old school room. Image downloaded on 12 April, 2011, from http://www.21stcenturyschools.comWhat_is_21st_Century_Education.htm • More modern classroom. Image downloaded 12th April, 2011 from http://www.fotothing.com/saxophonegirl/photo/61a253a852094a9f12e94e5ebd8ae7f6/ • Red shirt. Image downloaded on 12 April, 2011, from http://www.fotothing.com/pinko/photo/d6cad5116b2a0e46c32a7fa1e2619c84/ • Office workers. Image downloaded on 12 April, 2011, from http://www.fotothing.com/dopeman/photo/11a05cbf57199c7af99783c7c2ae3cff/ • Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds Image downloaded on 15 April, 2011, from http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/3594608/Judgement-time-for-Telecom-boss • Humanwire: Hole in the wall. Image downloaded on 15 April, 2011 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2_CjRbZ5EI&feature=related • Humanwire: The Hole in the wall. Video downloaded on 13 April, 2011, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2_CjRbZ5EI&feature=fvwrel • Small boy, red top. Image downloaded on 11th April, 2011 from http://www.fotothing.com/Huize675/photo/6382c30c9f2806668722ce44a90c685f/ • Worried girl. Image downloaded on 11th April, 2011 from http://www.fotothing.com/hosami/photo/b4ee113e2b05469d17669750bf94c7c6/ • Open mouthed boy. Image downloaded on 16th April, 2011 from http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm • Wee girl. Image downloaded on 10th April, 2011 from http://www.masternewmedia.org/live-teaching-and-learning-marketplaces-the-emerging-online- social-learning-networks Live Learning Marketplaces Photo credit: Wong Sze Fei • Laptop with lizards. Image downloaded on 11th April, 2011 from http://www.fotothing.com/Sonny/photo/5731c0cc68fc9691a887e984999d36ec/ • Girl on phone. Image downloaded on 11th April, 2011 from from http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photos-the-girl-is-dared-by-phone-rimagefree2229435- resi3326264 • Cellphones. Image downloaded on 13th April, 2011 from http://www.fotothing.com/Joe/photo/c59a70a400d8d94e6bf4ca51d4a212e7 • Knitting granny. Image downloaded on 13th April, 2011 from http://www.wpclipart.com/people/female/women_3/granny_knitting.png.html • Small girl pointing at laptop. Image downloaded on 13th April, 2011 from http://www.dreamstime.com/free-stock-image-child-with-laptop-2- rimagefree2074078-resi3326264 • Tightrope walker. Image downloaded on 16th April, 2011 from http://www.fotothing.com/Joe/photo/c0c433c8efb60f3deb097dc1d355400c/ • Chimps talking. Image downloaded on 16th April, 2011 from http://www.fotothing.com/Nefertari/photo/753dbade8c61c30daa4ec36671908ddb/

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