The Next Step

Live Blogging NECC 2008

David Warlick’s – Our Students Our Worlds
21st Century Global Learning

What kind of library might I design if Im not constrained by walls.  Shows example of file cabinet on 2nd life.

In straight rows, performing repetitive tasks, under close supervision. How old schools are designed, and what was required for industrial jobs.

We have to teach our kids to be able to prosper in a time of rapid change where we can’t predict the future and there jobs can’t be defined yet.

Develop a workforce where workers can create a niche career for themselves based on their creativity and developed skill set.

May want to read Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind, resonates deeply in the ed community.

May want to read Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class

For the sake of our economy, we need to invest in creative students.  The creative class jobs are opening up.  Keep art classes, drama classes, and history classes going.

Today’s kids have “no formative recollection of the 20th century.”   Our high school students enter at 14.  Born in 1994 so 6 at turn of century.

Kids dont have to say goodbye when they leave HS today because connecting is so easy that they don’t expect to leave forever or leave anybody behind.

I wondering about the digital divide.  He speaks of kids wexpecting to have the ability to access the tech they normally use once they enter classroom.  What about the at-risk kids that are so far behind.

Kids need to know how to find people to get help from.  We have to teach them to develop personal learning networks they can turn to an instant.

Real danger of digital divide is the network connected kids have but kids left behind will be alone and wont be able to access information within networks.  We need broadband for all kids.

Entire country of Macedonia is wireless.  But in US, if you can afford it you can have if not too bad.  Must change.

Need to have deep conversations with kids to try and discover the real value behind social networks so that we can just use one and dont need a separate one for everything.

Kids have invented a new grammar through IM and Text language which is developed for 21st century.

Wombat = waste of money, brains, and time

Video games coming up as new learning engines. Spore

Games Learning Society, conference about using games for learning

“machinima” production techniques with computer generated imagery rendered using 3-d tools

Our students think of things as raw material where we had cd’s to listen, books to read, movies to watch, but kids think about how they can remix that data and create something new

the Longtail learner, review a little more

lulu.com self publishing, you must market yourself, also get indiv. web page on the site.

We need to create producers of content, and teach how to do properly.

Innocentive, problem solving site

64% of teenagers have produced original digital content and published it online, they more literate in many ways than teachers.
Ajax Chat possible back channel option for future presentations

Handouts available at http://handouts.davidwarlick.com