Students Wired Up or Tuned Out?

What digital footprint will you and your student teachers leave in your classrooms this year?

InterInter-Institutional Teacher Education Council of West Michigan October 15, 2010

Our Challenges
Shifts in knowledge and skills society values Development of new methods of teaching and learning Changes in the characteristics of learners How we assess learners How are you preparing the teachers of tomorrow to assist these learners? Emerging information technologies are these reshaping each of theseand changing how we learn and know.

Information scarce Students need to memorize, follow instructions Learning not related to other content areas Students work in a closed environment National citizenship

Information abundant Students learn to create and problem-solve Content integrated with other subjects, real world Students work across multiple boundaries Global citizenship

Between 1960 and 2000, the percentage of Americans 25 or older with a high school diploma has doubled. Between 1987 and 2006, SAT scores have increased for every subgroup. More students are taking more rigorous courses than ever before.

Black, Latino, and low SES students are, on average, 2 years behind white students of the same age in academic achievement. Minority majority by 2023. 1.3 Million students dropped out in 2009, or 7,150 students each day, one student every 25 seconds. Student achievement in the U.S. lags behind other industrialized nations. KThe K-12 system is not preparing students for postsuccess in post-secondary education.

U.S. high school graduation rate has dropped from 1st to 18th out of 24 industrialized nations. In 1995, U.S. ranked 1st in percentage of young adults with a college degree. By 2006 dropped to 14th. yearOut of 30 countries, U.S. 15 year-olds ranked 25th in math, 21st in science, 15th in reading, and 24th in problem solving on the most recent PISA exam.

1/3 of American students entering higher education are assigned to remedial courses. Almost 80% have a G.P.A. of 3.0 or higher. Only 12% of students assigned to remedial bachelor reading in college earn a bachelors degree. Approximately 30% of college freshman do not return to their school for their sophomore year. The U.S. has one of the highest college drop out rates in the world.

--ACT (2008)

Are They Really Ready to Work? Employers perspectives on the basic knowledge and applied skills of new entrants to the 21st century U.S. workforce, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2006

Schools will need to be able to educate a more diverse student population. Schools will need to prepare students to interact in a more diverse society and collaborate in a more diverse work environment. More diverse U.S. society, which will be reflected in the workplace, but also. International collaboration, global work teams.

Today youthTodays youth-Kids are wired differently! Digital learners Multimedia Find and manipulate data Analyze data and images Pre4Pre-frontal cortex can process information 4-6 times faster than adults

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We will have more power in 1 device than what we had in the last 35 years!!!

We are preparing students for a world fundamentally different than the world schools were designed to prepare students for AND a world we were not prepared for. We need to ask the Dr. Phil ultimate question So hows that working for you?

and summarize it in one page.

She is not daunted by this.

So 20th century!

Any time Any place Any path Any pace

The data for computer-based learning suggests that by 2019, about 50% of high school courses will be delivered online.

Harvard Study using virtual assessments that are mapping the cognition of learners. (NSES Model of Inquiry) Students take on the identity of a scientist, complete quests for for 90 minutes with four phases: orientation, problem identification, experimentation, completing explanations Where students went With whom they communicated and what they said What artifacts they activated What databases they viewed What data they gathered using virtual scientific instruments teamWhat screenshots and notations they placed in team-based virtual notebooks http://virtualassessments.org/

Can not be about learning, it has to be about unlearning unlearning Role of Professional Learning Communities
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What is it our students must learn as a result of this course, this grade level, this unit? How will we know our students are learning? What evidence will we gather to assess their learning? don How will we respond when they dont learn? How can we extend and enrich the learning for those who are already proficient?

Will your students be:

More curious leaving school or your classroom than when they arrived? Adept at learning? Informed consumers? Thinkers and analyzers? ProblemProblem-solvers? Producers with their own voice? Collaborators?

studentWill your student-teachers be ready to teach these learners and what will they take away from working under your supervision?

R C We must fuse the three Rs with the four Cs

Critical Thinking Communication Skills Collaboration/Team Building Creativity and Innovation www.P21.org

Educators are a revenue source not an expense source. We can significantly impact dropthe drop-out rates and the expenses related to this.

I influence the results of my students, and the results are important to me. (The notion of efficacy.) I care about how my students perform and the only difference is the result of the work that I did. Data has to have a face name and a nameit has to be connected to a student.

For taking on not only the responsibility of educating the next generation of students but Taking on the responsibility of preparing the future generation of teachers. Both are an awesome responsibility.

We need to stop seeing ourselves as teachers and start seeing ourselves as learners. Our value for schools is no longer content, it must be about learning in a 21st Century. If we think that schools are a place where people will come for content, we are missing the point and will no longer be needed. Is technology part of your learning culture?

As cooperating teachers, how will you use technology to collaborate with each other? How will you use technology to interface with your student teachers? How will you collaborate with your learners?

The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read or write, but those who relearn. cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler

Do not confine your children to your own learning, since they were born in another time. -Chinese Proverb