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Schools: Anti-Connected?
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Dr. Jeff D Borden
Dr. Jeff D Borden
Learning Today
Agenda
•Where Are We Today?
•What Will It Take To
Fix Things?
•Finding
What We’re
Looking For!
•Pecha Kucha
Where Are We Today?
Evolution of Generational Learning
Generation M
•Multi-tasker
•Media
•Multi-Modal
•Multi-Nodal
•Variance
(Differentiation)
Makes Reaching
Them Possible
Variance (Variety)
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)
Clasped Hands
But We Also Know We Have Problems…
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
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
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DON’T
MAKE IT!
Are Students Life-Ready?
• 2008 Oxford
Survey of “Most
Important
Employee
Skills”
• Employers said
employees
achieved 15%
of these
regularly
History Pin
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
What Will It Take List #1: Educators
Smarter Planet Experts Webcast: What needs
to change in education?
1. Stop ignoring research
We Know (more) About the Brain…
RED
BLUE
GREEN
YELLOW
BLUE
RED
YELLOW
GREEN
BLUE
GREEN
RED
YELLOW
Active Learning
We Know Research…
Insert game slide
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?
1. Stop ignoring research
2. Cross-curricular courses
Mystery @ MIT
•400 Students
•20 Faculty
•2 Weekends
•Curriculum Integration
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Nursing
Engineering
Chemistry
Journalism
Political Science
Smarter Planet Experts Webcast: What needs
to change in education?
1. Stop ignoring research
2. Cross-curricular courses
3. Teach students how to be creative / innovative
http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post/381892250/smarter-students-for-asmarter-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
• “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
• “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
Skeuomorph
• “People will pick sexy over usable 7 times out
of 10.”
– Steve Jobs
• Argumentum Ad Antiquitatem
Skeuomorph
Skeuomorphs
Skeuomorph
Better Ways
Better Ways
Why Do We…
The Mixxer
Conrad Wolfram
Dan Meyer: Compelling Questions
Compelling Questions
Compelling Questions
Will He Make It?
Personalizing Creativity
• In Groups, please answer the following
questions:
• 1. What is the best illustration of curriculum
integration that you know can share here?
• 2. How will instructors connect content and
curriculum across classroom (disciplinary)
lines in the near future?
• 3. What is an original example of curriculum
integration within your discipline?
Smarter Planet Experts Webcast: What needs
to change in education?
1. Stop ignoring research
2. Cross-curricular courses
3. Teach students how to be creative / innovative
4. Teach core, communication, and collaboration
competencies
Today’s Learning Competencies: T
Shapes
• Core Competencies
• Literacy, Math, Science, Critical Thinking, Social Sciences,
Reasoning, Pattern Recognition
• Creative Competencies
• Innovation, Resourcefulness, Problem Solving / Finding
• Communication / Collaboration Competencies
• Linguistic, Technological, Interpersonal, Group, Narrative
• Cultural Competencies
• The World Is Flat, Micro-cultures, Macro-cultures
• Computer Competencies
• Social, Search, Process
Communication Competence
• Nonverbal Communication: 86%
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Haptics
Objectics
Proxemics
Chronemics
Optics
Vocalics
Kinesics
• Facial Mirroring
Mirroring
Smarter Planet Experts Webcast: What needs
to change in education?
1. Stop ignoring research
2. Cross-curricular courses
3. Teach students how to be creative / innovative
4. Teach core, communication, and collaboration
competencies
5. Real life – Practical (Authentic) Assessment
6. Personalized Learning
http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post/381892250/smarter-students-for-asmarter-planet-live (Feb 10, 2010)
What We’re Looking For
What I’m Looking For…
Create
Consume
Remix
Share
Edu-Blogger:
• YouTube Video: Have You Been Paying Attention?
• “…Has anyone seen this garbage? Students don’t need
to remix anything! Educators must teach them to be
original, have original thought, and do original work!
Imagine if society worked this way.
• We’d still be hoping someone would invent the rolling
stone so as to create a wheel. Imagine a world where
using other people’s work to create your own was ok.
• We’d never have gotten past the toaster to see the
benefits of the microwave. We’d never have gotten
past swing music to experience amazing original works
like Elton John’s “The Lion King” or other seminal
works…”
Remix, Sample or Steal?
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South
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Thank You!
Dr Jeff D Borden
VP of Instruction & Academic Strategy
jeffb@ecollege.com