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world around us these digital and global
technologies of using everything work globally interconnected with people and
places them
never been connected before in this digital global he's doing out there were
finding that
for the most part our schools are neither of those
schools are supposedly knowledge institutions we teach kids to be masters
in information
any if you look at the real world be on schools and beyond universities is how
knowledge workers do their jobs its you know
you doing of computers here we are we're pretending they were preparing students
for knowledge work
in a knowledge economy very hyper-connected hyper-competitive
global knowledge economy you were doing ring binders and notebook paper
well it was a media murder
these days it's also very different I'm not sure there will be a power
students these days take full advantage of the wide variety of learning
opportunities
digital technology internet so on ways to make a powerful members
not just now in the years to come
I'm
so much on BART station paradigm for the last 100 years has been focused on
factual recall
low-level procedure allows the kinda stuff that you can be easily and cheaply
assessed with bubble bath
and what we're finding is that kinda knowledge
is ubiquitous these days instead of suffering from now scarcity
stuffing from information overload any backed that in any textbook
run anywhere she turning into chapter practice questions whatever
you can easily find on the web in a hundred different forms
we have the skill ourselves up to a higher level of knowledge work
lower level work which students spend about DVD
my purse and the DVD ask time doesn't really have any kind of economic value
anymore we still need to Novaks we still need to know stuff
there we going to find information on the internet with your
think critically about what does it mean but nobody's records came back to
anymore
these days and get paid for I'm said whether
being asked to do is working do with that knowledge when you think about that
now
to create new value now so much that's all
upper level work supplying synthesizing analyzing that screening
doing I think you're walking into iPhones
school these days kids are doing their thinking they're creating they're making
they're interacting collaborating communing getting them in critical
thinkers having problem solvers
they're more self-directed in terms of their learning so they can be deep and
passionate about something
really express that Weezer irrelevant attic we have been working on real world
projects not artificial
were problems from the textbook so so I think that's what I really hyped
school looks like it's one that gives kids greater autonomy greater choice
better self-direction and empowering kids to do that work which
in most cases means that used computers are using the Internet please
video they're using you know collaboration tools using whatever is
necessary to get the job
home
everything is becoming technologies views so
your heart press these days to find a job out there pays well
where he do any kind of thinking whatsoever that is inherently
technologies
views so how do we start getting kids access to you
laptop computers iPad netbooks
digital camcorders where they need to do that kinda
higher-level academic were learning work mentor
like his dad make those pools
armor systems of persons online systems available to students we find that
they're much more people
I'm doing things that we thought they were before we have school districts
right now we have seventh-graders
they're using the same kinda
virtual-reality design software and aerospace engineers
Rock Colo we have students were
creating robust online conversations bases
doing professional level video editing undergoing to express themselves and
communicate
and create knowledge products
that we used to say you have to be 25 30 you know
and have years of experience in your job you were to be able to do and how they
do it as a middle school and high school
I'm so what we're finding is that when we can get
tools in the hands of our students the Amazons
on a regular basis level of work you
forcing another movement occurring out there which is
that students are increasingly learning from machines and software
from alive being so that may be a virtual teacher
somewhere else this increasingly software with a simulation was a video
game
words some kind of self-paced Internet experience
so and enforce this offer want to push that information out can also
assess learning and mastering those lower level mental outcomes
in a variety of ways just like freezing worksheets
multiple choice questions fill in the blanks for
crossword puzzles for short essays and so on the software's
really want to do all that kind of work which means that
you know we have to start thinking as educators what's our value-added above
and beyond
what this offer can doing these days I think in the future gonna see that
burning suffered not only handle the lower them into work but increasingly
through simulations it be okay Mike environments
artificial intelligence agencies can also tell us that is what you know
what can you do with what how do you apply
one thing we have to recognize is that wondering is exploding
honoring still has a fairly minor role
here in Iowa we have a few mining opportunities available to students but
nowhere near
water capacity means these new communication tools are in even talking
to do capabilities
were signed rapper head around the idea that a teenager can have a global
audience in the tens of thousands hundreds of thousands
million zemin right it's not uncommon out to do you do
see some video some adolescent me you know
racking up five ten twelve million views we're seeing
writing spaces like fanfiction not network kids aren't doing
interest-based fiction writing program
but communities books or movies or TV shows that they love and the writing
stories senators
sending universes those characters in the running tens of thousands of workers
possible because they love those characters and those literary or
media universe is so much interactively soliciting
be back where they want to be better writers so the Internet does it enables
us to have
Voice rights so many of us are able to have a voice they were never
people have before also allows us to find each other's voices
on an end to work together in ways that we weren't able to
and at and he was a lot released in collaboration
opportunism earning opportunities
haven't got past the geographic mindset yet
geography matters West jobs location depends actually matters not a whit
finding is that yes and said you know are competing with people just your
account to your state all over the country and all over the world
wherever you so whenever you're selling whenever you're offering
captured charisma for sure you're providing
we're right here primaries you know minds here
around there are hundreds if not thousands attend about
about people all around the world are also doing that so this
new globalized interconnected economy has huge implications
for the economic side terms workforce preparation
kind of skills we need to maintain it
viduals his workers and employers throughout our entire lives
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think we're we're still owes slower to change is
was dating instruction was dated a learning
look like think we're still very much stock always
thinking and doing be we seem to want to just
at a1 to work early we never take anything off point
and there's lots of creative ways to you stop doing things that we're currently
doing
and do other things that are more important where that better
move us in the direction that we need to go when a common refrain from here for
many communities
board members superintendent spirit center is that you know budget times are
already tapped their re-take how do we handle this
night government say two things to those books the first one is
recognize that there are other school systems and look a lot like yours
i dropping the same policy environments in regulatory environments in funding
environment that you are
about the same size you this summer and the communities yet they're making this
happen
go find some other places that look like you roughly
Brian and talk about how did they make this year had a baby purpose person now
im
funding streams and so I want to get ready to go the biggest thing they're
doing is they're facilitating instructional chains
tenor and tone of the class a much different yes eighty-five percent of
kids did a class from work now is lower level factory call procedural knowledge
how do we start shifting that up towards the upper end of Blooms Taxonomy
for example doing higher level work and ask really with allusions to commit
retailer
we're gonna walk away from some things to me we've held here in the past
the world is changing around as we have to change too and that means that
burning looks different in this teaching much different that means the curriculum
which different that means that
resource in which the contingent staffing looks different I think
everybody's recognizing that we're in a transition period
very tumultuous it's very turbulent to take teachers who sometimes haven't
eaten for several decades
writer told just the way he should be structure
an hour said we gonna do all this use that instead got him
lower-level artwork to hire no your
learning technologies and with its powerful the technology is a tool in a
means to an end
but the end is awfully high alert was the world by
now 1 well the world by 510 fifteen twenty years from now
how do we start preparing kids for there's lotsa really
stuff that's out there available to us just a
decide we're gonna do it your own