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Staff illuminating learning
The document discusses the vision for the Illuminating Learners District to get students and staff "plugged into" learning in the 2010-2011 school year. It envisions learners today as creators, remixers, collaborators, and owners of their own learning. It also discusses how learners today have access to more information resources and can create and share digital content, and that collaboration and sharing knowledge is expected. Finally, it discusses connecting learners inside and outside of classrooms through various technologies.
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- 1. Illuminating Learners DistrictFocus 2010 â 2011 Getting students and all staff âplugged intoâ learning
- 2. Learners = Gettingeach of us âplugged intoâ learning Students Teachers Principals Office staff Central support Parents Community Each of us!
- 3. A Vision ofK-12 Learners Today Creators Remixers Collaborators Contributors Owners of their learning
- 4. Are You Ready?To reinvent, redesign and reshape the learning experience for students and each of us?
- 5. Or do youwant toâŠâŠ
- 6. Do you consideryourself a: Learner? Student? Teacher? â The brain is said to be the most important organ in the human body, but we have only the brainâs word for itâ â Kurt Vonnegut
- 7. Do you consideryourself a: Learner? Student? Teacher?
- 8. Teach Less, LearnMore Singapore has been successful in updating and modernizing their educational system. They had chosen to focus on 21st Century Skills as the backbone to their overhaul. The deputy director of Curriculum Policy and Pedagogy, Tay Lai Ling, is quoted as saying: "We have come a long way in changing our teaching and learning methods, but our teachers and students still have farther to go. We have a new slogan at the Ministry that will hopefully encourage further change. The new slogan is Teach Less, Learn More ." todaysmeet.com/learnmore
- 9. This century we'regoing to learn a lesson about what it means to be unable to forget anything. (Charles Stross)
- 10. Learners todayâŠ. Haveaccess to a far greater number of information resources than traditional learning environments provided Enjoy new opportunities to create, remix, and share digital content thanks to the Internet
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- 12. Learners todayâŠ. belongto a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know and contribute to a culture where collaboration is an expected learning practice "The illiterate of the 21 st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler Learners want to do more than participate in their learning, they want to contribute to the knowledge created and presented by their peers.
- 13. Learning Opportunity: Whatare the tallest statues in the United States? todaysmeet.com/tallstatue
- 14. What resources didyou use?
- 15. How do youpresent your learning? Report or presentation (print or digital) Images (chart, graph) Video Web page (collaborative tools)
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- 18. Connecting learners⊠Inclassrooms At home On the street At their friendsâ homes At Starbucks On multiple devices Everywhere All the time â Things that think want to linkâ Nicholas Negraponte, MIT Media Labs Mall Library School Home
- 19. Connecting learners inside schools and classrooms Wireless access Online references Online collaboration Student-owned devices
- 20. Connecting learners inside schools and classrooms Web-based applications Mobile applications Augmented reality
- 21. Connecting yourself⊠Targetedlearning experiences Personal Learning Network (PLN) Know your reputation
- 22. "The only wayof discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke
- 23. Illuminating Learners DistrictFocus 2010 â 2011 Getting students and all staff âplugged intoâ learning