See the Animoto video from NECC
Our Students • Our Worlds
Flat World/Flat Classrooms
Online handouts for a keynote address
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Web Resources
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Session Description:
For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted of a set of accepted literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students who were arranged in straight rows. Today, for the first time in decades (generations of teachers), we are facing the challenge of changing our notions about teaching and learning to adapt to a rapidly changing world. We are struggling to rethink what it is to be educated, to reinvent the classroom, and redefine what it is to be a teacher and a student.
There is much that has changed, and for much of it, we have responded by attempting to hold it back — to block it. This presentation, by 30+ year educator, author, and technologist, David Warlick, will explore some of these changes and challenges and arrange them as a set of converging conditions that might help us to redefine and retool the 21st century classroom.
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Flat Classroom Energy Sources
- To work in responsive information environments,
- To communicate,
- To share personal experience & Identity,
- To Ask questions,
- To Accomplish,
- To form community,
- To invest themselves,
- To safely make mistakes,
- To have audience and attention.1
Books about Flat World
- The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman
- Flight of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida
- As the Future Catches You, by Juan Enriquez
- The Next Fifty Years, by John Brockman (editor)
Books about Our Student's Information Experience
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flat classroom warlick - Google Blog Search
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- Got Game, by John Beck & Mitchell Wade
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- How Computer Games Help Children Learn by David Williamson Shaffer
New Information Landscape
- Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
- The Search by John Batelle
- The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
- Wikinomics by Don Tapscott
- Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger
Are Digital Students also Digital Citizens?
On February 20, 2008, in preparation for a Digital Citizenship Conference sponsored by the Missouri Bar Association, I posed the following question to the Twitterverse.
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dwarlick: Just because they're digital natives, does that automatically make them digital citizens? How do digital immigrants become citizens? |
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Over the next several hours Twitter users who follow me, responded with their insights, limited to only 140 characters. | |
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mweller: - and don't 'immigrants' often make model citizens (better than the 'natives', who take it for granted) |
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karynromeis: see @dajbelshaw 's post: http://tinyurl.com/3byc3d |
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lthumann: Don't they have to participate in order to be digital citizens? |
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joebjr: I like to think digital citizenship implies a bit of responsibility and participation. Not enough to just be born into it. |
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dabernethy: - immigrants become citizens through learning, application, and integrating dig tech in their lives. Open minded to what's new |
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debot: Early in our country's history only landowners were voting citizens. Blocking digital natives seems disenfranchising. |
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garystager: how many of our old-fashioned citizens behave as citizens? Why must you keep sorting people into new boxes? |
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ClareLane: -Immigrant has ALWAYS been incorrect -it should have been emigrant -but why not call all of us what we are -teachers and learners? |
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nandikerri: citenzenry takes an acceptance of and conscious participation in the spoken/unspoken 'social contract' of society in which u live |
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nandikerri: as one of my students said to me-'just b/c we r born into it doesn't mean we know how to use it better-" |
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mctoonish: I think that goes back to how do we define digital citizenship. |
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paulallison: Great question! We've been struggling with this at http://elggplans.wikispaces... How to move toward social action? |
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ArtGelwicks: Who has the right to determine what digital citizenship is? This is not an entity with a ruling body and standards. |
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plugusin: : Great questions. What do we do to teach citizenship? What are the consequences when we don't? |
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hbwenger: no...it doesn't make them digital citizens...just as in our own lives, 'digital citizenship' needs to be taught and modeled |
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paulallison: I wonder about all of my own digital connections and whether these have led me away from civic engagement: reforming my schools. |
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johnkrutsch: we become digital natives by _BEING_ online (always connected, etc...) rather than _GOING_ online. |
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Dowbiggin: We get naturalized by being huge geeks. (I'm a digital in-between) |
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cnansen: About digital immigrants becoming citizens? You've done it.. So have others. authentic assessment? Can you lose your citizenship? |
1 -Audience Chat, "Our Students • Our Worlds." Miami Country Day School. Multipurpose Room, Miami. 14 Aug 2007. ⇑



























