CoLearners

Just a Few Edmonton Public Schools Services

This is my third day of teaching in the Edmonton area this week, and the sixth time in the last three weeks (I think.) It is a pleasure to be here, to be working in a province that is so purposefully aiming to invent the future through its education and a district (Edmonton Public Schools) that is so vigorously blazing the trails.

The fact of the mater is that many of our students are already well on their way, though in a less directed and purposeful way. But I believe that their work at playing today’s information landscape can be harnessed by us and our curriculum to help us to shape a new learning experience, a new notion of what it is to be educated, and probably a new definition of the 21st century teacher.

Today’s work will come in four parts. I’ll present a context, a breakdown of three converging conditions that are forming a perfect storm of change. Then we will explore today’s prevailing information environment and what it means in terms of the basic literacy skills of a networked, digital, and abundant information landscape. After that and probably after lunch, we will look at the new sense of literacy in terms of educator skills, learning literacy, self-directed ongoing professional development. Finally, we will look at our students outside the classroom information experiences and the qualities of that experience that might be harnessed for more relevant inside the formal learning environment.

Resources: Rebooting the Basics Wiki Handouts Bibliography Planning Concept Map Post Presentation Narrative Presentation Visual A Gardener’s Approach to Professional Development Wiki Handouts Planning Map A Gardenter’s Approach to Learning — a blog entry Cracking the “Native” Information Experience Wiki Handouts Bibliography Presentation Visuals Key Points from the Observer’s Perspective Knitter Backchannel Transcript

What I Just Learned: Organic University Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet — Oct 21, 2009 Hubble Findes First Organic Molecules on Extrasolar Planet — Oct 19, 2008 PlanetQuest Exoplanet Count PlanetQuest Timeline

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