I have been trying to keep up with the K-12 Online Conference, we are at the end of week one. The theme is Playing with Boundaries with a keynote given by David Warlick to get things started. If you would like to listen to David’s keynote – Inventing the New Boundaries.
Some of the impressions that I took from the keynote were:
The world is changing. The borders are invisible. It doesn’t matter where you are.
We learn by teaching each other, sharing our knowledge and experiences with others, as the new 21st Century learners
Teachers and students are looking for new borders, pavement, places where we can get our traction. For the first time in history we are preparing our students for a future that we can’t clearly predict.
There are other skills that are necessary to learn how to be literate in this new landscape. Find, evaluate, and organize information. Our notion of what is literate will have to change.
Information Landscape:
Increasing networked, digital, overwhelming, participatory, flows, uploads, connects and reconnects. There are opportunities within this landscape if we can harness it, create experiences where the work responsibly, communicating, sharing personal experiences within the world that they are learning about.
The best thing we can teach our students is to teach themselves
