Living on the Future Edge - The Age of Disruptive Innovation

Lee Crocket
Keynote 3

Moore's Law - Twice as much power for half the money every 24 months - held true since 1979, now down to every 12 months

Augmented Reality

• How does it impact our teaching? - 
• culture teaching will be more important the language teaching
• inspirational teaching - a learning facilitator
• 'In the future, people who need managing will not be employable' - Lee Crockett
• The Arts are not ornamental they are fundamental - creative and service skills are needed

Disruptive Innovation

• Changes in technology that make something or someone obsolete
• There's a better way to do things
• eg phones, computers, cameras, tapes and cds, - all ways of delivering information
• Need to get your head around it and move with the times or become obsolete
• 'Nobody needs obsolete excellence' - Ian Jukes

Can't see what is happening right in front of us! Need to step back and think about what is happening for our kids and their futures.

3 'un' that lead to downfall

• unaware
• unwilling
• unable

1 action you are going to take starting right now.

The Same Thing in a Different Way - Day 2

Lee Crockett and Andrew Churches

Focus on Solution Fluency for 1 ~ 4 terms before introducing other fluencies.

• Ask
• Acquire
• Analyze
• Apply
• Assess

Google

• The language you use to search google with affects the results that come up.
• How can u   v How does an individual
• Can filter by reading level, under Search tools
• Advanced search 
• Dihydrogen Monoxide - DHMO Homepage - useful for looking for misinformation
• Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
• Martin Luther King
• 3 and No Repeats
• World Map dilemma on West Wing

Lee Crocket

Email :   lee@fluency21.com

Twitter : @leecrocket

The Same Thing in a Different Way

Lee Crockett and Andrew Churches

Service class jobs are replaced by technology

Creative class jobs are facilitated by technology

• freemium games - make most money
• apps design 
• Need to develop visual communication for app designs and the future

What are the critical skills students need to be successful in life beyond school?
Our list

• teamwork / collaboration
• creativity
• communication
• resilience
• risk taking
• problem solving
• critical thinking 
• managing self
• social analysis - ethical thinking
• filtering information
• dreaming
• interacting and contributing

Lee's list

1. Problem soloving
2. Creativity
3. Analytical thinking 
4. Collaborate
5. Communicate
6. Ethics, Action, Accountability

21st Century fluencies have nothing to do with hardware

but more to do with headware and heartware

Solution Fluency

define

• importance of assessment to be shared 

discover

• relevance and context
• understand and unpack the problem
• understanding strengths and weaknesses

dream

design

• What happened before that?
• learning progressions 

deliver

debrief

• review each of the steps and the outcome and consider how could you have made the product and the process better?

What do we want out of 21C Fluencies

• Relevance
• present work in a format that students will relate to eg videos, language...
• Start with the curriculum and identify a standard you would like to address.
• Who would encounter this in the world beyond school?
• What would be relevant, in context, or applicable to your students?
• Creating
• Real World

New Vocabulary

• Edutainment
• Creatical thinking - creative and critical thinking
• Describe - give a detailed account - who, what, when, where
• Explain - give a detailed account include causes, reason mechanisms - how and why
• Analysis
• Evaluation
• Elevator pitch - 60 secs to promote your idea.

Kiva.org
Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/
oDesk - Changing how the world works

• accountability and transparency (esp when work is outsourced)

Misbehaving Appropriately - A Blueprint for Teaching in the 21st C Our Way, Island Bay: A Curriculum for the 21st Century

Keynote - Perry Rush

The Learning Purpose in the 21C - we need a shared sense of purpose as individuals

• to enable the individual to be fulfilled to their satisfaction - cater to individuals
• diversity in our students
• if we are compelling students to come to school it needs to be an experience worthy of the time they spend at school
• to build capability to be successful in the 21C knowledge economy
• Catching the Knowledge Wave - Jane Gilbert
• The new meaning of knowledge
• is a process not a thing
• does things
• happens in teams not individuals
• develops in the now when it is needed
• develops to be replaced not stored
• just in time, not just in case
• Minds are
• resources - that can be connected to other resources in order to generate new knowledge
• to enable deep learning
• The difference in quality of inquiry is the teacher 
• Student initiative with deep 
• to grow students that are able to question the status quo and act on their beliefs
• Be quiet and listen to the kids

NZ Curriculum

• Student learning at the centre, not coverage
• Designed to reduce compliance and simplify requirements - essence statements
• Emphasis on local meaning ... what is important in your community
• Participatory view of learning... gaining knowledge is not enough... you need to be able to do things with what you know
• More generic,,, essence statements, reduced AO's...increased professional judgment
• Demands vision... is a significant shift from what we have known

• The Hidden Lives of Learners - Graham Nuthall
• most children's significant learning experiences were self selected or self generate even in traditional classroons
• need to develop clarity about how we learn - philosophy, culture, practice

21C Pedagogies the Grow Deeper Learning

• Conceptual curriculum
• Teaching for Understanding as opposed to knowledge acquisition
• Project Zero, Harvard University - http://www.pz.harvard.edu/
• Teaching by design
• Inquiry based learning
• its not about the inquiry model its about the teaching of the inquiry model

Personalised Learning 

• Discovery time
• Passion Projects
• Personal inquiry prompted by shared inquiry
• Children teaching children
• Writer's notebook

Lee Crocket - 21 Century Fluencies

Another school holiday course but one I'm really excited to be attending.  Learning Network NZ has organised a two day programme with Lee Crocket from the 21C Fluencies Institute.

Keynote - Lee Crocket
Different ways of doing things











TTWWADI - that's the way we've always done it.
Why do we accept things without questioning?

• holidays
• bell times
• classrooms
• hands up
• writing in books
• ...

Why do we need to examine our TTWWADIs?  For the kids!!!

Myths in education

• IQ is fixed - creatical thinking - creative and critical thinking
• Solution Fluency
• relevant, engaging learning opportunities
• Homework improves performance
• very little connection - John Hattie
• no correlation between homework and achievement
• Mendina - Brain Rules
• quality over quantity
• In partnership with the kids
• Text is better for communicating than images
• eyes process images at 60 000 x that of text
• 80% of info comes to us through our eyes
• we need to find ways to present with visuals 
• Learning is more effective when students sit quietly and listen
• digital learning mashup 
• Receiving Information - Passive Learning
• audio
• visual
• audio visual
• Participation - Active learning
• verbal 
• multisensory 
• Impact on learning higher when cooperative learning than competitive learning
• Small class sizes are essential for effective learning
• no effect, size doesn't matter
• impacts on management
• progressive withdrawal - from teacher control to student control of their learning
• we need to teach them how to learn - not how to be taught
• University education is essential for a successful future
• kids need to prepare for 10 ~ 17 careers in their life
• students are abandoning university
• information has a short shelf life
• information quickly becomes obsolete
• white collar jobs are just factory jobs in nicer clothes

Mathletics

What is Mathletics?

• child on computer practicing maths - live mathletics, curriculum activities
• teacher resources 
• printable resources - aligned to NZ Curriculum
• management functions - groups, results, reports

Engaging for students

Making life easier for teachers

Main page - Need Help? for all information about what is on Mathletics and how to use it.

• rewards systems - 
• 1000 pts in a week = bronze certificate
• 5 bronze cert to get a silver
• 4 silver certificates to get a gold

can check at different levels - top centre

2 hours a week is enough to get a bronze

Activities

• personalised learning - something easier/harder option for students
• activities randomly generated
• within the band of the course
• 2 wrong next one is easier
• 2 right next one harder
• instant feedback

? button - will take the question you got wrong and ‘teach’ how to get it right.

• used as an individual or group teaching tool

Live Mathletics

• against classmates very popular

Rainforest Maths

• explore

Times Tables Toons 

• for rote learning

Concept Search

• 750 teams included
• great content for Smartboard

Problem Solving

• check out for Friday activities

• Grouping students for differentiated learning

Set up groups

• group name, country, new group course - Level 1 ~ 8
• can customise courses completely
• click, drag and drop student into new group
• can only allocate a student to one course
• can have multiple teachers for a student

• use existing courses as a template
• show/hide topics to focus on what is happening in the class

• at a glance 
• Action bar
• assign activities 
• 85% is mastery
• Yellow activities must be done before student can go on live athletics
• Conversation with students about where they are and where they want to be - intrinsic motivation

Set minimal standards for live maths

• Live Maths Report - then bottom right Set level

Report Generator

• View button - print includes graph, strengths, weaknesses
• Part of triangulation

IKAN tests 

• Filter by - General

• can print page, chapter or book

iPads app

• has sound
• sound to be introduced online by end of month