Cohort+1+Introductions+and+2020+List


 * Session 1 (Steve Hargadon = SH)
 * Some signals of major shifts:
 * End of Encyclopedia Britannica print edition
 * "United Breaks Guitars" video
 * Change of power: restaurant/book reviews from customers, not "experts"
 * Members
 * Frank Olah: Singapore American School
 * Skeptical of the trends in education; also looking for avenue to teach special ed students, not just AP
 * Will using technology help kids who learn differently & with more difficulty? Also, individualization based on learning styles/needs.
 * Education is a group activity
 * SH: TV--great waste of time sometimes (Gilligan's Island) and also amazing sometimes (seeing Man on Moon)
 * (later on) -- worried some about the isolation/individualizing of information -- examples: individualized ads, political news -- problematic when others determine what we see
 * Christina Lu: Hong Kong International School
 * Just went 1:1 @ HKIS; Impressed with possibilities (gave example from classroom); Seeing a paradigm shift
 * Predicts education in 2020 will be more individualized (problem: what if they miss important things? Good--focusing on interests)
 * Corina Jones: Saigon South International School
 * Just went 1:1 @ SSIS; The oldest ones can bring their own device.
 * Imagines that more classes will be individualized & less time in the classroom
 * (related book: //Disrupted Classroom//)
 * Julie Monroe: Mont Kiara Int'l School (Kuala Lumpur)
 * Don't see education changing much in 2020 b/c it hasn't changed dramatically since she grew up
 * one change: more emphasis on thinking outside the box since then
 * Andy Lewis: Shanghai American School
 * Lots of wonderful materials in existence; Worries some about technology: increases differences between haves & have nots
 * Where is the ability for those who don't have access to great technology to succeed in 2020?
 * **Equity** and **accessibility** is important
 * Paul Whitsell: Shanghai Community International School
 * 2000: What would we have thought about 2010?
 * Fear: Many opportunities b/c of Web 2.0 will be lost b/c of teaching curriculum for a standardized test/high-stakes testing
 * SH: Interesting duality between tracking capability and independence piece
 * Later on--not an access issue but an
 * Paulo Valenza: Shanghai Community International School
 * Just walked in the door!
 * John Byron: Dulwich College, Shanghai
 * Not skeptical of future; don't think that certain skills that were valued in past are not necessary now & in the future
 * Hopeful that education will move away from testing
 * People like us will drive education forward but gov't policies will hold us back
 * _: Dulwich College, Shanghai
 * Technology keeps getting earlier each year
 * They learn from each other very quickly; they don't need help for many things that we used to teach
 * Worry: Using too early (email, internet, etc)
 * 2020: Computer will be used more widely
 * SH: "Hole in the Wall" experiment in India -- people teaching themselves computer skills
 * Nola Sessions: American Embassy School, Delhi
 * Rose-colored glasses
 * Kids will take over; teachers will have to take over
 * Sadness: Many schools have administrators that don't get it; those who do it will (and does) work well
 * Weda (Way da) Bory: International School Beijing
 * Almost 1:1 school
 * Technology can improve human relations.
 * Example: Flip cam records body language, speaking to improve how students communicate during book talks
 * Example: Voicethread
 * Most successful when thinking of what students should achieve and then figuring out what technology to use; not vice-versa
 * Glad Andy mentioned lack of equity w/ education + technology
 * Referred to valedictorian's speech getting famous b/c she said that she didn't learn anything/much b/c it was just to tests.
 * Kids serving underprivileged in US can look to our schools as models
 * Unschooling movement in US -- many of what they are doing is what we want
 * Predictions: (1) Regular public schools--more movement toward unschoolers; (2) Int'l schools--more movement to individualized instruction (may be different in HS)
 * Ed2020: Communication will continue to improve but much more time will be spent with school work/school-related activities; Curious to see how we can harness communication & other potential of technology
 * Louise Johns: @ a non-profit bilingual school in Shanghai
 * Interesting dealing with technology differences from NZ & China
 * "batten down the hatches" for the next technology revolution
 * We might go backwards before we go forward with technology
 * (later on): School is a community---we go there in part for that
 * Tom MacLean: International School Manila
 * Interested in the idea of control
 * We need to look @ humanity in technology. Not sure if we can/should change certain things. Technology offers many opportunities but it doesn't solve certain things (we'll still need dirty jobs in future, etc)
 * Disillusioned with IB's mission statement compared to their standardized testing; not big on sorting people into different categories
 * 2020: Optimistic in many ways but as a global thing/big picture, will it change humanity?
 * "The potential is there, but do we always use it?"
 * (later on) -- Why timed restrictions on tests & no access to technology?
 * Samuel Chan: teaches local, gifted kids in Shanghai
 * Content access v. content consumption
 * Education helps us visualize knowledge.
 * Historically, people have wasted many pages b/c we couldn't visualize knowledge...now we can and "that's fantastic"
 * Data can be filtered
 * Most of contributions will be made by people's viewpoints
 * Tad Porterfield: International Christian School, Hong Kong
 * Looking for best way to reach students
 * Last 10 years--developing the technology; Now: issue is evaluating
 * Another thing that will change: Access to info/content: Some are blocked (PBS example), some change
 * *Filtering & Access
 * Steven Layman: Yokohama International School
 * Problem for our students: Living in a digital world but going to analog schools
 * Schools don't understand that they need to reinvent themselves
 * Schools have a place in the future, it's just a different place
 * People shouldn't be scared of education in the future
 * Claude : _ __International School, Qingdao__
 * __Education in 2020 depends on if we can change universities__
 * __ Major Themes from Introductions __
 * Changes in university admissions/testing
 * Equity/access/control/distribution of knowledge
 * Individualization
 * Trade-offs/keeping the good
 * Good teaching/education: Protecting/enhancing
 * (related to above): What does good learning look like? (Tools? Use of tools?)
 * What does the 21st century student look like? Teacher?
 * __How do you explain how 20 or so years of education with computers haven't__ really__ transformed education?
 * Should we be trying to do old things in new ways or new things in new ways?
 * Connectivism: Networked learning
 * Extras added to board after session ended
 * Segmenting v. diversity
 * Filtering v. authoritative sources
 * Engagement v. content
 * Teaching as profession
 * Finland
 * Institutional pathologies (banking/ed secty) systems
 * New character traits rewarded
 * Handheld devices -- they will become part of schools
 * Safety
 * Preparing for: civil dialog, important governance discussions, sciences & tech (balancing social technologies and rigorous, deep learning)
 * Retaining traditional methods of value (photography taking black/white photos, developing their own film, etc)
 * Local v. centralized control
 * Historic juxtapositions (credentialing? See note below under "random" section)
 * Portfolios
 * Parent expectations
 * Irrelevance
 * Politics -- Who/how decisions are made about education
 * Physical space of schools/classrooms (some experimental exceptions: "High Tech High," etc)
 * Time (Will they spend more/less time b/c of technology? When will students be learning? Formal v. informal learning time
 * Cognitive Revolution (many brain studies affecting our beliefs about learning/education)
 * Schooling v. education
 * Learning facts v. higher level thinking (How much time for each? What will change?)
 * Liberal arts argument (expose students to a variety of things)
 * Fear of future
 * Learning how to learn
 * Random
 * Steve Hargadon: [|www.globaleducationconference.com]
 * SH: Film called "Race to Nowhere" -- Statistic: 50% of students who have over a 4.0 when entering UC Berkely have to take remedial courses upon entering.
 * SH interview for "Future of Education" series: John Stuart Gaddo quit b/c he said was harming students...he wrote a book called //Dumbing Us Down// which has been influential in home school movement.
 * How do you write a common assessment for technology when it is changing so much?
 * Engagement often trumps content (no matter how good a decision is, its effectiveness is often largely based on how engaged people were in making that decision)
 * Clay Sherkey (sp?) talks about historical juxtapositions such as "signing with a record label" was once the sign of becoming a musician. What are the historic juxtapositions in education? (Could it be credentialing?)
 * Dan Willingham book: //Why Students Hate School// (there is a lot of value learning facts, b/c then it makes higher learning possible..."cognitive revolution")