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Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools: Reinventing the Secondary School Experience Bob Pearlman Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation [email protected] http://www.bobpearlman.org New Schools, New Learning Birmingham, England October 13, 2004 1 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros The BSF Opportunity…. Total UK Investment = £ 46 billion over 10 years 2 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros The BSF Challenge…. School Opening for 2007-8 Construction 2006-7 Physical design 2005-6 Educational Design by …… Is BSF a Construction Program or an Educational Program? Are we being asked to spend money before we know what to do? 3 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros The BSF Danger…. Some say if you get the design right, then the education will follow??? Will the new BSF Schools just be Old Wine in New Bottles? 4 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Your High School, 1964-- ??? Where were you in 1964? 5 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Penncrest High School, Media, PA 9th grade house Flexibility to adapt to departmental or team structure Flexible classrooms that can be adapted to different instructional uses Community Capacity Center 1600 6 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 Constructivist Block _Macros Learning Schedule Professional Community Professional Development Center The 1083 Learning Center Project Open Rooms in every wing public ceremonial space 7 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros UK Educational White Papers lack vision of: •21st Century Learning •ICT as Tool and Infrastructure for 21st Century Learning 8 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros The Primary National Strategy moves this thinking on by articulating 7 aspects of learning: • enquiry • problem solving • creativity • information processing • reasoning • evaluation • personal, emotional and social skills But Why and How? 9 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Dongguan 10 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Dongguan •7 million people. Grew from less than 1 million in 1979 •15,000 International Companies •25,000 companies total -- 10,000 of them are computer related manufacturers, representing 40% of all international computer part market •Ranked 7th in overall municipal competitiveness in China •Ranked 3rd in goods exported, behind Shanghai and Shenzhen 11 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Bangalore 12 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Bangalore •Silicon Valley of India •7.2 million people, 5th largest city in India (+ 1 billion people) •86% literacy •1154 IT SW companies in 2003, up from 29 in 1993 Top Ten SW Exporters, 2002-03: •116 new SW technology part units established in 2002-3 Infosys Technologies Ltd. Wipro Ltd. IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Digital Global Soft. Ltd. I-Flex Solutions Ltd. Texas Instruments Cisco Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. Mphasis BFL Ltd. Philips Software Centre 13 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny. By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004 Globalization 1.0 From the late 1800's to World War I, was driven by falling transportation costs, thanks to the steamship and the railroad. shrank the world from a size large to a size medium. Globalization 2.0 From the 1980's to 2000, was based on falling telecom costs and the PC, and shrank the world from a size medium to a size small. 14 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny. By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004 Globalization 3.0 Produced by three forces: •Massive installation of undersea fiber-optic cable and bandwidth (thanks to the dot-com bubble) that have made it possible to globally transmit and store huge amounts of data for almost nothing. •Second, the diffusion of PC's around the world. •Third, the convergence of a variety of software applications — from e-mail, to Google, to Microsoft Office, to specially designed outsourcing programs — that, when combined with all those PC's and bandwidth, made it possible to create global "work-flow platforms." 15 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st Century? “Will this generation of learners have the skills and preparation to innovate?” -- Barry Schuler, Former CEO, AOL At NTHS Founder’s Day Event 16 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991) Competencies – effective workers can productively use: •Resources -- identifying, organizing, planning, and allocating time, money, materials, and workers; •Interpersonal Skills -- negotiating, exercising leadership, working with diversity, teaching others new skills, serving clients and customers, and participating as a team member; •Information Skills -- using computers to process information and acquiring and evaluating, organizing and maintaining, and interpreting and communicating information; •Systems Skills -- understanding systems, monitoring and correcting system performance, and improving and designing systems; and •Technology utilization skills -- selecting technology, applying technology to a task, and maintaining and troubleshooting technology. Source: What Work Requires of School, 1991, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U.S. Department of Labor 17 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991) The Foundation – competence requires: •Basic Skills -- reading, writing, speaking, listening, and knowing arithmetic and mathematical concepts; •Thinking Skills -- reasoning, making decisions, thinking creatively, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, and knowing how to learn; and •Personal Qualities -- responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, selfmanagement, integrity, and honesty. 18 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 19 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Working in the Real World (i.e. California?) •Projects, projects, projects •Teamwork and collaboration •Self-direction •Interpersonal skills and Networking •Project Management, Leadership •No one asks about your formal education 20 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Released June 21, 2004 at NECC, New Orleans http://www.21stcenturyskills.org 21 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros 22 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros So what do schools look like where students get 21st Century Knowledge and Skills? 23 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros 24 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Teachers talk and students listen. 25 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools The teacher has a monopoly information on 19 1083 _Macros 26 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Students learn by not doing 27 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools How do we get them here? 19 1083 _Macros 28 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Strategies that Make a Difference Engagement Hands-on Adult connections Internships Real World immersion 29 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros New Technology High School Napa, California http://www.newtechhigh.org/ Integrating technology into every class Interdisciplinary and project-based Internship class consisting of classroom curriculum and unpaid work in technology, business or education Digital Portfolio http://www.newtechfoundation.org/nthlearning.html 30 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros New Technology HS LEARNING OUTCOMES • TECHNOLOGY LITERACY • WRITTEN COMMUNICATION • COLLABORATION • CAREER PREPARATION • CRITICAL THINKING • CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS • ORAL COMMUNICATION • CURRICULAR LITERACY (CONTENT STANDARDS) 31 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros REPLICATION PROGRESS Anchorage (AK) Portland (OR) Anderson Rohnert Park Novato Napa Sacramento Davis Vallejo Oakland (conversion) New Orleans 32 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros At the core is a student centered, project and problem based teaching strategy that is tied to both content standards and school wide learning outcomes. 33 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros PROJECT BASED LEARNING PBL vs. Doing Projects The Project is the Curriculum Creating a “Need to Know” Teacher Acts as a Coach Focus on Skills (ESLRs) 34 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Project Management Teamwork 35 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Oral Communication/Presentation Exhibition 36 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros 37 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Schools as Workplaces for 21st Century Students 38 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros 39 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros 40 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros 41 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros 42 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Make BSF an Educational Program, not a Construction Program! •Educators need to write the Educational Specifications for the New Builds! •Start pilots of the New Learning Environments (Rich Tasks, PBL) Now! 43 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL Study Tours and Visits http://www.newtechfoundation.org 44 Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Bob Pearlman [email protected] http://www.bobpearlman.org 45