Presentations

The Box-Products

Thinking outside the Box-The Process

The road to answering the research question

Group 4 tentative questions or personal throughlines:

  How do tweeting and blogging affect learning?

·         What is my next step and where am I headed? How does FOL inform my thinking?

·         How do we create the future?

·         Are digital reading and “deep” reading mutually exclusive?

·         How do we educate all students for the unknown future in a climate of high stakes testing?

·         Is technology a net gain?

·         How can I share my learning about FOL in Japan?

·         How can we adjust the delivery of the curriculum?

·         How can technology compensate for a lack of resources in other areas?

·         How can I lead our school to shift from a hierarchical culture to a networking culture?

·         How do you nurture our next generation for global citizenship?

·         Are we really preparing a future learning?

·         How to make the most of technology:

o   Wasting the least effort and time

o   Using it meaningfully (i.e. adding value)

o   Not leaving behind those other contents/skills/habits/techniques/features/hobbies which are still valuable

Hi, Everyone --

I am "re-blogginng" this wonderful post from the Learning Group 8 area of our FOL web site that includes links to many, many great resources from Project Zero that can help with this work, whether we're dealing with adults of children:

http://futureoflearningpz.org/2013/07/31/resources-for-learning-group-8/  Thank you, Jessica and LG #8!

See you tomorrow!

JSS

Hi, Everyone --

I am hoping that via this link, you can see today's -- our Day #1 PowerPoint and our Day #1 Collage Creating Experience and Reflection directions.

Let me know if this doesn't work.  I've also posted these attachments in Learning Group #4 on the "all public" Future of Learning Web Site: <http://futureoflearningpz.org/2013/07/30/materials-from-a-thought-provoking-day-in-lg-4/>

Have a good evening, everyone!

JSS

Day 1

Thanks everyone for a stimulating discussion this afternoon. I took a few notes and wanted to share a few themes that I noticed:

 

1. Technology isn’t everything

·         It’s a means rather than an end  - for example, to tackle important global challenges.

·         We don’t know where it’s leading us – it helps to make the future uncertain and unknown.

·         The limits of technology are giving us a renewed appreciation for very human qualities,  such as our ability for complex communication or empathy and spirituality (see #2).

 

2. Spirituality matters

·         Has the ubiquity of new technology come at the expense of our humanity?

·         How can digital technology help us to recover what is sacred and natural in our world?

·         How can we develop the sacred in students - particularly in a materialistic age where people don’t have fixed identities?

 

3. We need different perspectives

·         The collage process – especially the speech and thought bubbles – helped us to consider different perspectives we might not otherwise have done

·         We need to take on board the perspectives of young people as we consider the future (and they in turn need the perspectives of people who can remember a less digital society)