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)

Welcome, Members of Project Zero Future of Learning Learning Group 4 --

Gioko, Liz, and I are very much looking forward to meeting you tomorrow -- and to beginning our learning expedition that will no doubt take us to some intense learning places that may awe us and intimidate us, but that we will explore together, with the guidance of some amazing experts who are at the cutting edge of it all.

That's why I've posted this lion.  His calm majesty and wildness co-exist for sure.  But there's much more to this, for sure, given the unyielding reality of the fence in front of him.

Wishing you a wonderful learning experience at FOL -- and please be sure to let us know how we can make that happen for you.

Joan