Harnessing the Perfect Storm – Trail, BC 8/8/13

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Trail, BC

I have been an educator for 37 years, and the one thing that I wouldn’t have imagined when I started teaching history was how much the industry would change – how much history we would be making. It’s a complicated issue, but if we factor it all down, there are three things that have happened, converging conditions that are forcing us, for the first time in decades, to rethink education and even what it means to be educated.

We are:

  • Preparing a new generation of learner
  • Within a new information environment
  • For a future we can not clearly describe.

My presentations will make this case, but also dig more deeply into two of them, the new information landscape and this new generation of learner. Specifically, we’ll look at what three brand new qualities of today’s information environment do to what it means to be literate. We’ll also look at some of the qualities of our children’s outside-the-classroom learning experiences, and what they might look like in our classrooms.

Online Handouts

Some education hashtags:

  • #EdChat – This hashtag is for tweets relating to an exciting collaborative conversation forum for educators via Twitter. Edchat discussions happen Tuesdays on Twitter.
  • #ECETech(Chat) – Tweets for early childhood educators who are interested in learning more about technology integration.
  • #EdTech – This hashtag is used by professionals across the field of education to share new tech tools.
  • #iPadEd & #EdApps – These hashtags are for educators who are interested in learning about how to use iPads in the classroom, as well as useful apps.
  • #1:1chat – discussions about 1:1 or one to the world initiatives.
  • #mlearning – News and discussion about mobile learning.
  • #ipaded – Conversations about iPads in education.
  • #1:1 – about one to one and/or one to the world initiatives.

I thank you for giving me an opportunity to enjoy a short personal vacation, driving the Selkirk Loop and seeing so much of your magnificent Province. During the drive I experimented with a fisheye lens for my iPhone. Here’s an example. I was quite pleased with the outcome, own no small credit to the wondrous landscape.

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