Imagining the Future of Learning – June 12, 2013

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Imagining the Future of LearningRegardless of where we are or where we work, in the realm of formal education, there is a story that we need to understand – one that helps us to define our purpose and our roles in accomplishing our goals. It’s be an easy story to tell, one that has become culturally integrated into our common understanding. However, in the past 30 years or so the conditions that define that story have changed. It’s a complex issue that stems from an increasingly complex world. Unfortunately, when story become too complicated, we tend to rush back to old and trusted stories, “Just teach my kids the basics.” “What ever happened to the three Rs?”

This my keynote presentation is designed to take this new and admittedly complicated story, and reduce it down to a three-bullet list – an elevator pitch for why the education that served me in the 1950s and ’60s, is not suitable for today’s children. Write them down. They are not only irrefutable, but they also may point to some avenue for retooling our classrooms.

My pavillion topic is much more concrete, in a way that keynote speeches are not supposed to be. It’s about a practice that I think is possibly/problably the coolest thing happening on the Net, and something that education has, until just recently, virtually ignored. It’s infograhpics and data visualization. I’ll be showing you some pretty striking examples and also cluing you into some ways that you can create or help your students to create stories from numbers.

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Yum!It’s a pleasure to be with you today in Kentucky. I’ve not traveled for a few weeks, so I’m glad to be flexing my business muscles, and sharing my version/vision of teaching and learning in the age of opportunity.

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