Much can be said about 21st century skills, learning, and learning spaces. There are many good, complex and interesting reasons why the “What,” “How” and “Where” of education are being re-imagined and re-thought. Yet convincing those who want to remain in the comfort zone of teaching children how to be taught in contained and controlled spaces remains a hard sale.
This presentation seeks to simplify the story, making it a three bullet list that can be cited during a typical elevator ride. there are three reasons why, a conversion of three irrefutable conditions, a perfect storm that is forcing us, for the first time in decades, to rethink it all. We are, today,
Here are a couple of links to documents and repositories related to this presentation.
- Online Handouts – narrative, visuals & bibliography
- Backchannel – Background conversation on Knitterchat (or Twitter)
- PDF of the Presentation Visuals
Perhaps one of the best things I can say about this day is no need to go to the airport and no need to move into a hotel room. It is a thrill to work in my own state and only a few miles up the road.
