NSBA Annual Conference, Boston Mass.

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So what is this all about. Why are we retooling our classroom, redefining teaching, and re-imagining classrooms. Its a complicated issue and continues to be a hard sell in many communities. But the fact of the matter is that there are three reasons why education must change and why our notions of what it means to be educated must change

Its a three-bullet list. It can be recited in an elevator. It is a perfect storm of three converging conditions that make business as usual in education irrelevant and even dangerous. We are:

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

Your online handouts can be found here, and you will be able to read the backchannel chat here.

I want to congratulate the school districts that are being recognized today for their accomplishments in modernizing their schools. You may have noticed that I did not mention technology in that sentence. Tech is simply the pencil and paper of our time. These are districts who are bringing their schools into the present.

It is a pleasure to be here with you today, though I certainly wish that I felt a little better.

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