The Quotable Warlick
Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10:04AM Tags: flat classroom warlick (Tags for blog entries will become part of his handouts.)
Live-blogging David's presentation someplace here in the woods of Pennsylvania. (Returning the favor?)
I was going to put this on the bottom, but I was afraid people wouldn't get to it - David is a wonderful presenter - outstanding information and ideas delivered with warmth, humor and compelling visuals. Well-received by this audience of school administrators. Each time I see David present - he's better! And he wasn't bad the first time I heard him a few years ago. Warlick delivers.
Dave's comments below:
Starting with keynote with something “just learned.”
- People are going to the web to learn something “new.” – Pew
- 8.6% of all people going to the web are going to the Wikipedia.
Invites attendees to update his wiki-based handouts.
“We are learning by teaching each other, sharing.”
Live demo of how to get handouts from Second Life.
Build libraries in virtual world "unrestrained by walls."
Our generation was prepared for working... in straight rows, performing repetitive tasks, under close supervision.
Workplace of the future: Now "home office" providing information services is today's work.
People giving up landlines for cellphones. Men shopping at the grocery store with cellphones to ears.
5 exabytes of information produced last year. Only 0.01% of that information was printed. Yet paper is what we use in schools.
We will want information technologies we can carry with us (wear).
We know almost nothing about the future we are preparing our students for.
Economy is global. Students need to be able to participate.
Plugs for Florida and Pink's books. Importance of creativity.
Kids don't shop for technology, but new and better stories.
More emphasis on STEM, but also on music, art, creativity.
21st century students learning in 19th century classrooms.
Today's kids carry their friends with them. (Invisible tentacles - communication technologies) We chop these tentacles off in school.
The depth of digital divide is between a connected, powerful community and those that aren't connected. Our country is behind assuring all homes have broadband Internet access.
Students using online games as places for learning, communication. (One of Dave's presentations was "piped" into World of Warcraft by student attendee.)
Busted for taking a picture with laptop camera during presentation.
We need to spend time teaching kids to be good producers, not just consumers, of information.
Demo of using RSS feed of GoogleNews on topic. "We are training the information to find us. My aggregator is my personal learning network."
Three conditions educators need to pay attention to:
- Networked Students
- New Information Landscape
- Unpredictable Future
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Reader Comments (1)
David busted me doing the same thing at TCEA in Austin, TX, a few years back. I spun the MacBook around as he was walking toward my side of the room, and he stopped mid-sentence. He thought it was a video playing until he realized it was him staring back. Oh well. Got a camera phone after that one.