Building School 2.0: Creating the Schools We Need Building School 2.0: Creating the Schools We Need Chris Lehmann Science Leadership Academy Philadelphia, Chris Lehmann Science Leadership Academy Philadelphia,
Why This Matters
My Bias: Old Ideas and New Tools
More Bias: Citizenry, Not Workforce
One Last Bias: Public Education = Democracy
School Stinks
Do What You’re Told Over and over and over again...
Stuff You Might Never Need... or care about.
“Why Do I Need to Know This?”
It will be on the test... You’re going to need it some day... It’ll help you get a job... It looks good on a college resume... It’s a required class... (because someone told me I had to learn it / teach it.)
Is School Relevant? (are we relevant?)
The Modern School
School Can Teach Us How To Learn.
School Can Help Us Learn to Live.
The Paradox of Education 2016: Create New Things, Measured Old Ways Create New Things, Measured Old Ways
Data Driven Decisions Assume that you use good data...
Dream Bigger This isn’t personalized.
1/ Photo by Ewan McIntosh If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. - John Cleese
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler
What Will You Unlearn?
Tell A Better Story: We Must Have Vision
Caring Institutions We Teach Kids, Not Subjects
Inquiry Driven Ask Questions We Don’t Know The Answers To Ask Questions We Don’t Know The Answers To
Student Centered It’s Not About Us.
Teacher-Mentored Kids Need Adults
Community-BasedCommunity-Based We can learn from many
Collaborative Synthesis Works
Passionate High School Is Real Life
IntegratedIntegrated The day has to make sense
Meta-CognitiveMeta-Cognitive Think about thinking. Think about thinking.
Understanding-DrivenUnderstanding-Driven and Project-Based
Tests Homework Projects Class Participation Traditional Classrooms: Recall-Based
Projects Homework Class Participation Tests & Quizzes The Schools We Need: Understanding- Driven
Neil Postman: Certain Technologies Are Not Additive, They Are Transformative
Technology Like Oxygen Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible
Thoughtful, Wise, Passionate and Kind
How Do We Change the World? How Do We Change the World?
Inquiry is for all of us. Inquiry is for all of us. And Don’t Settle For Easy Answers
OrganizeOrganize The Time Is Now
Ideas Must Live In Practice Build Systems and Structures that Reflect Shared Vision
What Do You Think? The link between inquiry and care
Problematize Everything What is the worst consequence of your best idea?
Empower the Kids Empower It is their education, and it will be their world
Be One School Be What You Are For Everyone
Have Fun We get to teach!
Be Willing to Be Transformed We Have So Much Left to Learn
What do we teach in the Information Age?
Wisdom.
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