Digital and Collaborative Learning Mind Lab - Jo Pearson

21st Century Skills If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow - Supposedly John Dewey (thought in fact Dewey never actually wrote that!). Google forms - Google doc add ons - Word cloud generator. 4C's of 21st century learning. ITL (innovative teaching and leanring research) International study. (Sponsered Microsoft partners of learning. Collaboration Knowledge construction Self-regulation Real world problems/innovations ICT for learning Skilled communication Goal: Revealing the power of a good 21st century learning activity.  Renew education eco-systems around the world.  https://education.microsoft.com/GetTrained/ITL-Research  Self regulation:  Key competencies in Leadership:  http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Key-competencies/Tools/Leadership-and-the-key-competencies  Thinking Relating to others Understanding text, symbols and language.  Managing self Participation and...

What 60 schools can tell us about about teaching 21st century skills?  Old - Industrialised education system. What do we do in the classroom to get better at critical thinking and problem solving? Ask lots of question and develop systems instead of subjects. Finding problems instead of solving problems. Risks are good things. Bad news: Schools not good at innovation. Struggle with change. Connection is the key to change. Many people are facing the same problems -Link to NCOL. Innovation - Fail forward, fail backward, self-correcting, Moving to the opposite of Industrial model: Natural eco-system of the world - Creative, adaptive, permeable, dynamic, systemic, self-correcting. Dewey, Montessori. Teach into the unknown. Self evolving learners. Self evolving organisations. Preparing our students for their future not our past. John Dewey, "If we teach our children as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow".

Session Notes:  Unknown future jobs- Rain forest re constructor, Robot rights lawyer, Solar plane racer, Dinosaur breeder, Organic fashion designer, 3D printer - food designer/multiplier, What jobs are replaceable by robots? Oral language post it. Collaboration. Fail faster, learn quicker! Followship - Are you a leader? Many ways you can show. Tango - Leader and Follower. Partnerships. Responsibility. Respect - Shared Vision. Unique contributions from both follower and leader. 'What tango teaches us about these roles in life' You Tube. Share e Learning Team. Distributed leadership. Ethos of alternating roles - Leader/Follower. Continuum reasons why you want to be part of the e Learning team. - Sort. Decision Making - Goal setting - Communicating - Adjudicating conflict - Maintaining the enterprise. Action points:  Include  Fellowship ideas in eLearning team meeting. Reasons why you want to be part of the e Learning team. - Sort. Add Possible future jobs ...