Presentation at SXSW March 16, 2011 Launch of #teachin11

1. Learning 2.0
Creating The Schools We Need
Chris Lehmann
@chrislehmann
Science Leadership Academy
Philadelphia, PA

2. Why This Matters

3. My Bias:
Old Ideas and New Tools

4. More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce

5. Last Bias:
Public Education =

6. The Paradox of
Education 2011:
Create New Things,
Measured Old Ways

7. Data Driven Decisions:
Assume that you use good data --
and good data ain’t cheap.

8. What Do We Know?

9. 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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/

10. A Big
Problem:
Lack of
Humility

11. We Learn Best
When It Matters To Us
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davemadethis/3402329772/

12. Things Are
Know The Difference Between
Change and Innovation

13. Education:
vs. Training
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/45972760/sizes/o/

14. Technology Like Oxygen:
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

15. Neil Postman:
Certain Technologies Are
Not Additive, They Are
Transformative

16. Technology Transforms:
Creation
Research
Collaboration
Presentation
Networking

17. Tell A Better Story:
We Must Have Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/

18. Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not

19. Inquiry Driven
What are the questions
we can ask together?

20. Student Centered
It’s Not About Us.

21. Teacher-
Kids Need Adults

22. Community-Based
We can learn from many

23. Collaborative
Synthesis Works

24. Passionate
High School Is Real Life

25. Integrated
The day must make sense

26. Meta-Cognitive
We need to think
about thinking.

27. Traditional
Classrooms:
Recall-Based
Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation

28. The Schools
We Need:
Understanding-
Driven Projects
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes

29. The Goal:
Thoughtful Passionate
Wise Kind

30. How Do We
Change the
World?

31. Be Humbled By
The Task
And Be Skeptical of Those Who Aren’t

32. Keep Asking
Questions
And Don’t Settle For Easy Answers

33. What We Want For Kids
We Must Want For Teachers

34. “What’s Good?”
Not “What’s New?”
Be intentional in the use of tools and time

35. What Do You Think?
The link between inquiry and care

36. Empower
the Kids
It is their education, and it will be their
world

37. Continue the
Conversation
Dream big in every community

38. The Great
American Teach-In
May 10, 2011
http://www.declarationofeducation.com
#teachin11
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Us_declaration_independence.jpg

39. What do we teach
in the Information Age?

40. Wisdom.

41. Join us:
Chris Lehmann
The Great American Teach-In
May 10th, 2011
http://www.declarationofeducation.com
#teachin11
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: @chrislehmann
#140 Edu
http://140edu.com