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Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools: Reinventing the Secondary School Experience Bob Pearlman Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation bobpearlman@mindspring. com http: //www. bobpearlman. org New Schools, New Learning Birmingham, England October 13, 2004 1

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros The BSF Opportunity…. Total UK Investment = £ 46 billion over 10 years 2

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros The BSF Challenge…. School Opening for 2007 -8 Construction 2006 -7 Physical design 2005 -6 Educational Design by …… Is BSF a Construction Program or an Educational Program? Are we being asked to spend money before we know what to do? 3

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros The BSF Danger…. Some say if you get the design right, then the education will follow? ? ? Will the new BSF Schools just be Old Wine in New Bottles? 4

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Your High School, 1964 -- ? ? ? Where were you in 1964? 5

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Penncrest High School, Media, PA n 9 th grade house n. Flexibility to adapt to departmental or team structure n. Flexible classrooms that can be adapted to different instructional uses n. Community n. Capacity Center 1600 6

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 n. Constructivist n. Block 1083 _Macros Learning Schedule n. Professional Community n. Professional Development Center n. The Learning Center n. Project n. Open Rooms in every wing public ceremonial space 7

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros UK Educational White Papers lack vision of: • 21 st Century Learning • ICT as Tool and Infrastructure for 21 st Century Learning 8

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros The Primary National Strategy moves thinking on by articulating 7 aspects of learning: • enquiry • problem solving • creativity • information processing • reasoning • evaluation • personal, emotional and social skills But Why and How? 9

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Dongguan 10

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Dongguan • 7 million people. Grew from less than 1 million in 1979 • 15, 000 International Companies • 25, 000 companies total -- 10, 000 of them are computer related manufacturers, representing 40% of all international computer part market • Ranked 7 th in overall municipal competitiveness in China • Ranked 3 rd in goods exported, behind Shanghai and Shenzhen 11

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Bangalore 12

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Bangalore • Silicon Valley of India • 7. 2 million people, 5 th largest city in India (+ 1 billion people) • 86% literacy • 1154 IT SW companies in 2003, up from 29 in 1993 Top Ten SW Exporters, 2002 -03: • 116 new SW technology part units established in 2002 -3 Infosys Technologies Ltd. Wipro Ltd. IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Digital Global Soft. Ltd. I-Flex Solutions Ltd. Texas Instruments Cisco Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. Mphasis BFL Ltd. Philips Software Centre 13

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny. By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004 Globalization 1. 0 From the late 1800's to World War I, was driven by falling transportation costs, thanks to the steamship and the railroad. shrank the world from a size large to a size medium. Globalization 2. 0 From the 1980's to 2000, was based on falling telecom costs and the PC, and shrank the world from a size medium to a size small. 14

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny. By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004 Globalization 3. 0 Produced by three forces: • Massive installation of undersea fiber-optic cable and bandwidth (thanks to the dot-com bubble) that have made it possible to globally transmit and store huge amounts of data for almost nothing. • Second, the diffusion of PC's around the world. • Third, the convergence of a variety of software applications — from e-mail, to Google, to Microsoft Office, to specially designed outsourcing programs — that, when combined with all those PC's and bandwidth, made it possible to create global "work-flow platforms. " 15

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21 st Century? “Will this generation of learners have the skills and preparation to innovate? ” -- Barry Schuler, Former CEO, AOL At NTHS Founder’s Day Event 16

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991) Competencies – effective workers can productively use: • Resources -- identifying, organizing, planning, and allocating time, money, materials, and workers; • Interpersonal Skills -- negotiating, exercising leadership, working with diversity, teaching others new skills, serving clients and customers, and participating as a team member; • Information Skills -- using computers to process information and acquiring and evaluating, organizing and maintaining, and interpreting and communicating information; • Systems Skills -- understanding systems, monitoring and correcting system performance, and improving and designing systems; and • Technology utilization skills -- selecting technology, applying technology to a task, and maintaining and troubleshooting technology. Source: What Work Requires of School, 1991, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U. S. Department of Labor 17

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991) The Foundation – competence requires: • Basic Skills -- reading, writing, speaking, listening, and knowing arithmetic and mathematical concepts; • Thinking Skills -- reasoning, making decisions, thinking creatively, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, and knowing how to learn; and • Personal Qualities -- responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, selfmanagement, integrity, and honesty. 18

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 19

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Working in the Real World (i. e. California? ) • Projects, projects • Teamwork and collaboration • Self-direction • Interpersonal skills and Networking • Project Management, Leadership • No one asks about your formal education 20

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Released June 21, 2004 at NECC, New Orleans http: //www. 21 stcenturyskills. org 21

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Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros So what do schools look like where students get 21 st Century Knowledge and Skills? 23

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Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Teachers talk and students listen. 25

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools The teacher has a monopoly information on 19 1083 _Macros 26

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 Students learn by not doing 1083 _Macros 27

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools How do we get them here? 19 1083 _Macros 28

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Strategies that Make a Difference n. Engagement n. Hands-on n. Adult connections n. Internships n. Real World immersion 29

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros New Technology High School Napa, California http: //www. newtechhigh. org/ § Integrating technology into every class § Interdisciplinary and project-based § Internship class consisting of classroom curriculum and unpaid work in technology, business or education § Digital Portfolio http: //www. newtechfoundation. org/nthlearning. html 30

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros New Technology HS LEARNING OUTCOMES • TECHNOLOGY LITERACY • WRITTEN COMMUNICATION • COLLABORATION • CAREER PREPARATION • CRITICAL THINKING • CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS • ORAL COMMUNICATION • CURRICULAR LITERACY (CONTENT STANDARDS) 31

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros REPLICATION PROGRESS Anchorage (AK) Portland (OR) Anderson Rohnert Park Novato Napa Sacramento Davis Vallejo Oakland (conversion) New Orleans 32

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros At the core is a student centered, project and problem based teaching strategy that is tied to both content standards and school wide learning outcomes. 33

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros PROJECT BASED LEARNING PBL vs. Doing Projects The Project is the Curriculum Creating a “Need to Know” Teacher Acts as a Coach Focus on Skills (ESLRs) 34

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Project Management Teamwork 35

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Oral Communication/Presentation Exhibition 36

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Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Schools as Workplaces for 21 st Century Students 38

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Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Make BSF an Educational Program, not a Construction Program! • Educators need to write the Educational Specifications for the New Builds! • Start pilots of the New Learning Environments (Rich Tasks, PBL) Now! 43

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL Study Tours and Visits http: //www. newtechfoundation. org 44

Designing the 21 st Century Secondary Schools 19 1083 _Macros Bob Pearlman bobpearlman@mindspring. org http: //www. bobpearlman. org 45