David Warlick, The Landmark Project
1 July 2003
http://landmark-project.com (home of citation machine, rubric builder, slate - webquest builder, been up since 1995)
Alvin Toffler: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn"
We are like salmon swimming upriver, and we are smiling because
From Raleigh, NC
David is a Mac usiner running OS X, the photo on his website represents at least 19 hour of photo enhancement!, he runs mySQL and writes in PHP
online newsletter edtechnot.com, just published newsletter article: "Stop integrating technology!"
New Century School House is virtual project: school gutted of all relics of 19th century education, teachers imagine what should be happening in that room, have embedded discussion boards
David is asking us to be futurists: this is at the heart of what we do already, prepare students for their future life
Tokyo and Hong Kong don't have land lines anymore, they are all cell phone, constantly in contact with each other, this has revolutionized their culture.
David's cell phone is web enabled (has never turned it on tho!)
Workplace of the future:
What we are doing in our classrooms today should reflect these realities
Futurists say we will be wearing our computers, phone rings, GPS toe rings
Levi marketing jacket in Europe with built in GPS, mp3 player, headphones, computer, all tied together with PAN (personal area network)
We would have almost nothing
We cannot clearly describe what the future will look like, today we do not have that picture, we don't know the skills and the lifestyles
The dialog we need as a nation is: what do children need to be learning today to be prepared for an uncertain future
Kids need REading, wRiting, aRithmetic (same literacy of George Bush, both of them)
According to this old literacy, if you can read and understand a magazine, you are literate
Sample is MLK website from Vincent Breeding at stormfront.org (White National Resource page)
Our students are reading in a 3D global world where anyone can publish anything at any time
If we can
It is not just being able to read what people say to you, it is also about exposing the truth
e-ink: Electronic ink: computer display that is thinner than a credit card, some are marketing this to businesses as signage
In 2000 Microsoft person predicted by 2018 when people say "book" they will mean electronic book
Waybackmachine is internet archive that has taken snapshots of webpages back in town (so when web content changes, you can look at old versions)
Must be able to evaluate info and determine what has value in terms of what you are interested in
Working with Data example: Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS)
Showed copying and pasting data, choosing DATA - Text to columns in Excel, then keeping just dates and latitude and longitude, then make scatterplot of earth
David's book: "Raw Materials for the Mind"
David has just learned to connect synthsizer to the computer, info that describes
He uses freeware software and quicktime, quicktime has synthesize built in (Intuem software)
this is literacy, because music communicates
Info is a raw material
need to not just teach kids to write, but how to communicate ideas compelling
world record: sent 200 sets of encyclopedia britannica in less than a minute to Europe, or 4 hours of DVD quality video (not creating this capacity for email, it is for multimedia) because multimedia is the way we are going to be communicating with in the future
only info that will have value will be that info that successfully competes for attention
David was a vegetarian until he discovered the Atkins diet, used example of recipie books
words communicate to the soul, pictures communicate to our desires
kids who just know how to write will not be literate in the 21st century
showed a video that a student recently created (video essay) about global economy and sweatshops (ME: I need to get a copy of the video and the runaway video shown by Apple VP)
Music communicates
Media specialists and librarians should be creating archives of school created music and video
The literacy our kids need is different than the literacy I learned in the 50s and 60s
Contemporary literacy
Ethics needs to be woven throughout these
Christine in Piper KS used turnitin.com and found plagiarism, gave zeros, principal and supt backed her, but then school board reversed
The value of information has changed: there were very few entities with control over the information in the past (to the masses: there was an imbalance)
In 21st century this balance changes, because we will all be info producers and intellectual property owners
The pen is mightier than the sword, the word processor can be mighter than nations
NEED TO TEACH KIDS TO LOVE THE TRUTH
We need to stop integrating technology when we go out into the community and tell them there are compelling
our task is to REDEFINE LITERACY for the 21st century and then use technology to integrate that
Has been 20 years since nation at risk report, we have not succeeded yet
Real educational reform: teachers who teach the same thing every day of every year-- that was fine
When Jennifer James she talks about 3 leaders: so good at something people are compelled to follow, those who are so creative people will follow, third type of leader are the people who can tell a compelling new story (these are the types of leaders we need) - we can use our classroom websites in this way