Preparing for the Future of Education. Take A Look Around You.

Preparing for the
Future of EducationAre you Ready?

SILVIAROSENTHALTOLISANO
@LA NGWITCHES
globallyconnectedlearning.com

TakeAnother
Look
AroundYouLearning to Learn in a New World
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

“What Year
are you preparing
your students for?”
Heidi Hayes Jacobs

mean to be
Educated
What does it

Literate?
What does it mean
to be

Digital
What does it mean
to be
Literate?

AreTraditionalNotions
of Literacy
sufficient
for a 21st Century
Education?

What will our Children &
grandchildren need to know
to
What skills & dispositions do the need to possess?
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23
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Learning How to Learn
Now Literacies
Growth Mindset
Adapt to Change

Learning how to Learn
learn-unlearn-re-learn
1

Tomorrow’silliterate
the man who can’t read;
he will be
the man
who has 
not learned how to learn
Herbert Gerjuoy
will
not be

“The World only
how you learned it)”.
withwhatyou
CAN DO
KNOW
Thomas Friedman
caresaboutwhat
you
(and it doesn’t care
SilviaRosenthalTolisano-@langwitches

“Now Literacies”
The Ability to Read, Write and
Communicate in TODAY’S world
2

Skills
Modern
communicate
connect create
collaborate
critical thinking

Literacies
connect
collaboratebasic information citizenship
media
M o d e r n
global network

Overwhelmed?
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano - @langwitches - www.globallyconnectedlearning.com

already
know
this!
I

Growth MindsetIntelligence can be developed and leads to a
desire to learn
3

a Mindset
Pre-requisitefor
aNEducatortothrive
of a Learner

Pre-requisiteforaSchooltothrive
a Mindset
ofaLearningCommunity
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2577006675/

Where Magic
Happens…
SilviaRosenthalTolisano-@langwitches-www.globallyconnectedlearning.com

Adapt to ChangeEveryone can change and grow through
application and experience
4

21st CenturyRip Van Winkle
wakes up in the
after a hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees.

Whatwillour
Grandchildrennotknow?

The changewe are in the
middle of isn’t minorand it
isn’t optionalClay Shirky

CHANGE is Happening Faster
than ever before

,
Eric Shinseki
even less
irrelevance
you are going to like
If you don’t like
change

consumers
Our Society has moved from
toproducers
being
Participatory

Shifts in Culture, Affecting
Education

Choices
Who do We go to for
Information?

& Curate
Building Content Knowledge
Collaborate

VoiceYou have a
The Middle Man is Gone!

Options
In any given moment, we have two
:
to step forward
"
Growth
Safety
into
or to step back into .
Abraham Harold Maslow
"

Challengeshttp://langwitches.me/cotopaxi
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REFLECTIONlearn-reﬂect-share

Think about it
What did you do?

EXIT TICKETChoose 1
1 2 3
Post-It 30 Sec. 1 Word
On a post-it note,
not using more
than 140
characters:
How has learning
changed?
How does teaching
have to adapt?
Record a video with
your cell phone
completing the following
sentence:
I used to learn in
school…. now my child
has to learn…
Write on a piece of paper:
1 Word that describes a
change that you have
experienced in the area of
education. Take a selﬁe,
showing that 1 word to
the camera
Post on the wall email video clip to langwitches@gmail.com emailimage to langwitches@gmail.com

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