KeyNote: 10-14-06: Susan D. Patrick at E-Learn
Susan D. Patrick
President and CEO
North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL)
NACOL focuses on K-12 online learning.
What students are doing inside of school vs outside of school—what they are doing through their inside world vs their outside world.
Online learning—the single biggest transformational concept in education. It is leveling the playing field for students. Ideas about changing the system.
China is digitizing their whole curriculum.—building Wi Fi towers and broadcasting it out.
EU developing international baccalaureate programs—online.
Global Workforce (Tom Friedman—The World is Flat.)
• Competitiveness: Science, Technology. Engineering, Math
• Innovation, Risk-taking, Creativity
• China, India and Russia—3 billion
• Intel Science Competition 2004
o 65,000 Americans entered
o 6 million Chinese students
• Mexico Digital Curriculum and Instruction
• International E-Learning
o China India Japan Korea, European Union, Singapore, Australia, UK, Ghana, etc.
o Developing a new education strategy centered. Powered by online learning.
Mexico has an initiative to provide every single teacher with a laptop, digital curriculum, access to community technology centers.
Other countries are centering their educational strategies of E-Learning
Partnership for 21st Century Technology Skills
What students Need to Know: 21st Century ICT literacy
The future will demand people who can express themselves effectively with images, animation, sound, and video, solve real world problems that require processing and analysis of thousands of numbers,. Evaluate information for accuracy, reliability , and validity; and organize information into valuable knowledge, yet students are not learning these skills in school.
Six Key Elements of 21st Century Learning
1. Emphasize core subjects
2. Emphasize learning skills
3. Use 21st Century tools to develop learning
4. Teach and learning in 21st century context
5. Teach and learn 21st century content
6. Use 21st century assessments that measure 21srt century skills
Kids walk in the schoolhouse door, their faces become blank, as they realize they have to power down.
We assess with 1950s assessment models—bubble sheets—
Rethink the way we do everything—from textbooks to assessment.
Lease laptops instead of buying textbooks--$1.11 a day.
Went Out to Ask Students about What they thought about technology in schools—
$250,000 students gave feedback.
Distance Education in K-12 Public Schools 2002-2003
328,000 enrollments in 2002-2003
36% of public schools distrects have students enrolled in DE courses—not otherwise offered in the schools.
68% of online learning at secondary level.
90% use asynchronous iNternet based courses
51% use interactive two way learning
Sharing Research to Inform Policy
4 Key points
1. Online Learning Expands Options
2. Online Learning is Rapidly Growing
3. Is Effective: Equal of Better
4. Improves Teaching—Research from online teacher training program.
Teachers who teach online reported positive improvements in face-to-face, too
Of those who reported teaching face-to-face while teaching online or subsequently. Three in four reported a positive impact on their face to face teaching
(see her online presentation for research these points come from)
From the National Education Technology Plan—Towards a Golden Age in American Education (Goals)
• Every student should have access to e-learing
• Provide every student access to e-learning
• Enable every teacher to participate in e-learning training
• Encourage the use of e-learning options to meet NCLB
o Requirements
o Explore creative ways to fund e-learning
o Develop quality measures and accreditation standards for e-learning
• www.NationalEdTechPlan.org
Galllup Poll Oct 2005
40% of adults want students to take an online course to graduate
Michigan April 2006
• First state to require “online learning.”
• In new high school graduation requirements: “every student must have an online learning experience or course
• Need for online learning is greatest with students to access skills they will need to get ahead and compete in an increasingly technological workplace.
1952—Analogy from Dr. Seymour?
Project to develop fastest steamship—did and then Europe sent us the first cargo plane.
Systems Theory:
Are we redeveloping the steam ship or developing the first jet plane?
68% H.S. Graduation Rate
Prepare them for the world they are entering
System Design
Report—early 90s—Prisoners of Time
90% of fastest growing jobs are in technology
80% of jobs require at least 2 years of college
40% of high school have to go through basic remediation in basic skills
Silent Epidemic
Gates Foundation commissioned first study of high school drop outs
88% had passing grades
69^ were not mitivated to work hard
66% would have worked harder if more had been demanded of them
81% called for more real world learning opportunities
Transformation Vs Integration
Don’t rebuild the steamship!
Digital Divide Report
Capable, conscientious, concerned and optimistic generation, determined to succeed
96%--school is impt to their lives
(see online presentation)
12th graders perceptions about school –worsening—no connection between what is happening in our schools and happening in the real world.
What are our students telling us?
We have technology in our blood!
Creativity and Risk taking
• Your creativity is highest at six years of age—related to the number of questions asked per day.
• Lowest point: terminal seriousness at 44
• Bounce at retirement
Leadership
Trust
Integrity
Passion
President and CEO
North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL)
NACOL focuses on K-12 online learning.
What students are doing inside of school vs outside of school—what they are doing through their inside world vs their outside world.
Online learning—the single biggest transformational concept in education. It is leveling the playing field for students. Ideas about changing the system.
China is digitizing their whole curriculum.—building Wi Fi towers and broadcasting it out.
EU developing international baccalaureate programs—online.
Global Workforce (Tom Friedman—The World is Flat.)
• Competitiveness: Science, Technology. Engineering, Math
• Innovation, Risk-taking, Creativity
• China, India and Russia—3 billion
• Intel Science Competition 2004
o 65,000 Americans entered
o 6 million Chinese students
• Mexico Digital Curriculum and Instruction
• International E-Learning
o China India Japan Korea, European Union, Singapore, Australia, UK, Ghana, etc.
o Developing a new education strategy centered. Powered by online learning.
Mexico has an initiative to provide every single teacher with a laptop, digital curriculum, access to community technology centers.
Other countries are centering their educational strategies of E-Learning
Partnership for 21st Century Technology Skills
What students Need to Know: 21st Century ICT literacy
The future will demand people who can express themselves effectively with images, animation, sound, and video, solve real world problems that require processing and analysis of thousands of numbers,. Evaluate information for accuracy, reliability , and validity; and organize information into valuable knowledge, yet students are not learning these skills in school.
Six Key Elements of 21st Century Learning
1. Emphasize core subjects
2. Emphasize learning skills
3. Use 21st Century tools to develop learning
4. Teach and learning in 21st century context
5. Teach and learn 21st century content
6. Use 21st century assessments that measure 21srt century skills
Kids walk in the schoolhouse door, their faces become blank, as they realize they have to power down.
We assess with 1950s assessment models—bubble sheets—
Rethink the way we do everything—from textbooks to assessment.
Lease laptops instead of buying textbooks--$1.11 a day.
Went Out to Ask Students about What they thought about technology in schools—
$250,000 students gave feedback.
Distance Education in K-12 Public Schools 2002-2003
328,000 enrollments in 2002-2003
36% of public schools distrects have students enrolled in DE courses—not otherwise offered in the schools.
68% of online learning at secondary level.
90% use asynchronous iNternet based courses
51% use interactive two way learning
Sharing Research to Inform Policy
4 Key points
1. Online Learning Expands Options
2. Online Learning is Rapidly Growing
3. Is Effective: Equal of Better
4. Improves Teaching—Research from online teacher training program.
Teachers who teach online reported positive improvements in face-to-face, too
Of those who reported teaching face-to-face while teaching online or subsequently. Three in four reported a positive impact on their face to face teaching
(see her online presentation for research these points come from)
From the National Education Technology Plan—Towards a Golden Age in American Education (Goals)
• Every student should have access to e-learing
• Provide every student access to e-learning
• Enable every teacher to participate in e-learning training
• Encourage the use of e-learning options to meet NCLB
o Requirements
o Explore creative ways to fund e-learning
o Develop quality measures and accreditation standards for e-learning
• www.NationalEdTechPlan.org
Galllup Poll Oct 2005
40% of adults want students to take an online course to graduate
Michigan April 2006
• First state to require “online learning.”
• In new high school graduation requirements: “every student must have an online learning experience or course
• Need for online learning is greatest with students to access skills they will need to get ahead and compete in an increasingly technological workplace.
1952—Analogy from Dr. Seymour?
Project to develop fastest steamship—did and then Europe sent us the first cargo plane.
Systems Theory:
Are we redeveloping the steam ship or developing the first jet plane?
68% H.S. Graduation Rate
Prepare them for the world they are entering
System Design
Report—early 90s—Prisoners of Time
90% of fastest growing jobs are in technology
80% of jobs require at least 2 years of college
40% of high school have to go through basic remediation in basic skills
Silent Epidemic
Gates Foundation commissioned first study of high school drop outs
88% had passing grades
69^ were not mitivated to work hard
66% would have worked harder if more had been demanded of them
81% called for more real world learning opportunities
Transformation Vs Integration
Don’t rebuild the steamship!
Digital Divide Report
Capable, conscientious, concerned and optimistic generation, determined to succeed
96%--school is impt to their lives
(see online presentation)
12th graders perceptions about school –worsening—no connection between what is happening in our schools and happening in the real world.
What are our students telling us?
We have technology in our blood!
Creativity and Risk taking
• Your creativity is highest at six years of age—related to the number of questions asked per day.
• Lowest point: terminal seriousness at 44
• Bounce at retirement
Leadership
Trust
Integrity
Passion
posted by Jeannine Hirtle @ 10/14/2006 12:46:00 PM
1 Comments:
At 10/14/2006 9:56 PM,
Scott S. Floyd said…
This is a great post, Jeannine. Thanks for blogging it. It gave me so much to think about that I created a new post. Wish I were there. Also, think some of it would link to the SITE piece?
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