2.0 and the 21st Century Learner
with Shelly Drumm
Digital Services Coordinator
Colorado State Library
drumm_m@cde.state.co.us
20th Century
21st Century
We live in an age where you can't get away with just giving kids information, because they already have at their fingertips almost all the information that exists in the universe.
Teacher Susan McCray
quoted in Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/maine-project-learning-technology-integration
21st century workers will be expected to 
contextualize
contribute
collaborate
1-2 jobs
Organizations are multi-directional
10-15 jobs
Organizational structure is top down
Learner-centered education
Focus on lifelong learning
Work is non-routine, techy, creative, interactive
Competition is local
Work is routine, Hands-on, Fact-based
Competition is global
Mastery of 1 field
Mastery of many changing fields
Insitution-centered education
Focus on degree attainment
Contextualize
transference of skills and knowledge
Contribute
blogs
Collaborate
Google Apps for Schools
wikis
google lit trip
voice thread
voicethread
multi-directional
creative
The full IMLS report: http://www.imls.gov/pdf/21stCenturySkills.pdf
storybird
http://storybird.com/books/stories-are-totally-cool-a-demo/
story telling
http://voicethread.com/#q.b80590.i411457
http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/9-12/Entries/2008/11/8_Expedition_Literature_Into_the_Wild_by_Jon_Krakauer.html
blogs
http://voicethread.com/#q.b80590.i411457
Thanks!
drumm_m@cde.state.co.us
Model it
Collaborate with teachers
Build relationships across departments
- and between organizations!
Express adventurousness and a spirit of play
Get online -
 purposefully
non-passive
Global
Photo from flickr user scott mcleod: 
http://tinyurl.com/notrustingteachers
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/k12.html
What's going on?!
It's even changing how we think.
http://pbworks.com/content/edu+overview
but i'm only a librarian....
psst... They can already do these things!
http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
s
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And not just in a bad way! 
We may be losing some of the capacity for contemplative concentration that was fostered by a print culture... but we're gaining new and essential ways of working.

http://tinyurl.com/2umggco
http://tinyurl.com/4thgradethread
Put 'em at ease with 
http://edublogs.org/
Glogster
http://edu.glogster.com