Bob Pearlman Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation

1. Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools: Reinventing the Secondary School Experience Bob PearlmanDirector of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation bobpearlman@mindspring.comhttp://www.bobpearlman.org New Schools, New Learning Birmingham, England October 13, 2004

2. The BSF Opportunity…. Total UK Investment = £ 46 billion over 10 years

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Your High School, 1964-- ??? Where were you in 1964?

6. Penncrest High School, Media, PA • 9th grade house • Flexibility to adapt to departmental or team structure • Flexible classrooms that can be adapted to different instructional uses • Community Center • Capacity 1600

7. Constructivist Learning • Block Schedule • Professional Community • Professional Development Center • The Learning Center • Project Rooms in every wing • Open public ceremonial space

8. UK Educational White Papers lack vision of: • 21st Century Learning • ICT as Tool and Infrastructure for 21st Century Learning

9. The Primary National Strategy moves this 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?

10. Dongguan

11. 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 7th in overall municipal competitiveness in China • Ranked 3rd in goods exported, behind Shanghai and Shenzhen

12. Bangalore

13. Bangalore • Silicon Valley of India • 7.2 million people, 5th largest city in India (+ 1 billion people) • 86% literacy • 1154 IT SW companies in 2003, up from 29 in 1993 • 116 new SW technology part units established in 2002-3 Top Ten SW Exporters, 2002-03: 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

14. 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.

15. 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."

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

17. 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

18. 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, self-management, integrity, and honesty.

19. Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

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

21. Released June 21, 2004 at NECC, New Orleans http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

23. So what do schools look like where students get 21st Century Knowledge and Skills?

25. Teachers talk and students listen.

26. The teacher has a monopoly on information

27. Students learn by not doing

28. How do we get them here?

29. Strategies that Make a Difference • Engagement • Hands-on • Adult connections • Internships • Real World immersion

30. 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

31. New Technology HS LEARNING OUTCOMES • WRITTEN COMMUNICATION • CAREER PREPARATION • CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS • CURRICULAR LITERACY (CONTENT STANDARDS) • TECHNOLOGY LITERACY • COLLABORATION • CRITICAL THINKING • ORAL COMMUNICATION

32. REPLICATION PROGRESS Anchorage (AK) Portland (OR) Anderson Rohnert Park Sacramento Napa Davis Vallejo Novato Oakland (conversion) New Orleans

33. 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.

34. 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)

35. Project ManagementTeamwork

36. Oral Communication/PresentationExhibition

38. Schools as Workplaces for 21st Century Students

43. 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!

44. NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL Study Toursand Visits http://www.newtechfoundation.org

45. Bob Pearlman bobpearlman@mindspring.org http://www.bobpearlman.org