Presenter:
David Jakes, Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, IL

Session Description

Yes, emerging technologies have great potential. But how do we make them work in our schools today? This session explores the implementation of a multi-dimensional digital space with three components—a course space, a student-content creation space, and a knowledge commons that supports both—and examines how they support the development of learning literacy. Come prepared to evaluate these three spaces and discuss the organizational readiness that was required to take them from conversation to implementation.

Here is the slidedeck for the presentation:

Resources:

A Collection of Perspectives on 21st Century Learning | David Jakes

The factors of organizational readiness | David Jakes

Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype:  Focusing on What Really Matters

My literacy resources at del.icio.us | David Jakes

My learning spaces at del.icio.us | David Jakes

Resources:  Learning Spaces

Educating the Net Generation | see Chapter 12 on Learning Spaces

Learning Spaces | See all 43 Chapters | Educause

Leading the Transition from Classroom to Learning Space | NLII White Paper

Opening Up Learning: From Spaces to Environments | Educause

Learning Spaces:  More Than Meets the Eye | Brown and Lippincott

Learning Environments:  Where Space Technology and Culture Converge | Wargar and Dobbin

Learning Spaces-Images on Flickr

Infocommons- Images on Flickr

Literacy Resources

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy (student writing)

Expanding on the Concept of Literacy | Elizabeth Daly

New Students, New Media, New Literacies | Jason Ohler

New Media Literacies | Jason Ohler

Orchestrating the Media Collage | Jason Ohler

Questions to consider when considering building learning spaces:

How would you characterize learning spaces in schools today?

What does systemic mean to you?

Are there new literacies?  Or just a new context for the development of literacy?

What five cores skills would you identify as key components that contribute to the development of literacy?

Given those core skills, what attributes run horizontally across all core skills? (for example, adaptability or intellectually curiosity are attributes that may be

What are the key components of a multidimensional learning space?

What is the relationship/importance of the interactions between formal and informal learning spaces?

How can/will you promote informal learning within the context of a virtual learning space?

Why is the development of a multidimensional learning space essential to education in the 21st Century?

How do we rethink the dimensions of learning?  Can, and should, learning be independent of time, space, and place, in K-12 education?

Who are the critical stakeholders that need to be involved in developing a multidimensional learning space?

What is required for an organization to be ready for the development of a multidimensional learning space?

Do you believe that social networking is a skill that schools should help students learn and understand?  Are there other forms of networking that might be more appropriate?  (academic networking, professional networking)

In a digital learning space, what new roles are required?  What roles emerge? 

What policies do you have in place to scaffold and support the learning that takes place in these new spaces?

How will you assess what takes place in the learning space?

What solution will you build?

Should students be able to contribute content to the knowledge commons?