Wednesday, March 4
8:15 AM-9:30 AM
UTC
Ballroom B

Pathways to 21st Century Teaching

Keynote ID: 26347
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    Tom Carroll
    National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future

Abstract: Two disruptive forces – Baby Boom Retirements and an Open Learning Economy – will transform schools from teaching organizations into learning organizations. In less than a decade, teacher development will take place in networked learning studios where cross-generational teams co-create constantly evolving learning challenges. Over fifty percent of today’s teachers are Boomers. Their retirements will clear the way for a new learning economy to accelerate the transformation of schools into 21st century learning organizations, which will emerge in less than a decade. Data on teacher and principal demographics and emerging trends in the new learning economy will be presented to support a vision for transforming schools into learning studios that become hubs and nodes in a networked learning environment. In addition to demographic trends, five implications of the new learning economy will be discussed: 1. Smart networking supports the co-creation of new learning environments; 2. Teacher development will be embedded in these new learning environments (studios); 4. Deep personalization will support participatory pedagogy (learner driven and learner created); and 5. New teaching roles and career paths will emerge. This presentation will be based on research and policy papers developed by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. Those resources are, and will be available on our website [www.nctaf.org]. The goal is to focus the audience on disruptive forces in education, and provide a vision for how to transform schools into 21st century learning organizations. A paper for publication will be produced in conjunction with this presentation. The presenter, who founded Challenge Grants for Technology in Education, and the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Program (PT3), is President of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.

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