Bob Pearlman New Schools Project, North Carolina May 16, 2005

1. 21st Century High Schools: The New Tech High School Model Bob Pearlman New Schools Project, North Carolina May 16, 2005 Download Slides at http://www.bobpearlman.org/NorthCarolina.htm

2. Dongguan

3. 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

4. Bangalore

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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 Author, “The World is Flat” • 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."

8. “ … the winners will be those most adept at marshaling the creativity and skills of workers around the world.” -- Business Week, March 21, 2005

9. What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st Century?

10. SCANS U.S. Department of Labor Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills COMPETENCIES - Effective workers can productively use: • Resources - allocating time, money, materials, space and staff. • Interpersonal Skills - working on teams, teaching others, serving customers, leading, negotiating, and working well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds. • Information - acquiring and evaluating data, organizing and maintaining files, interpreting and communication, and using computers to process information. • Systems - understanding social, organizational and technological systems, monitoring and correcting performance, and designing or improving systems. • Technology - selecting equipment and tools, applying technology to specific tasks, and maintaining and troubleshooting technologies. FOUNDATIONS - Competence requires: • Basic Skills - reading, writing, arithmetic and mathematics, speaking and listening. • Thinking Skills - thinking creatively, making decisions, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, knowing how to learn, and reasoning. • Personal Qualities - individual responsibilities, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, and integrity. 1992

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

12. http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

14. -----------------------------------------Printed from LocalTechWire.comPosted: 04/21/2005 08:45 PM-----------------------------------------Easley Announces Education Partnership for 21st Century Workforce By Laura Childs, Special To LTWDURHAM- “The ‘90s were last century. The future is about partnerships between business and education.” This was the message Governor Mike Easley shared at a surprise announcement Thursday to a crowd of over 500 community leaders at NCTA’s A CEO Conversation at the Washington Duke in Durham. “We will identify the skills needed by future employees to create students that can compete and win in a global economy,” emphasized Easley. “We don’t want to be second, we want to win!” The initiative on how to make that happen is called The North Carolina Center for 21st Century Skills, and jumpstarts the beginning of a nationwide campaign to improve education to produce college graduates that are better prepared to enter the global workforce of today and tomorrow. The Center will be housed at the North Carolina Business Committee for Education (NCBCE) and is a public-private partnership supported by North Carolina public schools, community colleges and universities, in addition to corporations and businesses.“We must continue to reform our public school system to meet the growing demands of the new global economy,” said Governor Easley. “The new 21st Century Skills Center will ensure that students graduate from our educational institutions with the skills they need to compete and succeed in the workplace. I am proud that North Carolina is a national leader in education progress.”

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

16. What learning curricula, activities, and experiences, foster 21st Century learning? And what does schooling look like?

18. Teachers talk and students listen.

19. The teacher has a monopoly on information

20. Students learn by not doing

21. How do we get them here?

22. 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 work-based learning in regional companies • Digital Portfolio http://www.newtechfoundation.org/

24. NETWORK PROGRESS Anchorage Portland Anderson New Orleans Sacramento Rohnert Park Napa Davis* IN PROGRESS Denver Los Angeles New Orleans* Vallejo Novato Oakland* Chicago Sarasota American Canyon

25. 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.

27. CURRICULUM INTEGRATION • COMMUNICATION STUDIES • 9TH Grade Language Arts • Drama • GLOBAL STUDIES • World History and Civilizations • 10th Grade Language Arts • AMERICAN STUDIES • United States History • American Literature • POLITICAL STUDIES • Government/Economics • Political Literature 2 teachers, 45-50 students, meeting for 2 hour blocks each day • SCIENTIFIC STUDIES • Algebra II • Physics

28. Project ManagementTeamwork

29. Oral Communication/PresentationExhibition

31. WORK LOAD AND HOMEWORK “ “ We don’t have a lot of homework at New Tech Students at New Tech have a lot of work to do … some of that work happens outside of class time. But we don’t assign the kind of work that students normally associate with “homework”. In addition, they have internships, community service, senior project and portfolio requirements. Like professional workers, they see it as work, not homework.

32. Internships • Major impact on high school performance • Major impact on Post-secondary success

33. Transform the Secondary School Student Experience! Personalization Projects Exhibitions Digital Portfolios Internships Technology

34. What physical learning environments (classroom, school, and real world) foster 21st century student learning?

38. Schools as Workplaces for 21st Century Students

39. FACILITIES FRAMEWORK Large classrooms that allow for team teaching, computers, group work and creates an environment that reflects school’s purpose. Technology infrastructure to support 1:1 computer ratios

40. How can ICT support a 21st Century collaborative learning environment and support a learning community?

41. TECHNOLOGY TOOLS FOR … • Learning • Curriculum • Communication • Assessment • Scalability* • Computerized Tutorials • On-Line Curriculum • E-Library • Academic Systems • Project Standardization • Digital Textbooks • Document Libraries • Project Design Template • Online Curriculum • Internship Coordination • Student E-Mail • Parent E-Bulletin • Collaboration Database • Learning Logs • Digital Gradebooks • Student Journals • Support Databases • Account Management • PBL Unit Library • Customizable Templates

42. TOOLS: PROJECT BRIEFCASE The Project Briefcase allows teachers to put all project materials in one spot for easy student access and to share with other teachers.

43. CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK The Project Library allows teachers in our network of schools to search, view and download projects that other teachers have found successful.

44. TOOLS: COURSE AGENDA The Course Agenda helps keep complicated projects organized.

45. Teachers enter activities for each day including links to resources and homework assignments.

47. TOOLS: PRESENTATION EVALUATION DATABASE