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Rethinking Learning in a Connected World 
Dean Shareski 
#eysmp 
Sudbury, ON 
October 28, 2014
Rethinking Learning in a Connected World
Rethinking Learning in a Connected World
How is Learning 
Different in 2014?
There’s never been a better time to be a learner
There’s never been a better time to be a learner 
And a more challenging time for schools
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DISRUPTION
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“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his 
spare time, not because he hates you but 
because he loves you, then you got a problem.”
Chris Avenir
Chris Avenir 
Ryerson University sites 3 reasons for 
the case against him. 
1.Learning should be hard. 
2.There is no structure of regulation 
for online behavior and that makes it 
incompatible with academic work. 
3.It is our job to protect academic 
integrity from any threat. 
i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by others, it 
fails to meet the standard for academic rigor.
BHQ
BHQ Big Hairy Questions
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“This is not 
what I signed 
up for” 
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“I waited fourteen years to do 
something that I should have done 
my first year of teaching: shadow a 
student for a day.” 
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Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.
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Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting. 
High School students are sitting passively and 
listening during approximately 90% of their 
classes.
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Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting. 
High School students are sitting passively and 
listening during approximately 90% of their 
classes. 
You feel a little bit like a nuisance all day long.
The Role of the Teacher is Changing: Phil Schlechty
The Role of the Teacher is Changing: Phil Schlechty
Instructor
Designer Guide 
Instructor 
Creative Commons – Attribution (CC BY 3.0) 
Teacher designed by Musavvir Ahmed from the Noun Project 
Creative Commons – Attribution (CC BY 3.0) 
Education designed by Travis Yunis from the Noun Project
IT’S TIME TO 
RETHINK 
EVERYTHING
IT’S TIME TO 
RETHINK 
SOME THINGS
Rethinking Literacy
What does it mean 
to be a literate 
person in 2014?
What does it mean 
to be a literate 
person in 2014?
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Consumption Creation 
Reading 
Listening 
Viewing 
Writing 
Speaking 
Representing
Consumption Creation 
Reading 
Listening 
Viewing 
Writing 
Speaking 
Representing
Consumption Creation 
Reading 
Listening 
Viewing 
Writing 
Speaking 
Representing
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If a student goes a year without creating a video...
If a student goes a year without creating a video... 
it would be like going 
a year without writing a story
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I’m eating bacon
I like bacon
I have skills eating bacon
This is where I eat bacon
Watch me eating bacon
Here’s a vintage photo of my bacon
Here’s a recipe with bacon
I work for Google and I eat bacon
I’m listening to music about bacon
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Rethinking Community
Rethinking Community
What is the role 
of community in 
the classroom?
What is the role 
of community in 
the classroom?
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“It still shocks me, the extent to which we 
continue to dumb down the affordances of 
the Web and technology for authentic 
learning in the service of keeping the system 
grinding no matter what the obstacle.” 
Will Richardson
“Mind-Your-Own-Business Learning” 
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“Can you send me all the 
assignments ahead of time?”
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“Time spent on 
community is always 
time well spent” 
Tracy Carpenter 
#DEStreamathon
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING 
•Learning is Social and Connected
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING 
•Learning is Social and Connected 
•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING 
•Learning is Social and Connected 
•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed 
•Learning is Shared and Transparent
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING 
•Learning is Social and Connected 
•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed 
•Learning is Shared and Transparent 
•Learning is Rich in Content and Diversity
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING 
•Learning is Social and Connected 
•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed 
•Learning is Shared and Transparent 
•Learning is Rich in Content and Diversity 
•Learning Ought to be Joyful
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Give them Their Own Space
Connect in 
Multiple Ways
Connect in 
Multiple Ways
Connect in 
Multiple Ways
Connect in 
Multiple Ways
Connect in 
Multiple Ways
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Be a Connector
“The Lazy Professor”
Help them Build a Network
Play Together 
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Expectations of 
Community 
“Class size only matters if the 
teacher does everything” 
Mark Prensky
Expectations of 
Community
Expectations of 
Community 
What
 did
 you
 learn
 from
 others?
 
  
! 
What
 did
 you
 contribute
 to
 the
 learning
  
of
 others?
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Rethinking Research 
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What role does 
research play in our 
current practice?
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Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
“My argument is not with educational research 
but with the imperative of evidence-based 
education policy. At its best, educational 
research can provide important 
insights into the relationship 
between various social and cultural 
variables and pedagogic outcomes.” 
Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
But the principal problem educators face today is not the dearth of 
educational research or a lack of evidence about ‘what works’, but 
rather the increasing absence of any 
opportunity for them to exercise 
professional judgment and to learn the value of 
what Aristotle call phronesis – the virtue of judgment. 
Experimentation in education should 
be part of a teacher’s everyday life. 
Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
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“Books are designed to contain all the 
information required to stop inquiries within 
the book’s topic. But now that our medium 
can handle far more ideas and information, 
and now that it is a connective medium 
(ideas to ideas, people to 
ideas, people to people), our 
strategy is changing. And that is changing 
the very shape of knowledge.”
The
 Death
 of
 Publishing 
“[T]he word “publishing” means a cadre of 
professionals who are taking on the 
incredible difficulty and complexity and 
expense of making something public. 
That’s not a job anymore. That’s a 
button. There’s a button that says “publish,” 
and when you press it, it’s done.” Clay Shirky
The
 Death
 of
 Publishing 
“[T]he word “publishing” means a cadre of 
professionals who are taking on the 
incredible difficulty and complexity and 
expense of making something public. 
That’s not a job anymore. That’s a 
button. There’s a button that says “publish,” 
and when you press it, it’s done.” Clay Shirky
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Reflection
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