Okay Julia here is another one this time I have Becky’s help keeping up with the notes this time.

David Warlick second session: Telling the New Story. A look at redefining literacy.
How do we make changes happen?
We need to tell a different story it must be: Compelling, Exciting and Shatters old notions

Leaders that affect change,
Change begin with a story
Dr. Jennifer James (cultural anthropologist) describes 3 kinds of leaders.

• Master – so good you can’t help but follow
• Creative – new and exciting (Einstein Speilberg)
• Storyteller – compelling storytellers; Mandella, King, Ghandi

3 components of a compelling story

• fits market place
• resonates with deeply held values
• can be modeled

His talk refers to these books a few times they really are must reads.

• The World is Flat
• The Rise of the Creative Class
• The Flight of the Creative Class
• The Long Tail

Market place
Globalization  goes through the beak down of where the parts of a computer come together.
Moving from industrial to creative age
More interested in the content, creative stuff, the stories we interact with on the technology.

Deeply held values
These are held by our children the ones we are trying to reach, these are the values that need to be included.
Our audience was born:
Post Reagen era
Post Gulf war
They never played pac man or pong
Only contact with the past in the classroom
They are smart and connected, do not have walls talk to everyone, everywhere they do not have walls. Aliens w/invisible tentacles
They learn from the network they have created through these tentacles they find out what they need to know when they need to know it by whomever will provide the help/answers.

This generation created a modern mobile language collaboratively (IM) not by formal standards committee now we need to teach them when to use what type of language based on audience and purpose of the writing.

He spoke about John Beck on gaming
Learn through video games. Gamers are more competitive, more sociable and risk taking. Develop leadership skills, team players and collaborative, more self-confident can take on rolls, make them more flexible. They fail repeatedly but the keep trying and finally succeed to the make it to the next level

Games can teach about the economy such as roller coaster tycoon
We need to be the cheat code for kids the strategist, not the boss/monster the kids are trying to beat in the game

Model the Story

Speaking about Vinod Khosla founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, he made the following comments
Children believe that everything is clickable even their parents
There is no longer a need to teach kids he facts

What they need to know is what to do with the facts, how to find the facts and how to prove they are truthful and relevant facts.

Technorati is to the blogosphere what Google is to the web. The web is like a library it is where we look up information but the blogosphere is another layer, a layer of conversation. It is a discussion of the brand new questions is found on blogs. It is where we are discussing the meaning, relevance and importance of information

The InnoCentive project brokers corporation with problem-solvers for scientific challenges. If they like your solution you can get paid from $10,000 to $100,00 for solution. They have found people from outside tend to be those providing the solution. They are educated in other areas so are thinking outside the box.

From the perspective of their information landscape, our students are more literate than we are, and they know it.

Vinod Khosla Content today is the dominant thing but one thing that I can say is that it is going to be the company that can grow and maintain the audience (not the content ) that become the engine.

So how to we get our classrooms to become a learning engine.

Look at the video game experience it is
Responsiveness
Convertible and converseable rewards
Personal investment
Identity building encourage kids to be the scientists, they tend do so more then they play at being some one else- will think a scientist can do this but not a 9 year old little girl.
Dependability you always know the answer is there

The remix culture kids always remixing what information they get into a form they understand.

According to The World is Flatthere 4 kinds of people who will be successful

• Special – highly talented Michael Jordan
• Specialized- know something no one else knows
• Highly adaptable – learn unlearn and re-learn
• Anchored – barbers, cooks, farmers

The future is not secure we should not be preparing students for a secure future instead we should prepare them for a future of opportunity.

Education is a in quite crisis. (Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Renselear Polytechnic Institute) a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. (Paul Romer, Standford Economist)

So what are you waiting for..

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