David Warlick at 2007 AASB Conference in Alaska

David Warlick summarizes the 21st Century Literacy Skills presentation he gave at the Association of Alaska School Boards Annual Conference in Anchorage, Alaska on 11/10/07.

In this video Mr. Warlick discusses three converging conditions that are forcing us to rethink teaching and learning: an unpredictable future, info savvy students, and a new information landscape. A condensed version of his PowerPoint slides follows the interview.

David Warlick is the president of the Landmark Project, a consulting firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. His website receives more than ten million visits a month from educators accessing some of the most popular teacher tools available on the Internet. He is author of three books on instructional technology and 21st century literacy.

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Education

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• Schools
• education
• technology
• 21st
• century
• literacy
• digital
• learning

[boxxplayer]

The most important value of information is its validity -- is it true, biased, incomplete, false? How do we prepare students to be WISE consumers of information?

Consider student use of calculators -- just because you put in some numbers and got a result does not guarantee accuracy or applicability to the question.

How do we educate students to see past the veneer of credibility, who will do their research in peer-reviewed sources before they go to Wikipedia?

[karencsmath]

So, how is Alaska spear-heading this? I have been hearing this same thing for a decade, yet I see little change in how education is processing and employing this new literacy in my school district. When will the paradigm shift really happen? How are schools going to access this new power info learning?

[ilovechefwilliam]

What a great presentation.

[JennyPow3]

The greatest challenge is that we are preparing students for jobs that haven't been created yet.