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 * //__The 21st Century Teacher: A Shifting Landscape__//**

The 20th Century teacher.... the power and control, knowledge was a static thing to be acquired, world of absolutes, expert authority...

What capabilities may we need as teachers in the future?

What shifts do we need to make? Flexibility, connectivity, personalizing learning to make a difference to the world, The ability to initiate what we do...

Global partners in learning and human transformation... we need to sustain real and virtual relationships...

//Students learn what they care about, from people who they care about and who, they know, care about them - Barbara Harrell Carson//

//The future is not someplace we are going to, its one we are creating. the paths to it are made, not found, and the making of them changes both the destination and the maker - Phillip Adams.//

//"Students to argue a position and to understand another's in a way that develops sensitivity to other cultures. This perspective-taking is crucial to developing inter-cultural empathy and understanding. "//

Why restrict learning to one teacher, one community, one classroom when we can globally connect with others?

Creating CONNECTED learners.

Our role is to employ ICT tools to enable more powerful learning.

How can kids be excited about things if we are not excited about them?

The world is the children's classroom... Traditional artificial boundaries between primary, secondary and tertiary, we should all be working seamlessly on lifelong learning - thats' the goal.

Learning for the future Anywhere/anytime

Simultaneous inputs and interactions; multiple learning relationships and sources

inter-generational and inter-cultural "If young people were active engaged in all aspects of society and thought of themselves as leaders of the community and the future.

ICT supports key competencies such as risk taking and perseverance.

Learners driving their won learning

"The new learning: will be about creating a kind of person, with kinds of dispositions and orientation to the world, rather than simply commanding a body of knowledge."

__//**WHAT DO WE NEED TO BE? WHAT CAPABALITIES WILL WE NEED?**//__

Addicted to learning

Adaptive to a constantly shifting landscape.

Work with ambiguity and uncertainty

Designers of learning (co-created and negotiated, inter-generational)

Connectors and collaborators (building learning parternerships)

Failures (Occasional failures!!!) Learn from these, be a risk taker, have a go

Language masters and inquirers (No either or thinkers) NO BUT's!!! - the language of invitation, inquiry, inclusion, non-judgement. (Don't say "I will give you 5 minutes to reflect", say "Take 5 minutes to reflect" etc.etc. )

Give yourself license to innovate and think differently, be possibility thinkers, play!, entrepreneurs who activley seek

Story Makers - seekers of the 'grand narrative'. Encouragae play and possibility, use of metaphor and analogy, stories that help learners construct and live our narratives of their prefered futures.

True Believers - in yourself to grow yourself, your identities and your capabilities.

Wise - of mind, of heart, of soul

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