Quotes for 21St Century Teaching and Learning Video

Quotes for 21st Century Teaching and Learning Video

During our 2-Day Teaching the iGeneration Workshop, you’ll be creating a short video that pushes your peers to think differently about the changing nature of teaching and learning in the 21st Century. The following quotes—drawn from the Great Quotes about Learning and Change Flickr Group () might make good content for your video.

“We may be looking at the end of education, but it might well be the dawn of learning.”
Stephen Heppell / In the 21st Century, it is not enough to leave no child behind. We need to help every child to get ahead.
Barack Obama
We shape our tools and afterwards, our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan / Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines.
The 2009 Horizon Report
We’re addicted to our friends, not our computers.
danah boyd / It is not information overload. It is filter failure.
Clay Shirky
The real problem is not adding technology to the current organization of the classroom, but changing the culture of teaching and learning
Alan November / How can we begin to move past an educational model that is tethered to time and place and move closer to learning that is immersive, mobile, collaborative, and social?
Educase
The longer we keep up the façade that school is the primary place of learning, the sooner we’ll become irrelevant.
Dean Shareski / If you’re comfortable with education today, you’re not paying attention.
Will Richardson
Sustainable change starts with thinking at the edges of the box. It’s about evolution, not revolution.
Bill Ferriter / When the students of tomorrow sit in the classrooms of yesterday, it is our teachers who are failing.
Bill Ferriter
How many decisions did you make yesterday that reinforced the status quo?
Scott McLeod / Technology will never replace teachers. However, teachers who know how to use technology effectively to help their students to connect and to collaborate together online will replace those who don’t.
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
The 21st Century is here. (Isn’t it time we started preparing our students for it?)
Scott McLeod / There’s nothing magical about any tech tool. Real magic rests in the hearts and minds of teachers using digital tools to introduce students to new individuals, ideas and opportunities.
Bill Ferriter
It isn’t that they can’t pay attention. They just choose not to.
Marc Prensky / The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.
Alvin Toeffler
While there is nothing wrong with your students knowing more about technology than you do, not caring about what they know means you may already be irrelevant.
Joe Bower / Technology doesn’t improve education, it changes it. Teachers improve education.
Michael Trump
In today’s world, it’s no longer how much you know that matters; it’s what you can do with what you know.
Tony Wagner / Our nation’s public schools are not contributing significantly to this country’s capacity for creativity, imagination, and innovation.
Tony Wagner
Schools haven’t changed; the world has. And so our schools are not failing. Rather, they are obsolete.
Tony Wagner / People have to understand the importance of working fluidly and across boundaries.
Annmarie Neal
I can guarantee that the job I hire someone to do will change or may not exist in the future, so this is why adaptability and learning skills are more important than technical skills.
Clay Parker / What the teacher does is the means by which the students learn—not the end.
Tony Wagner
Students with more than 20 absences per year have less than a one in five chance of graduating from high school.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn

Statistics for21st Century Teaching and Learning Video

During our 2-Day Teaching the iGeneration Workshop, you’ll be creating a short video that pushes your peers to think differently about the changing nature of teaching and learning in the 21st Century. The following statistics—drawn from several sources—might make good content for your video.

24 hours of new content is uploaded to YouTube every minute.
Digital Buzz Blog, 2010 / It took ABC, NBC and CBS 60 years to create the same amount of content that YouTube users create in 60 days.
Digital Buzz Blog, 2010
YouTube gets 2 billion page views every single day. That’s twice the daily views of ABC, NBC and CBS combined.
Digital Buzz Blog, 2010 / 6 million Americans watch videos on their cell phones each month
Steele, 2008
65% of American households own game systems.
GRABstats, 2008 / The average gamer is 35 years old and has been playing video games for 13 years.
GRABstats, 2008
63% of all parents believe that video games play a positive role in the lives of their children.
GRABstats, 2008 / 50% of all Internet users share pictures on the web.
eMarketer, 2009
80 million pictures are uploaded by internet users every single month.
eMarketer, 2009 / By the time they reach their 20s, the average child will have spent over 20,000 hours on the Internet.
Tapscott, 2009
76% of today’s teens instant message for 80 minutes per day.
Lenhart, Madden, Smith, and Macgill, 2007 / 73% of today’s teens have profiles on social networking services.
Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010
93% of teens between the ages of 12 and 17 have access to the Internet.
Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010 / 75% of teens between the ages of 12 and 17 have a cell phone—including 59% of teens living in families that make less than $30,000 per year.
Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010
The typical teen sends 50 text messages per day.
Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010 / 75% of teen cell phone owners have unlimited text plans.
Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010
75% of teen cell phone owners report texting their friends several times per day.
Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010 / 26% of teen cell phone owners have been the victims of cyberbullying. 15% have received a sext message.
Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010
62% of teens are allowed to have a cell phone in school, but not in class. 24% attend schools that forbid cell phones at all times.
Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010 / 31% of teens who take their phones to school send text messages during class every day.
Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010
A child from a family earning less than $35,000 a year has a one in seventeen chance of earning a bachelor’s degree by the age of 24.
Brooks, 2005; DuFour and Marzano, 2011 / The United States has fallen from first to eighteenth in international rankings of high school graduation rates in the past 10 years.
OECD, 2010
The proportion of young adults with college degrees in the United States is lower than the average proportion of students with college degrees in other developed nations.
OECD, 2010 / America has the second highest college dropout rate among the 27 member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
National Governor’s Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008
American students struggle compared to their international peers on standardized tests regardless of subject.
National Governor’s Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008 / On the most recent PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) tests, American 15 yr. olds ranked twenty-fifth (out of thirty participating countries) in mathematics performance.
National Governor’s Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008
American 15 yr. olds ranked twenty-first (out of thirty participating countries) in science performance.
National Governor’s Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008 / American 15 yr. olds ranked fifteenth (out of thirty participating countries) in reading performance.
National Governor’s Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008
American 15 yr. olds ranked twenty-fourth (out of thirty participating countries) in problem solving performance.
National Governor’s Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008 / One out of every three American high school graduates will require remedial instruction at the college level in order to succeed.
Strong American Schools, 2008
Fully half of the 15 million jobs projected to be created between 2008 and 2018 will require a college degree.
Bureau of Labor and Statistics, 2009 / 3 out of every 10 students in the American public schools will fail to finish high school with a diploma.
Swanson, 2009
1.3 million students drop out of high school every year. That’s 7,150 students per day.
Swanson, 2009 / 1 student drops out of high school every twenty five seconds.
Swanson, 2009
College graduates live—on average—10 years longer than students who drop out of school at the age of 16.
Kolta, 2007 / Students who drop out of high school are 5-8 times more likely to be incarcerated than their peers who graduate from college.
McKinsey and Company, 2009
High school dropouts earn thirty-six cents for every dollar a college graduate earns.
United States Census, 2009 / Manufacturing jobs—once sources of employment for high school graduates—account for only 17 percent of the jobs in America today, a number that is predicted to fall to 12.9 percent of the jobs in America in 2018.
Bureau of Labor and Statistics, 2009
About one in five 15-year-olds in OECD Countries can be considered a reflective, communicative problem solver.
OECD, 2004 / 88 percent of voters believe that 21st century skills can and should be a part of the curriculum.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2008
62 percent of school districts report increasing time for English language arts and/or math since NCLB was enacted in 2001.
Center on Education Policy, 2007. / 44 percent of school districts report decreasing time for other subjects and/or activities—social studies, science, art, music, physical education—since NCLB was enacted in 2011.
Center on Education Policy, 2007.
84 percent of school districts report that they have changed their curriculum to put a greater emphasis on tested content since NCLB was enacted in 2001.
Center on Education Policy, 2007. / 70 percent of college teachers say that students do not comprehend complex reading materials.
Achieve, 2005.
66 percent of college teachers say that students cannot think analytically.
Achieve, 2005. / 55 percent of college teachers say students can’t apply what they’ve learned to solve problems.
Achieve, 2005.
Only 34 percent of eighth graders demonstrated “solid” or “superior” reading abilities on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress .
Lee, J., Grigg, W.S., & Donahue, P.L., 2007. / Only 20 percent of 17 year-olds report reading for fun daily, and that 15-24 year-olds spend just under 9 minutes a day reading for any reason
Hess, 2008.