• The Upper Limit Hypothesis
• The 2nd Paradigm
• School 2.0
• "Nouvelle Compréhension"
• Competencies
  Consequences
• Global Curriculum 1
• Global Curriculum 2
• Global Curriculum 3
• Knowing & Understanding 1
• Nodal Networks
• Newspaper Article
• The Perfect Storm
• The 3 Transitions
• The Jeremy Syndrome
• School Sux
• Constructivism
• Knowing & Understanding 2
• Changing Competencies
• Ethics of Knowledge
• It's the Question that Matters
• Learning Communities
• Collaboration Environments
• Inquiry Learning
• Web-Folios
• Web-Folios 2
• Research
• The Menu: Introduction
• The Menu: Purpose
• The Menu: Wine List
• The Menu: Entree
• The Menu: Main Course
• The Menu: Dessert
• The Menu: Cheese
• The Menu: Guest List
• The Menu: Mint
• Perfect Storm 1
• Perfect Storm 2
• Perfect Storm 3

 

The Three Transitions follow on from the result of the Perfect [Education] Storm

• Transition one: The move away from a focus on knowing information to one of identifying foundational knowledge and providing students with the capacity for lifelong learning.

  Knowing information no longer is as prestigious as it used to be as almost anyone can know anything, within reason, very quickly. In order to prepare our young people for the 21st century a balance of Just in Case [JIT] foundational knowledge and Just in Time [JIT] skills and processes which will allow them to access information and process it into understanding independently and interdependently, is required. These two skills sets combine to provide students in the capability for lifelong learning.

• Transition two: the Internet will be the primary medium which will allow A3.

  Increasingly there is an expectation that services are available to Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime; commonly referred to as A3 Increasingly the Internet protocols and the way in which the Internet moves information around the globe are going to become the prime tools for working with and sharing information and knowledge as well as for communicating with each other.

• Transition three: Knowledge NET's (http://www.knowledge-networks.co.nz) will become the dominant teaching, learning and reporting environment within which teachers, students and parents/caregivers will work and communicate with each other.

  There will be a significant move away from filed based intranets for internal and external management of student and teacher resources into a Knowledge NET environment. A Knowledge NET is externally hosted, web based software, which allows teachers, students and parents/caregivers to work in a web environment accessing, recording, creating and demonstrating knowledge and understanding 24 hours a day 7 days a week from ant internet enabled computer anywhere. Contributing to the development of the Knowledge NET revolution are Digital Learning Objects (DLO's). Digital learning objects can vary from a photo, an animation, a bank of questions through to an entire unit or course of work. Digital leading object libraries are available in on the Internet and there are now substantial numbers of these available and you can find in a list of some of these (4 million!) Digital learning Objects via the list at http://www.teachers.work.co.nz/archive_Mayl_2004.htm .

  Knowledge NET's provide each student with their own WYSIWYG intranet complete with communication tools, e-portfolios (including online reflective blogs), a library of relevant reviewed web resources, a reference library of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, thesaurus, newspapers, timetable, . . . . . as well as providing teachers with a suite of management tools, professional development portfolio subject/class environment chat rooms . . . .