David Warlick
Our Students * Our
Worlds
For decades,
education has been an easy institution to define. It
consisted of a set of acknowledged literacy skills, a definable
body of knowledge and the pedagogies for teaching those skills
to willing students within information-scarce learning
environments. Today, for the first time in decades, we are
facing the challenge of questioning our notions about teaching
and learning to adapt to a world that is changing faster than
our ability to react. We are struggling to rethink what it
is to be educated, to reinvent where it happens and redefine our
roles as the difference between teacher and student start to
blur.
This presentation,
by 30+ year educator, author and technologist, David Warlick,
will explore some of these changes and challenges and arrange
them as a set of converging conditions that might actually hold
the clues for redefining and retooling 21st Century education.
Biography
David Warlick, a 30
year educator, has been a classroom teacher, district
administrator and staff consultant with the North Carolina State
department of Public Instruction. for the past 10 years,
Mr. Warlick has operated The Landmark Project, a consulting, and
innovations firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. His website,
Landmarks for Schools, serves more than a half-million visits a
day with some of the most popular teacher tools available on the
Net. David is also the author of three books on
instructional technology and 21st century literacy and has
spoken to audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia
and South America. What makes David Warlick a highly
effective and sought-after speaker is that, at heart, he is a
teacher with a contagious passion and enthusiasm for helping
people discover a brand new world of teaching and learning.
