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.