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Lee Watanabe-Crockett

Lee Watanabe-Crockett is an optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together through connection and compassion.

Lee works with governments, education systems, international agencies and corporations to help people and organisations connect to their highest purpose and realise their wish for the future.

Lee believes in creating balance in the reality of a digital present and future. As such, living in Japan, he studies Buddhism as a member of Tao Sangha Wada Ji Temple, as well as Aikido, and the Shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute.

Joyful curiosity is the foundation of his approach to creating vital learning environments for groups around the world through the two organisations he has founded, the Global Digital Citizen Foundation, and Wabisabi Learning.

His several best-selling books including Growing Global Digital Citizens, Mindful Assessment and Future-Focused Learning, have garnered many awards and are used in schools and universities around the world.

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Understanding the Digital Generation: The New Connections

This eye-opening presentation provides a comprehensive look at how the pervasive nature of digital culture has and continues to change the brains of our students. As a result of these changes, they have developed learning styles and preferences which today are in contrast to the traditional pedagogical approach.

Understanding the Digital generation: The New Connections provides a clear description of 10 core learning attributes of digital learners, and a pragmatic look at how we can teach effectively in an age when new technologies cascade onto the new digital landscape at an astonishing rate. This presentation is based on the book Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape.

The Age of Disruptive Innovation

In today's digital world, we are witnessing the evolution of an incredible and turbulent new age. It's the age of disruptive innovation-an age where every part of society is experiencing a complete upheaval due to the chronic and pervasive nature of change. Our schools, like our businesses, must constantly adapt to such conditions to remain active in the market.

The Age of Disruptive Innovation examines how each new innovation disrupts and reshuffles, even replaces an entire market segment. It also looks at the changing nature of the workforce and the rise of the creative class. It identifies the critical 21st-century skills that are not being addressed by our current educational model, and outlines how we can effectively engage learners so that they can perform exceptionally well on exams, while simultaneously learning the critical 21st-century fluencies needed to excel in both school and life.

This presentation, based on the book, Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow provides a sense of how education can come to realize the long-term benefits of adapting to our current state of societal progress, and how our students will ultimately benefit.

Global Digital Citizenship

Carl Sagan once said that our society is deserving of citizens with an acute awareness of how their world works, and that is more necessary than ever in today's interconnected world. The Internet's wealth of data and information and the rise of social media have given us online environments that can be exciting and entertaining, but also unpredictable and sometimes even dangerous. As such, today's digital citizen must be guided by the principles of leadership, accountability, fiscal and personal responsibility, environmental awareness, and global citizenship.

In Global Digital Citizenship, we take an in-depth look at the model citizen in the age of social networking. You'll learn what the defining characteristics of the digital citizen are, the 6 primary tenets of effective digital citizenship, and how students can develop a code of ethics that will help them learn mindsets of conscientious and responsible behaviour, and ensure their safety and security in the online world.

Literacy is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age

Powerful technologies and information systems have caused facts to become obsolete faster, and knowledge built on these facts to become less durable. The sea of information we have access to today is breaking down the boundaries between conventional disciplines, altering the very fabric of our society, and affecting the way we work, play, communicate, view our fellow citizens, how we learn, and what's important for us to know. Yet schools in their structure, operation, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment models remain largely the same as they have for decades.

In Literacy is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age, you'll learn why it's important that students develop essential 21st Century Fluency skills to operate in the new living, working, and learning environments of today. More importantly, you'll learn how these skills can be taught in a structured manner at every grade level and in every subject area, and be the responsibility of every teacher throughout the entire school experience. This is Lee's most requested keynote and workshop and is based on the bestselling book Literacy is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age.

Books

Future-Focused Learning: Ten Essential Shifts of Everyday Practice

Future-Focused Learning: Ten Essential Shifts of Everyday Practice

When educators embrace student-centered learning, classrooms transform, authentic learning comes alive, and outcomes improve. A culmination of Lee Watanabe-Crockett's ten-plus years of work with schools around the world, Future-Focused Learning details ten core shifts of practice--along with simple microshifts--you can use with your students immediately, regardless of your core curriculum or instructional pedagogy. These proven shifts offer a clear pathway for taking the great work you are already doing and making it exceptional.

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Growing Global Digital Citizens: Better Practices That Build Better Learners

Growing Global Digital Citizens: Better Practices That Build Better Learners

This practical guide explores how to transform education through the concept of global digital citizenship (GDC). Embraced by thousands of schools, global digital citizenship practices empower students to effectively and ethically participate in and contribute to the digital world around them. The authors provide a clear path for establishing a global digital citizenship program in your school and give guidance on how K 12 teachers and administrators can grow global citizens who are respectful and responsible critical thinkers equipped with the 21st century skills necessary for an interconnected world.

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Mindful Assessment: The 6 Essential Fluencies of Innovative Learning

Mindful Assessment: The 6 Essential Fluencies of Innovative Learning

It is time to rethink the relationship between teaching and learning and assess the crucial skills students need to succeed in the 21st century. The authors assert that educators must focus assessment on mindfulness and feedback for improvement, framing assessment around six fluencies students need to cultivate. The book provides scenarios, lessons, activities, and assessment rubrics.

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The Digital Diet: Today's Digital Tools in Small Bytes

The Digital Diet: Today's Digital Tools in Small Bytes

This concise diet of digital tools helps beginning and experienced users investigate a variety of tools at an individual pace and incorporate them into today's classroom to foster productive learning.

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Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow

Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow

Today's world is constantly on the move. You think your eyes are showing you reality, when they are in fact showing you history. Living on the Future Edge takes a pragmatic look at the realities of today's digital landscape. It provides a detailed account of the global exponential trends that are vital to understanding our increasingly digital lives and offers both an exciting glimpse into the future and a compelling resource for educators wishing to understand more about the bold technological world that characterizes today's students.

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Literacy Is NOT Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age

Literacy Is NOT Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age

The authors present an effective framework for integrating comprehensive literacy or fluency into the traditional curriculum to prepare students for a technology-driven and global culture.

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Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape

Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape

Today's world is different for our children. The technologies we take for granted or simply don't understand have become a part of our children's identities. This digital bombardment is shaping who they are and who they will become. We must realize they live in a different world, and speak a different language. This book and its subsequent DVD explore the characteristics of the new digital generation, and how education can be modified to enhance their learning experiences while supporting both traditional literacy and essential new 21st Century Fluencies. You'll see how the digital generation thinks, learns, views the world and interacts as we follow them through this vast digital landscape. If we want to take part in nurturing those who will be the architects of our future it's up to us to learn their language and step into their world, so that we may truly understand the digital generation.

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