nsw ict educators - keynote 2017

Cameron PatersonE: cpaterson@shore.nsw.edu.auT: cpaterso

Educating For The Unknown

Image: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind

Mindfulness is… “the power tool that all the other literacies depend upon”

(Howard Rheingold, Net Smart)

At School (in the year 2000) by Jean Marc Cote, 1899

Isolation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_acvfJQO0

“The future of schools lies in networks rather than hierarchies, in lateral rather than vertical organisations. Networks cannot be managed the same way that hierarchies are managed. Social networking is a different way of organising.” (Professor Richard Elmore)

Explicitly teaching people to work in teams

“The knowledge-based, twenty-first-century organization depends on cross-disciplinary collaboration, flattened hierarchies, and continuous innovation”

Amy Edmondson

The Race

• 400-600 miles, non-stop Primal Quest Adventure Race

• Multi-disciplinary, expert teams • Unknown terrain, multiple routes• Challenges: mental and physical exhaustion,

navigational errors, injury• 75-95 teams each year• 55% of teams do not finish• Avg age=37, Avg exp=5.5 yrs• $250,000 purse

Map of Race

Day 1-2

Day 4-5

2004 Race Overview

50%

70% Conditional Claims

Assertive Claims

TeamPerformance

HighLow

30%

How do claims of knowing vary across teams?

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“Workers learn more in the coffee room than in the classroom. They discover how to do their jobs through informal learning: talking, observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know.” (Jay Cross)

Become more intentional about informal learning

“The successful organization of the future will have two organizational structures: a Hierarchy, and a more teaming, egalitarian, and adaptive Network” (Kotter, 2014).

Design for flexibility and responsiveness

Foster diverse connections

Map of Knowledge from Los Alamos National Lab

Devolve decision making

Jelmer Evers, Changing Education From the Ground Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Pp_keHKdY

Embrace complexity

Craft a narrative

The Speech that Made Obama President: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPwDe22CoY

“There is clear consensus that the future now emerging will be extremely different from anything

we have ever known in the past. It is a difference, not of degree, but of kind.”

Supporting educators to collaboratively design and implement powerful practices to lift learning outcomes for high potential learners.

“Learned helplessness in the face of this dysfunction is the disease of a dying institution.”

(Richard Elmore)

Two Blind Men Crossing a Log Bridge

A Zen ink painting from Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)

The Martian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8