challenges for 21st century education and blended learning
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Challenges for21st century education and blended learning
Prof. dr. Frederik QuestierVrije Universiteit Brussel
Masterclass professionele ontwerpteamsAssociatie KU Leuven – 12/02/15
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Perspectives
➢ Society➢ Students➢ Teachers➢ Technologies
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How can we educate our students for
the unknown future?
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I ask my students:
What is the biggest changeyou expect in your (professional) life?
Most of them are clueless...
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The only constant in life is change
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The best wayto predict the future
is to invent it.(Alan Kay, 1971)
9William Gibson
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Information Society ?
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Knowledge Society
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Evolution of organizations
Source: Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, Virtual Teams http://www.netage.com/pub/books/VirtualTeams%202/CHAPTERS%20PDF/chapter02.pdf
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Network society
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Network society
Motivate your students to participatein existing authentic (online) networks!
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“On the Internet,nobodyknows
you're a dog”
Peter SteinerNew Yorker
2000
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In China:
“On the Internet,everybody
knowsyou're a dog”
This visionmight be closer
to today's Internet reality!
17 Transparency versus Privacy
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"The most fundamental way of helping other people,
is to teach peoplehow to do things better
or how to better their lives.
For peoplewho use computers,this means sharing
the recipesyou use on your computer,
in other wordsthe programs you run."
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1980's: Stallman defined“Free Software”
The freedom to
➢ use
➢ study
➢ distribute
➢ improve
the program
Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)
The FLOSS concepts of sharing and collaborating are touching everything
Good teachers know howto create learning materials
Great teachers know howto mix and reuse
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They will have tocompete with
amateurs!
An enthusiastic amateur beatsa bored professional
“Karl Marx was perhapsthe original prophet of the
Professional Amateurs economy:
labour– forced, unspontaneous
and waged work –would be superseded
by self-activity”
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They will have tocompete with
free!
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3D printing
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2045 Technological Singularity?
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Start of transhumanism?
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“Schools we have todaywere designed around commonsense assumptions
that had never been scientifically tested”
R. Keith Sawyer
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Innovation?
Politics Education Science 1km/h 10km/h 100km/h
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Resistance
Teachers teach as they are taught...
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information scarcity → information abundance !
Total information is now doubling every year !
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Surveys
How much of the knowledge
you need for your job
is in your own head?
>75% | 75-50% | 50-25% | 25-10%
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Surveys
How much of the knowledge
you need for your job
is in your own head?
1986 75% → 2010 10%
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The longer one studies,
the more one comes to realize
how much one does not know
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% tested genius in Divergent Thinking(used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions)
Source: Breakpoint and Beyond by George Land and Beth Jaman
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Dilemma of schools:the skills that are easiest to teach and tests are also
the ones that are easiest to digitize, automate and outsource(Levy and Murnane)
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Demand for new skills?
➢ Social skills➢ communicating, networking, teamwork➢ international, intercultural
➢ Creativity➢ Entrepeneurship➢ Information technology skills
➢ Handle information overload
➢ ...➢
➢ Learning to learn → Life Long Learning!
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Knowledge -> Skills -> Competences
Competences
are the ability to use➢ knowledge➢ skills➢ attitudes
in new, complex, authentic situations
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“ The digital native and digital immigrant may be useful slogans for provoking debate but the distinction does not stand up to inspection… the profound changes taking place need to be situated in diversity rather than dichotomy ”
Brown, M. E. (2005). The next generation: Looking to the future. Computers in New Zealand Schools, 17 (2), 3-7. July Editorial.
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How can we improve teaching and learning with ICT?
Don't apply traditional teaching methods
in new technologies!
Substitution?(dropping your coursebook online)
Transformation!
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Seek the synergy!
Theories about learning
and technologies
have evolved
towards very similar concepts
53CC by Wlonline
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Model Jonassen for (constructive) learning environments
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Find the right blend!
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Not all students will like it...
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Foster a community feeling!
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Learning Analytics
Gephi export,
learning interactions,
R. Carlos, F. Questier, C. Zhu
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Learn fromLearning Analytics!
➢ The Learning Analytics Cycle, by Doug Clow, http://dougclow.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-learning-analytics-cycle/
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Tin Cap API
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➢ An individual teacher typically does not have➢ the competences➢ the time➢ the budget
to create one of the most advanced blended courses
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The way to do it
Design teams with mixed competencesExtra muros collaboration
Reuse and shareStudent centred
ActivitatingMotivating
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Copyright acknowledgements➢ Screenshot http://www.chamilo.org/➢ Figure study CC-by-nc-sa by Tony2 (NOT IN USE!)➢ Question! CC-by by Stefan Baudy➢ http://users4.jabry.com/vortex/misc/DivergentThinking.gif➢ Edupunk: http://blogs.pstcc.edu/drbrown/files/2009/11/Picture-4.png➢ Flipped-Classroom-CC-BY-NC-SA-2-by-ransomtech➢ http://cogdogblog.com/2012/07/17/mooc-hysertia/➢ http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/08/21/25-tips-make-most-mooc/➢ Paul Schatzkin, http://www.cohesionarts.com/tag/distractions/
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