Bob Harrison

Support for Education and Training

BobharrisonSET@aol.com / www.setuk.co.uk

Context Learning

Learners Leeds City College

Learners of the future

Teachers of the future…?

The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change

The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Authors: Christine Redecker, Miriam Leis, Matthijs Leendertse, Yves Punie, Govert Gijsbers, Paul Kirschner, Slavi Stoyanov and Bert Hoogveld

Are the New Millennium Learners Making the Grade?

Are the New Millennium Learners Making the Grade? Technology use and Educational performance in Pisa Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

Human-Computer Interaction in 2020

Being Human – Human – Computer interaction in the Year 2020 Edited by Richard Harper, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers and Abigail Sellen Published by Microsoft

Equipping Every Learner for the 21st Century

Equipping Every Learner for the 21st Century

The Future of Thinking

The Future of Thinking Learning Institutions in a Digital Age Cathy N. Davidson and David Thea Goldberg with the assistance of Zoe Marie Jones

The Learning Society

The Learning Society

The Digital World Of Young Children: Impact on Emergent Literacy

The Digital World Of Young Children: Impact on Emergent Literacy Jay Blanchard | Terry Moore Arizona State University College of Teacher Education and Leadership

Learning Theories of learning and teaching

How do they relate to educational technologies?

What it takes to learn

John Dewey

Jean Piaget

Lev Vygotsky

Jerome Bruner

Paulo Freire

Gordon Pask

Terry Winograd

Seymour Papert

Lauren Resnick

John Seely Brown

Ference Marton

Roger Säljö

John Biggs

Jean Lave

Inquiry-based education

Constructivism

Mediated learning

Discovery learning

Learning as problematization

Learning as conversation

Problem-based learning

Reflective practice

Meta-cognition

Experiential learning

Learner-oriented approach

Social constructivism

Situated learning

share a

common

conception

of the learning

process

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1980

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2000

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There is a common thread in our

understanding of learning

- the learner is an active agent in

the learning process

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What it takes to learn does not change

Inquiry-based learning

Constructivism

Mediated learning

Discovery learning

Learning as conversation

Problem-based learning

Reflective practice

Meta-cognition

Experiential learning

Learner-oriented approach

Social constructivism

Situated learning

Books, Blackboards, Slides

Broadcasts, Overhead projectors

Tape-slides

Interactive whiteboards, Powerpoint

Web-pages, Podcasts

Modelling tools

Simulations

Chat-rooms

Online conferences

Multiplayer games

Wikis

Blogs

Learning through attention

Learning

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1958

2004

2010

2012

Learning

1908

1958

2010

2012

Common classroom activities

52%

29%

25%

22%

22%

17%

16%

16%

10%

10%

9%

8%

7%

7%

4%

3%

Copy from the board or a book

Listen to a teacher talking for a long time

Have a class discussion

Take notes while my teacher talks

Work in small groups to solve a problem

Have a drink of water when I need it

Work on a computer

Listen to background music

Have some activities that allow me to move around

Create pictures or maps to help me remember

Have a change of activity to help focus

Q

Which three of the following do you do most often in class?

Spend time thinking quietly on my own

Talk about my work with a teacher

Learn things that relate to the real world

Teach my classmates about something

Base: All pupils (2,417) Source: Ipsos MORI

Have people from outside to help me learn

Learn outside in my school’s grounds

33%

Most preferred ways to learn

55%

39%

35%

31%

21%

19%

16%

14%

12%

9%

9%

8%

5%

6%

3%

1%

In groups

By doing practical things

With friends

By using computers

Alone

From friends

With your parents

By practising

By copying

By thinking for yourself

Other

From others

In which three of the following ways do you prefer to learn?

From teachers

By seeing things done

In silence

At a museum or library

Base: All pupils (2,417) Source: Ipsos MORI

Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies-Top Tools for Learners 2011.

1. Twitter

2. YouTube

3. Google Docs

4. Skype

5. Wordpress

6. Dropbox

7. Prezi

8. Moodle

9. Slideshare

10.Glogster

11.Wikipedia

12.Facebook

13.Google Search

Learning - iTunes U

Preston College & iTunes

“One of the clinical definitions of

insanity is doing the same thing

over and over again and expecting

to get a different result.”

John Abbott

BSF

It’s not about the technology ….

… it’s about new thinking.

Almost all the barriers are in our heads.

The only barriers are in our heads!