future focused education - what does it look like?
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CORE Breakfast presentation to Hamilton educators.TRANSCRIPT
CORE Breakfast presentation, Thursday 11 September, Hamilton
Future Focused Education:
What does it look like in your school?
THE DIGITAL LEARNER
• 2001 – iPod released • 2002 – NCEA introduced • 2010 – iPad released • 2013 – NCEA level 1
(includes programming)
• 1989 – Concept floated for WWW
• 1989 – Tomorrow’s Schools • 1993 - First browser
released • 1995 – WWW comes to NZ
BORN 1997
CHALLENGE
Have we grasped how significantly student access to technology is changing their expectations as learners?
320,000
330,000
340,000
350,000
360,000
370,000
380,000
390,000
2011
2016
2021
2026
2031
2036
2041
2046
2051
2056
2061
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13-18 years
PROJECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL POPULATION
Need to be vigilant about this space
Statistics New Zealand National Population Projections by Age and Sex, 2011(base)-2061
-20,000
-10,000
0
10,000
20,000
30,000 20
11-2
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2016
-202
1
2021
-202
6
2026
-203
1
2031
-203
6
2036
-204
1
1041
-204
6
2046
-205
1
2051
-205
6
2056
-206
1
Projected change in numbers at 15-19 years (Total NZ)
NZ: 28,000 FEWER SCHOOL LEAVERS OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS
Source: Statistics NZ 2012 Projected population of New Zealand by age and sex, 2011(base)-2061
325,119
369,090
353,091
300,000 310,000 320,000 330,000 340,000 350,000 360,000 370,000 380,000
2001 2006 2013
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Actual Numbers 13-18 Years 2001, 2006, 2013 (Total NZ)
IT IS HAPPENING – CENSUS 2013
Source: Statistics NZ 2012 Projected population of New Zealand by age and sex, 2011(base)-2061
32,901
36,369
34,899
31,000
32,000
33,000
34,000
35,000
36,000
37,000
2001 2006 2013
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Actual Numbers 13-18 Years 2001, 2006, 2013 (Waikato)
.. HAPPENING IN THE WAIKATO
11,307
12,588 12,753
10,500
11,000
11,500
12,000
12,500
13,000
2001 2006 2013
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Actual N 13-18 Years 2001, 2006, 2013 (Hamilton City)
BUT - HAMILTON CITY ONE OF FEW TO BUCK THE TREND
SUMMARY
• Every year for the next 19 years a successively larger cohort will reach the retirement zone
• Every year for the next 15 years they will be replaced by a successively smaller cohort
• 2021-26 will see a brief respite, as the recently-born baby blip arrives at labour market age
• A zero unemployment opportunity is here
http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367
The surprising jobs you’ll be doing by the 2030s
• Robot counsellor • Rewilder • Garbage designer • Neighbourhood watch specialist • Simplicity expert • Healthcare navigator • Nostalgist • Telesurgeon • Solar technology specialist • Aquaponic fish farmer
http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367
FUTURE FOCUSED – WHICH FUTURE?
Picture from a reading book for the primary school (8 year olds) in Sweden, 1903
WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?
How can schooling change to meet meet the opportunities and challenges of the
21st century?
WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?
How can we prepare students to address "future-focused" issues such as
sustainability, globalisation, citizenship, and enterprise?
WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?
How can education prepare students for living in the 21st century?
TWO PERSPECTIVES OF EDUCATION…
• How will learning occur?
• What about the role of teachers?
• What sorts of environments?
• What will we learn about?
• What will we learn with?
• What skills/knowledge/ competencies do we need to be developing now in order to cope with what the future might hold?
In the future For the future
EDUCATION IN THE FUTURE…
• How will learning occur? • What about the role of teachers? • What sorts of environments? • What will we learn about? • What will we learn with?
http://ingvihrannar.com/14-things-that-are-obsolete-in-21st-century-schools/
1. Computer rooms
2. Isolated classrooms
3. Schools that don’t have WiFi
4. Banning phones and tablets
5. Tech director with an admin access
6. Teachers that don’t share what they do
7. Schools that don’t have Facebook or Twitter
8. Unhealthy cafeteria food
9. Starting school at 8am for teenagers
10. Buying poster, website and pamphlet design for school
11. Traditional libraries
12. All students get the same
13. One-PD-workshop-fits-all
14. Standardized tests to measure the quality of education
REPLIES
WHERE WILL THEY LEARN?
Students in physical school, instruction and
assessment predominantly on-
site
Students access formal learning via
the network, instruction and
assessment provided online
Students learning through their
online personal learning network,
incl. social networking
environments
Students at home, library or other space, pursuing
own interests individually or collaboratively
FORMAL
INFORMAL
PHYSICAL
VIRTUAL
e.g. Classrooms, field trips, music
exams, sports awards etc.
e.g. Virtual Learning Network, online classrooms, Coursera, virtual
field trips etc.
e.g. PLN comprising
Facebook, Twitter, Khan Academy,
YouTube etc.
e.g. Community library, sports
organisations, after school clubs etc.
ASB BUILDING
ASB BUILDING
ASB BUILDING
ASB BUILDING
ASB BUILDING
UNPACK
If this is the kind of work environment our young people will be functioning in when they leave school, how well effectively we preparing them for this in the environments we have in our schools?
WHAT WILL THEY LEARN?
FUTURE FOCUS THEMES
• Sustainability • Enterprise • Globalization • Citizenship
THINKING 3D
• kjb
http://bit.ly/1tKP5Lm
HOW WILL THEY LEARN?
FOUR FORMS BEHIND THE ORGANISATION AND EVOLUTION OF ALL SOCIETIES - TMIN
History 7000 BC 3000 AD
David Ronfeldt TIMN (Tribal, Institutional, Market, Network)
• Open • Distributed • Scalable • Social • Generative • Networked • Self-organised • Adaptive • Global
An education system that fails to emulate the characteristics of information in an era of knowledge is doomed to fail. Information today is…
George Siemens: Connectivism – a theory of learning for the networked age http://www.connectivism.ca/
School A
Groups
TWO FORMS OF NETWORK
Network PLN
Federally organised Collections of entities Collaborative Heterarchical Networked knowledge
Externally organised Single entity Competitive Hierarchical Knowledge transfer
Personally organised Association of entities Connected Heutagogy Personal knowledge
The way networks learn is the way individuals learn
EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE…
What skills/knowledge/ competencies do we need to be developing now in order to cope with what the future might hold?
THE FUTURE…
• Food supply • Water • Cryogenics • Nano-technology
• Cultural assimilation
• Human rights
• Poverty
• Religious intolerance
FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Personalising learning – how can you build the school curriculum around the learner and more flexibly to meet learners’ needs?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29063614
FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Are you building an inclusive learning environment - how do you: • enage learners, family/whānau, and communities in co-shaping education to address students’ needs, strengths, interests and aspirations?
• provide access to anywhere, anytime learning?
• support assessment and evaluation processes so that these are dynamic and responsive to information about students?
FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Are you developing a school curriculum that uses knowledge to develop learning capacity – how can you enable students to create and use new knowledge to solve problems and find solutions to challenges as they arise on a “just-in-time” basis?
FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Rethinking learners’ and create a “knowledge-building” learning environment where learners and teachers work together?
FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Building a culture of continuous learning for teachers and school leaders – what opportunities to participate in and build professional learning are afforded by technologies?
FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• How can technologies be used to facilitate all of this?
Modern technologies provide students with
the potential for experiences of unprecedented breadth, depth and relevance.
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We now have the conditions for
modern learners to tackle projects of
a complexity previously
unimaginable.
..as a result we must
rethink what we expect of our students.
We must stop
underestimating what they are now capable of;
and above all…set much
higher expectations
.
The evolving learning environment…
14TH- 19TH CENTURY
PRINT ERA
Authors/Publishers Books, Documents
21ST CENTURY
COLLABORATIVE AGE Community Generated Experiences
Mixed Media, Social Networks, Virtual Environments
20TH CENTURY
BROADCAST ERA
Vendor Produced Content
Film, Radio, TV, Video, Web Pages
Forget blogs – think open dialogues
Forget wikis – think collaboration
Forget podcasts – think
democratisation of voice
Forget RSS/aggregation - think personal learning networks
Derek Wenmoth Email: [email protected]
Blog: http://blog.core-ed.org/derek Skype: <dwenmoth>