21c learning: emerging trends in edtech

The Future of Learning

Chisholm TAFE15th July, 2016

TUVALU

The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed. (William Gibson)

FRAMEWORK FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING (US)

CONTENT KNOWLEDGELEARNING ANDINNOVATION

INFORMATION, MEDIA, AND TECHNOLOGYLIFE AND CAREER SKILLS

21st Century skills project (Aust)

EMPLOYABILITY/21st CENTURY SKILLSEmployability Skills• Communication• Teamwork

• Problem solving

• Initiative and enterprise• Planning and organising• Self-management

• Learning• technology

21st Century Skills• Communication and collaboration

• Critical thinking and problem solving

• Financial, business, and entrepreneurial literacy

• Critical thinking• Info, media, and ICT literacies

}

}

(SOFT SKILLS)

WHERE DID THE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

COME FROM? WHY DO WE NEED TO

IDENTIFY 21ST CENTURY SKILLS?

more individualised employment

20161929

Courtesy of Greg Whitby

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS and the CHANGING LEARNING AGENDA• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology

GENERIC SKILLS – RECURRING THEMES

COLLABORATIONCRITICAL THINKINGPROBLEM SOLVINGCOMMUNICATION

Successful learnersConfident, creative individualsActive and informed citizens

CONTENT KNOWLEDGE AND 21C THEMES• Global awareness• Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy• Civic literacy• Health literacy• Environmental literacy

Employability Skill:INITIATIVE AND

ENTERPRISE

LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS

• Creativity and Innovation• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving• Communication and Collaboration

Employability Skills:COMMUNICATION

INITIATIVE AND ENTERPRISETEAMWORK

WICKED PROBLEMS

Global AwarenessEnvironmental Literacy

Creativity and Innovation

more individualised employment

20161929

INFORMATION, MEDIA, AND TECHNLOGY SKILLS

• Information Literacy • See also 21c Literacies Framework (US)

• Media Literacy• Think VIDEO! (YouTube, Facebook, etc)

• ICT Literacy

Employability Skills:TECHNOLOGY

LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS• Flexibility & Adaptability• Initiative & Self Direction• Social & Cross-Cultural Skills• Productivity & Accountability• Leadership & Responsibility

Employability Skills:INTITIATIVE AND

ENTERPRISECOMMUNICATION

NMC 2016 Technology Outlook (Australian Higher Ed)

LEARNING ANALYTICS

CC image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/irisheyes/8550041071

ADAPTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES

THE GOOD

• A sophisticated LMS will adapt to your preferences and begin to deliver content in ways that better match how you learn.

THE TO BE NOTED

ADAPTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES

“Google knows you better than you do.” “Google is turning you into the person it thinks you want to be.”

(For the record, so is Facebook.)

(2012)

LOCATION BASED INTELLIGENCE AND SERVICES

http://www.muzepoezie.nl/

COLLABORATION?CRITICAL THINKING?PROBLEM SOLVING?COMMUNICATION?

LOCATION BASED INTELLIGENCE AND SERVICES• Campus tours• Lesson materials delivered remotely• Tracking class attendance• Language learning

COLLABORATION?CRITICAL THINKING?PROBLEM SOLVING?COMMUNICATION?

MAKERSPACES

3D Printing

MAKERSPACES• Minecraft, Virtual Worlds• Incubators (peer to peer learning; problem-solving)

COLLABORATION?CRITICAL THINKING?PROBLEM SOLVING?COMMUNICATION?

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

UBERVEILLANCE

CC image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucdjoe/9303044876 getnarrative.com

Google Glass NarrativeOculus Rift

COLLABORATION?CRITICAL THINKING?PROBLEM SOLVING?COMMUNICATION?

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

QUANTIFIED SELF

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES

https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2015/november/stretchy-sensors-can-detect-deadly-gases-and-uv/

Microchips in humans? It’s no longer IF .....

DEVICES that can be implanted in the brain are being trialled to treat seizures, pain, psychiatric conditions and Parkinson's disease. New electrodes - half a millimetre thick - are being designed to insert into the brain, detect abnormal brain activity and deliver instant treatment.

NMC 2016 Technology Outlook (Australian Higher Ed)

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING• Affective computing is the idea that humans can program machines to

recognise, interpret, process and simulate the range of human emotions.

Can we teach the machine?

ROBOTS AS CARERS

Over the last 30 years people have increasingly being more open about the idea of having a robot as friend or carer.

ROBOTS AS SEXUAL COMPANIONS

ROBOTS AS TUTORS

• Good Vibes - an app to help autistic people in their interpersonal relationships

• Tega: a tool (robot) for instructors to assess student comprehension and attention in real time

COLLABORATION?CRITICAL THINKING?PROBLEM SOLVING?COMMUNICATION?

TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 years

http://www.vimeo.com/2341387

COLLABORATION?CRITICAL THINKING?PROBLEM SOLVING?COMMUNICATION?

NETWORKED OBJECTS - THE INTERNET OF THINGS(a network of things)

• Tracking objects/monitoring information – wildlife, consumables, health, inventory management

Ubi - http://theubi.com/http://www.liu.se/forskning/forskningsnyheter/1.428680?l=en

DIGITAL LITERACY?• Finland has declared that cursive handwriting

will no longer be a requirement from 2017.However:• “Scientists decided to conduct a second

experiment in which these students would be given a week to review for the exam. The participants would be tested on simple facts as well as concepts, inferences, and applications of the material. Even after a week of review, the students who took notes in longhand were found to do significantly better than the other students in the experiment, including the fleet typists

http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-using-pen-and-paper-not-laptops-boosts-memory-writing-notes-helps-recall-concepts-ability-268770

SAMR MODEL

Source: http://jennyluca.wikispaces.com/TPACK+and+SAMR Also see: Ruben Puentedura's (creator of SAMR) blog

SAMR MODEL

Source:

Putting content online

SAMR MODEL

Source:

Putting content online

Putting content online with supplementary audio

SAMR MODEL

Source:

Putting content online

Putting content online with supplementary audio

Discussion Forums

SAMR MODEL

Source:

Putting content online

Putting content online with supplementary audio

Discussion Forums

Have students create video resources

COLLABORATION?CRITICAL THINKING?PROBLEM SOLVING?COMMUNICATION?

However..... • Auditor’s comment:

“I suggest you steer away from collaborative assessment.”

THE PROBLEM:

"The dominant culture of education has come to focus not on teaching and learning, but testing...this...leads to a culture of compliance rather than creativity.“http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley.html

TEACHING AND ASSESSING

NAPLAN: “It’s not the test that counts but the teaching that is critical ... and good teachers know this.”

Greg Whitby

http://bluyonder.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/naplan-friend-foe-or-on-the-fence/

CONCLUSION?

THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES DOES NOT IPSO FACTO RESULT IN INCREASED:

• COLLABORATION• COMMUNICATION• CRITICAL THINKING• PROBLEM SOLVING

IT IS STILL THE JOB OF THE TEACHER TO CRAFT CHALLENGING TASKS AND ACTIVITIES THAT CAN TRANSFORM LEARNING.

IT TAKES TIME AND IT TAKES HARD THINKING.

LET TECHNOLOGY DRIVE SOMETIMES!

MINDFUL USE OF TECHNOLOGY

• Net Smart - how to use Internet technology intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.

• INFOTENTION – surf with purpose; know why you’re there; have a goal!

ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGIES

technologies transform the minds and culture of their users

CC image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/librariesrock/6784435650/

IF WE CAN DO IT WE WILL.

CC image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/324536244

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ALWAYS LAGS BEHIND

• VCRs, Internet, mobile phones, ipads were not invented with education in mind but they have become commonplace tools in educational delivery.

• Education co-opts popular technologies for its own use.• Robots, wearable technology, augmented reality WILL be part of educational delivery of the future – it’s up to you to show us HOW.

Contact details: michaelcATchariot.net.au