adaptive learning pedagogies and big data

Are you ready for the future?

Education is at a crossroads … Web 2.0

ubiquitous connectivity … new literacies … more data … Web 3.0 ...

more management ...more digital ... more reflection?

Unprecedented age in education?Age of distraction, Age of personalisation

Age of overwhelming data, Age of need for discerning choices

What kind of society are we living in?

Architecture of search engines offer a plethora of knowledge within tenths of milliseconds

In 2012 more than $1 billion in venture capital was poured into education

How does that make you feel?

Data speaks

Cell phones, GPS tracking, web clicks, Twitter - all collect data passively

Collecting and Sorting Information on Massive Scale

Using algorithms to predict trends

How might algorithms predict trends in education?

Professional Social Clubs? Building connections

through data

Your Data is the commerce of the future30 percent of sales due to recommendation engine

Data is so big, it is messy

Data correlations

Do you feel that process whilst overwhelming is also liberating?

Our mindset is shifting

How do you feel without access to your phone, wifi or ability to digitally connect?

The age of hyper-connectivity - altering the way we think?

The illiterate of the 21 Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

Alvin Toffler in Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

AgileCreativeDynamic

CollaborativeThere has been a

powershift

Think

Teaching as managing data Actively teaching how to research so students don’t get distracted or lost ....

Are your students discerning? Are your colleagues

discerning in their searches?

Are teachers and students talking about ‘sorting’ techniques on the Internet?

Are you discussing the art of digital curation?

Sorting

My Itunes Playlist

Who follows what other people listen to?

DJ / radio presenter of music to the world?

Democratisation of information, intellectual

and creative property

Following the Process of Data Production

Who has studied what?

Whose study playlist are you following?

What list have they already been working through?

From the data, how many people are stuck on the same question as you?

What information are they sharing?

How is the teacher managing the playlists, heat maps and work pace?

What does this say for the way that we will assess in the future?

Determined by a daily algorithm

What is ‘Adaptive Learning’?

Instant feedback

Strengths and weaknesses are identified

Students take active role in their learning

Teachers are provided with ‘heatmap’ analytics to optimize students results With real-time

reportsin the big-data era, teaching and learning will change

What is the future for education and dispersal of knowledge?

Textbooks ‘replaced’ by a ream of Internet data and content delivered by presenters on Youtube

Connectivity has altered power dynamicsPower in sharing, connecting, listening and grouping together to solve problems - but isn't that the best way? society that is flourishing? Hopefully the data will contribute to the development of this spirit.

Reaching Out : Lending Through Kiva and monitoring data

Big data is altering the framework of our society

A democratisation of knowledge?Students as bankers, thinking about microfinance, geography and loan ratios

Adapting to the power of the web yet spaces still about people, relationships and trust

Sadako with her class in 1946, Tokyo Japan Jill with her class in 2013, Gold Coast Australia

The Future of Learning ?

Understanding will be co-created

Google Shared Documents

Allowing students to write collaboratively

How we think about the utilisation of space and our identity in that space, is changing.

Individual, physical, virtual, creative, collaborative, conversational, group

LMS enabled Mini-MOOC

Foucault asserts knowledge is for cutting and rather than pour the students full of knowledge we asked them to deconstruct meaning about ‘flow’ as a large group. We got instant data.

Real power can’t be given it must only be taken

Students need to feel invested in the process

129 Year 8 Students were asked to respond online within 30 minutes to how they felt when they were in a state of flow?

Authoring Tools that Empower Creativity and

Connection ... that also produce data

What are collaborative learning tools are you using?

Creating Meaning, Creating sets of Data

Electronic Portfolios

Reflection, Connection, Creation - are we training ourselves to look for patterns?

peer to peer teaching

Big Data providing greater opportunities? • Adaptive learning - predicting individual needs

• Pedagogy - participatory, collaborative, facilitating connected spaces

• Critical conversations around process to monitor/analyze

Contact details

Jill Margerison@DrJMargerisonjill.margerison@tss.qld.edu.au

Big data - much ado about nothing? - probably not!