change education now!
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How we can engage collective capacity to best serve the educational needs and aspirations of kids today, tomorrow, and for years to come?TRANSCRIPT
Matching schools to the “knowmad”
society
Educational system is outdated
Was designed for the industrial age
Sir Ken Robinson Sugatra Mitra
Nikhil Goyal
Jef Staes
They advocate a need for change
Characteristics of system
Age groups
Learning in prescribed places
Learning dictated by roster
Teacher-centered classroom
Isolated classrooms
Hierarchical organizations
No voice
No choice
Re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic
The system need to change
The current system is sink-ing
The meaning of Education
Education ≠ schooling
Education = universal development of skills and knowledge, any time, any place, anywhere
Think differently about human capacity
Sir Ken Robinson – from “How schools kill creativity”We have to get over this old conception
of: of
Learning is an inborn capacity
What skills are really needed in the future?
”Ten years from now, relevant work skills will be shaped by the continued rise in global connectivity, smart technology and new media, among several other drivers.”
@ The Institute for the Future in Palo Alto
Future of LearningFrom Educational Institutions to
Learning Flows
The definitions of teacher and student are fluid.
Education is moving out of episodic experiences at traditional institutions like classrooms and schools into learning flows that course through our daily lives.
@ The Institute for the Future in Palo Alto
New technologies, new ecologies, and new practices are disrupting how we learn, what we learn, and where we learn.
The “Knowmad” society
Focus on ‘how’ to learn, not ‘what’ to learn
Shift from Formal to Invisible learning
Structured
Sequential
Supply-driven
Pre-set curriculum
Responsibility with teacher
Random
Free
Demand-driven
Individual curriculum
Responsibility with learner
Industrial
Know
mad
WHAT
HOW
Intrinsicmotivation
Amotivation
Self motivated learn-ing
Reward & punish-ment
Guilt, Pride & Shame
Relevance is recognized (by student)
Connected to own norms and values
Extrinsic motivation
TrustControl
Shift from Extrinsic to Intrinsic
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Performance outcomes
Learning informally primary school math takes 20 hours
Formal education takes ±2000 hours
Learn
ing
Time
Info
rmal
lear
ning
Formal learning
What can you do?
Reshape thinking
Our own thinking, assumptions and beliefs are modeled by our own schooling through centuries
Create ecology of options
Not “one” best practice
Industrial policy 21st century innovation policy
Top down Bottom up
Ecology of options
Doesn’t work
Best education efforts?
The best of these efforts are those in which the client population — the students — play a critical role.
http://www.knowmadsociety.com/
http://minnevate.mnasa.org/