Future-focused learning

Where do we stand in the digital landscape?

Karen Melhuish Spencer | @virtuallykaren | #NZCETA July 2013

No hea au?

“To ensure

the future

we must invest in

the

present”

“Nostalgia for the accidental scarcity we’ve just emerged from is just a sideshow.

The main event is trying to shape the greatest expansion of expressive capability the world has ever known.”

Howard Rheingold, ‘NetSmart’

Trend 1: Ubiquity

Trend 2: Agency

Trend 3: Connectivity

The rise of the prosumer

The rise of the prosumer

Beautiful

magical

accounting

software

WHAT’S THE POINT?

Since our education systems were first established there has been enormous change in the nature of societies,

change in the nature of work, change in how knowledge is viewed, and

change in technologies, to name just a few.

Those changes, and the certainty of ongoing change, have implications for the kind of education our young people require, and the focus of the teaching and learning they experience”

“

Ministry of Education, 2013

UNBUNDLE thinking

UNBUNDLEstructure

UNBUNDLE content

The potential of new technologies to

transform

teaching and learning is heavily dependent on

educators’ abilities

to see

the affordances and capacities of ICT in relation to the underpinning themes for learning for the 21st century ”

“

Unlock the

potential of mobile & BYOD

Picture your students...

Picture your students...

Build a tower

Build a tower

How high can you build a tower before its

stability is affected?

The technology is far less important than the kind of education that it enables.

#1 Content that connects...

“..how people can participate as critical, active, informed, and responsible

citizens. Contexts are drawn from the past, present, and

future.”- NZC, Social

Sciences

#2Mihi-

driven pedago

gy

Teacher expectation & student engagement

A reason

to engage

http://www.flickr.com/photos/learnscope/2547026015/sizes/m/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevintice/189207135/sizes/m/

Multiple pathways

When we focus too much on doing things perfectly, we don't engage in the kind of exploratory thinking and

behavior that creates new knowledge and innovation - Halvorson

http://www.passionfruitmagazine.co.nz

Multiple ways

to represent what I know

written report

presentationcollaboratively produced

website/wiki

a pitch to their local restaurant

e-book

blog post series

multi-media presentation/video

Voicethread

Interviews / role-play

www.elearning.tki.org

www.elearning.tki.org

VLN Groups - online community for teacherswww.vln.school.nz

Focus

•How are your students building on their interests and passions?

•How can you design exploration and multiple pathways into the learning?

•How can technologies support that design?

•How can you connect to communities and resources to find our what others are doing?

YouTube source: Entrepeneurs can change the world

Credits• Slide 6: Oscar Espiritusanto

• Slide 7: NBC Today Show : http://instagram.com/p/W2BuMLQLRB/

• Slide 9: edkohler, | xiaming, | sfllaw

• Slide 11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UDZo51k2BWQ

• Slide 15 : http://sweetydesign.com/hotel-design/balcony-swimming-pools-in-aquaria-grande-tower

• Slide 16: École Maternelle Pajol, Paris - Timbuktu; http://timbuktu.me/blog/10-best-kindergarten-buildings/schoolparis-2/

• Slide 18: WOScholar

• Slide 26: InspirationDC

• Slide 27: http://www.genirevolution.org

• Slide 28: Bristlebots : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMwTOF7Tir0&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

• Slide 29: http://www.yourteenbusiness.com/

• Slide 30: Rock Our World with Pt England School

• Slide 37: Dylan231

• Slide 42: elycefeliz

• Slide 43: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Uyd5S1mZqY

karen.melhuishspencer@core-ed.org

@virtuallykaren