Integrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership

Time between Times

Jonathan Nalder Teacher, MEd (QUT), ADE ,

Smart Classrooms Teaching Award 2009Finalist, Handheld Learning Awards 2009 (UK)

“This is the most exciting & dynamic time to be an educator of the educators because...”

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Helena, 16 months

We all need to have the mindset of a child now...

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“It simply isn’t the 20th century any more.

So why would we teach as though it was?”

(Stephen Heppell, 2008)

This is the time between times for educators working with technology. Before mobile, ubiquitous and ‘everyware’ computing become the invisible norm, but after a time when educators could sit back and wait for the digital revolution to pass on by.

BEFORE...

Industrial Revolution...

Digital Age...

Digital Revolution so far:

1.0 2.0

3.0

W W W

Time:mid-80ʼs

2015

mid-00ʼsmid-90ʼs

C L O U DThe Web/ Connectivity/ Mobilty/ Learner paradigms as timeline

Desktop PC Notebook sales overtake Desktops

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Phase 1: Computing goes mobile - PDAs, MP3 players, podcasting - one use, stand-alone

Phase 2: Connectivity goes mobile - Mobile Safari, Netbooks, Web Apps, 3G wireless broadband

Mobile:M.I.D.s

Palm PDA

Laptops Smartphones

Ubiquitous computing

ʻEverywareʼ

NetbooksBlackberry

email

- converged access to cloud data / Networks / services

Learner-Centeredness: eLearning

mLearning

PLE/PLNConnectivism

Virtual Primary Schools

3G

4G

1G 2G

Networks:Mainframe toMainframe

SocialPC to Web P2P

?WiFi

A.I.Semantic

web

Twitter

Each cell covers developments from the late 1980s to today.

Web 1.0

Web 3.0 Web

2.0

COMMUNICATE

Mobile phone;SMS;MMS;

mobile email;VOIP; Twitter;

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NAVIGATE

CD-ROM;Web search (closest match);

Google (most-linked);Information literacy;

Interface literacy(transferable)

CREATE

html;Personal homepage;

Blogging;Flickr;

Youtube;Mashups

CONNECT

List-servs;Forums;

Myspace;del.icio.us.;Facebook;

NingTwitter

2011?Mobilize: carry /access

anywhere anytime.

Automate: setup AI functions to handle complexity.

What does Digital Revolution mean for us?We need these skills to function:

What’s he think of you as an educator?

Bob AuBuchon

What does the Digital Revolution mean for students?

Pre-internet/ connectivity

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How can we teach to this room?

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Qs

Tullawong computer survey:Overall %ʼs per Question:

1. Computer?2. Use Computer?2B. Use twice/w?3. Internet?4. Use Internet?4B. Use net twice/w?5. Mobile Phone?5B. Internet on mobile?6. Other mobile device?

Approx. 650 students surveyed

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“Using a $US77 Nikon Coolpix and a $US60 latex balloon filled with helium, plus some homemade electronics like a timer and gps attachment, a team of teenage students captured these remarkable shots from 32km above the Earth's surface.”

“The biggest question about technology and schools in the 21st century is not so much ‘What can it do?’ but, rather, ‘When will it get to do it?’”

(Marc Prensky, 2008).

But Education has not kept up with the digital revolution...

The US commerce department ranked 55 industry sectors by their level of IT - intensiveness.

Education came last, after coal mining. Dumagan, Gill, Ingram, 2003

Education cannot keep up with the pace of change in technology. For the first time in

Western history most end-users probably have better leisure access to technology

(through mobile phones, game devices & computers etc.) than in many of the

institutions we work & learn.Stuart Smith 2009

This is the time between times for educators working with technology. Before mobile, ubiquitous and ‘everyware’ computing become the invisible norm, but after a time when educators could sit back and wait for the digital revolution to pass on by.

Lets look at this perspective instead:

As slow as some in education have been to respond to rapid technological change, this is however the most exciting and dynamic time to be an educator because ...

Proposition to overcome negativity:

Word cloud of responses from 7 educators:The number one term is missing...

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Dr Tony Karrer, USACEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web & eLearning development firm

http://elearningtech.blogspot.com

“Educators today are in the midst of one of the most interesting transformations where individual knowledge becomes devalued, but the ability to teach new metacognitive tools and methods is more important than ever.”

RESPONSES:

Professor Stephen Heppell, U.K.Founder, Ultralab and Think.com, Educational Futures consultant

www.heppell.net

RESPONSES:

“We have moved from the flat start of technological progression's exponential curve to the steep part ... All the old certainties of a last century world of factory schools with formulaic rigours of "met before" learning have palpably failed to meet the needs of a world full of surprises and the unexpected. It's the death of factory education and the dawn of learning.”.

George Siemens, Canada.Founder of ‘Connectivism’, Associate Director with the Learning Technologies Centre (University of Manitoba)

www.elearnspace.org

“I believe that we are seeing, in educational techno logy, a r a re conver gence o f technological transformation and ideological development. The future of education will be shaped by those who are able to anticipate & understand the impact of the dual forces of social learning & participative technology”.

RESPONSES:

Shane Roberts, Gold Coast, Australia.Secondary HPE teacher, and Advanced Pedagogical Licence holder

http://shanetechteach.edublogs.org

“This could be a time considered for preparation for anywhere, anytime learning ... Change is an exciting process, for me in p a r t i c u l a r a s i t m e a n s t r i a l a n d experimentation are welcomed. Less effective or productive practices can be discovered, trialled and reported on without fear of being labeled incompetent – as long as learning is achieved and demonstrated.”

RESPONSES:

A clue to the missing #1 term...

Tony Vincent, USA.Former teacher, now trainer and mLearning education consultant

www.learninginhand.com

“What I love even more than teaching is learning. And in the changing digital and social landscape, I get to learn constantly and reinforce my learning by sharing it with others.”

RESPONSES:

Emma Heffernan, Australia Manager Discovery Programs, eLearning Branch, Education Queensland

“Technology is a great democratiser of education. It  is no longer expected that educators hold the knowledge to impar t to their learners ... For the first time in history students and teachers are consciously playing the same role; we are all learners.

RESPONSES:

Toni Twiss, NZFormer teacher, now a director of eLearning for secondary

schools and lecturer at Waikato University http://tonitwiss.com

“We have to rekindle our passion for learning. As teachers it is a time to remember what it feels like to be a learner ...  We are put in the shoes of the very students we teach as we explore and exper iment with the potent ia l of new technologies, and perhaps most importantly, reconstruct and refresh understanding of our own pedagogy and practice rather than just doing what we have always done”.

RESPONSES:

And the winner is - LEARNING. This was far and away the main thing that excited our educators about being a teacher right now -

Learning is being returned to the centre of education.

Time between Times

Jonathan Nalder Learning Support Teacher, MEd (QUT), ADE ,

Smart Classrooms Award 2009(SL)Handheld Learning Awards 2009 finalist (UK)

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