Education is an Uncontrolled Experiment - Paul Kelley

Science, Technology and Education from teaching to making minds

Ides of June 2010

A new world view

Education is an uncontrolled experiment

(Kelley,2008)

In our lifetime we will actually know how learning is occurring

Professor Usha Goswami,Cambridge University

Businesses, universities, government, schools

sharing information and expertise

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Learning sciences

create, test and share solutions

using new science and technologies

more effective, efficient, engagingAndrew N. Meltzoff, et al. Science 325, 284 (2009)

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Taking learning to scale

Understanding learners

Learning from others

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Lower costs, better outcomes?

Distributing learning anywhere

Infinitely scalable

Cheaper, faster, betterVital and OneNote

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YOUNG APPLICANTS IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

A UK HE success story

‘THE case study for Higher Education in schools’

10,000+ students40% increase each year600 schools / colleges

Primary Language courses

every lesson, every resourceteacher training French, Spanish, Mandarin, English . . .

. . . for less than $1 per student

. . . and better results than conventional teaching (University of Durham data analysis 2007)

2,000 schools@1,000,000 pupils

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Primary Languages

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Entrepreneurship and Globalisation: Hebei Province

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More students learn through Monkseaton’s innovations in other schools . . .

. . . than in Monkseaton itself

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Taking learning to scale

Understanding learners

Learning from others

Excel has the statistical tools to prove what solutions work, are cost effective and favoured by students, staff or families.

Schools can be independent organisations driven by real time data.

adapting to our worldmeans adapting to more

InformationCommunication

Technologies

academicactions

progress confidence

emotionalattitudes

healthbody clock

attendancebody analysis

Key PerformanceIndicators

Direct access for parents

A student’s own self assessment is as accurate as teachers or tests

(OECD studies, 2004 onward)

Do I have to read all these today??

Existing ways of conceiving human behaviour were developed without access to terabytes (1012)of data

Lazer et al., Computational Social Science, Science, 6 February 2009

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adapting to more information means more abstraction-

like algebraFlynn, What is Intelligence? 2009

Taking learning to scale

Understanding learners

Learning from others

Knowledge transferfrom new science and technology

InformationCommunication

Technologies

YES WE CAN

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Woof, woof information

means algebra

DARPA and others

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Learning is a physical process

plasticity

is lifetime adaptation to our environment

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Plasticity

is lifetime adaptation to our environment

based on naturalenvironmental cues

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Light

A natural cue

ProfessorRussell Foster

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Light

Natural lightAnd >1,000 lux inside

Natural light: nano-gel

. . . and cheaper per m2

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Light

Daylightand body clocks

This programme was broadcast 24 February 2009 and is not on BBC IPlayer- hopefully it will be out on DVD soon (or rebroadcast)

so change the school day

. . . and start after 10

YESWE CAN

ASK NOT . . .

what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country

Scientific American, October 2009

The symbol H+ is the code sign used by somefuturists to denote an enhanced version ofhumanity. The plus version of the humanrace would deploy a mix of advanced technologies, including stem cells, robotics, cognition enhancing drugs, and the like, to overcome basic mental and physical limitations.

Scientific American, October 2009

In our lifetime we will actually know how learning is occurring

Professor Usha Goswami,Cambridge University

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Learning is a physical process

plasticity

is lifetime adaptation to our environment

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Plasticity

is lifetime adaptation to our environment

based on naturalenvironmental cues

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Time

A natural cue

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Spaced learning

Massed training/ lessons- unnatural?

Spaced learning- Spaced environmental cues

-natural?

Doug Fields

Spaced Learning

FINALLY,WE BEGAN

TO APPRECIATE THATTHE IMPORTANT

FACTORWAS TIME

Monkseaton High SchoolConfidential

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Spaced Learning

Proof by outcome

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Spaced Learning

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We are an integrated learning creature

Latent learning

Procedural learning

Didactic learning)

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a natural learning environment

neuroscience: light, time patternssocial: peers, parents, partners

scientific: evidence not habitTechnologies: faster, better

Part 3: Science and neuroscience

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Learning sciences

create, test and share solutions

using new science and technologies

more effectiveAndrew N. Meltzoff, et al. Science 325, 284 (2009)

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