A new school A new way of learning. Secondary education redesigned.

A new schoolA new way of learning

Secondary education redesigned

Views on Redesign How would a school look like

if it was invented now?

Fundamental and out of the box: • Use all knowledge about learning, teaching

and business organization • Forget traditions • Ignore all regulations

but stay within• the limits of the school budget• the terms of the examinations

The reason why

• ICT makes it possible to change processes inside and outside the school

• The theory of Social Constructivism shows us that ‘learning’ needs very different processes compared to ‘teaching’.

• Recent brain-research shows us that the knowledge people use (informal) is very different from the knowledge that is defined in books, curricula or the knowledge a teacher thinks that is important (formal)……..

The nature of learning

• Learning starts at the edge of the knowing and of the not-knowing......So:

• We don’t know the moment that an individual reaches the edge

• We dont know his/her gap between knowing and not-knowing.... So:

• Schools with time tables and pre-described subject matter are not about learning

What is a traditional school about?..

• The knowledge that is communicated in books

• That can be divided in small parts and among different teachers

• That makes that a student now knows what he will learn at April 4th at 3h. p.m.

• The industrial approach of knowledge and learning

Organisation

• Industrial approach...

Content

Teacher Student

Content

Teacher Student

Content

Teacher

Student

Content

Teacher

Student

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

ContentContent

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

Production-orientation:

-Teacher driven

- Standardisation in time and content parts

- Bandwidth of production-line determines the bandwidth of the possible output

- Learning = mastering the content that is received in classroom

-Goal = reaching objective standards

Or better:BookBook

AdultAdult

Fellow studentFellow student

ICTICT

Expert outside Expert outside schoolschool

Etc.Etc.

Service-orientation:

-Student driven

- Just in time and just in case learning

- Personal capacity determines the ‘learning-range’ of the individual student

- Learning = mental and individual: creating new neural connections after a critical experience

-Goal = optimal personal development in regard to one’s capacity and the knowledge field the school focuses on.

Learning organisation

Learning sources

Student

Learning

• What is knowledge?

Learning and knowing

• At what age does a child understand the grammar rules of it’s mother language ?

Knowledge

Encoding knowledge

Fysical Psychological

Formal    

Learning, during lifetime

Studying, during school time

Neurological knowledge model

RETRIEVAL

competencies

reproduction

abilities

STORAGE unaw

are

awar

e

FACTS

SKILLS

UNDERSTANDING

ATTITUDE

INPUT

verb

alIn

tuit

ive

Informal

Formal

Vision on learning

Eclectic: – Constructivism: building insights– Behavourism: building routines– Cognitivism: learning facts

– Raising students towards attitudes

Curriculum not based on subject matters but…

Gestalts (insight)Science and Humanities

Intensive language courses (routines)

Interwoven by communication, mathematics, arts (skills)

homegroup

Course year 1

50 students

Learning community

150 students

task-groups

No classes, but learning communities:

Y 2

Y 3

Building•Library

•Sport club

•Neighborhood

•Police

•Fire-brigade

•Hotel

•Plant

•Farm

•Supermarket

•Hospital

•Garage

Application

Instructio

n

Home base

Discovery Course Development

Information

Home

base Home base

Concentration

Questions

ICT philosofyInteractive learning interactive ICT

ICT is just one part of wide variety of didactic tools,

and replaces some roles of teachers

Type of ICT used is based upon learning taskGestalts : visualisations and animations; facts: database, telelearning; routines: simulations

Digital learning material: Because of the new concept school has to make

its own curriculum and choices for ICT and software

Learning sources student

Didactic triangle

Learning organization

books, e-tools,Fellow-students,tutors, assessments, etc.

Curriculum,Staff-organization, Learning environment

Electronic Learning

Environment

Didactictriangle

Administration

Digital lessons

Portfolio pupils

Search/find

assessments

progression

organization

Importance of ICT

More information

[email protected]