Future-focused learning Where do we stand in the digital landscape? Karen Melhuish Spencer | @virtuallykaren | #NZCETA July 2013
Nov 01, 2014
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
@virtuallykaren