The Learning Revolution

• 1. The Learning Revolution lafur Andri Ragnarsson

2. Have teaching methods notchanged over time? 3. Reykjavk University some centuries later 4. 2+ billion users areconnected to a global networkCopyright 2011, lafur 5. 93,2% of Icelanders are onlineFlickr photo: Arkadyevna 6. Its not about technology itsall about cultural change 7. 2000 2010iMac iPhone Mac OS 9.0.4 iOS 4.0 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB Memory 1 Ghz ARM A4 CPU, 512MB Memory Screen - 786K pixels Screen - 614K pixels Storage - 30GB Hard DriveStorage - 32GB Flash DriveSource: Ars Technical Images: Apple 8. There is a fundamental shift in howpeople consume contentCopyright 2011, lafur Picture by Flickr user Shaggyshoo 9. Every minute, 24 hours of content isuploaded to YouTube 10. SocialPeople spend 9.3billion hours onFacebook eachmonthThats 1,065,449 year 11. Digitallifestyle 12. Digital Online World 13. Learning is part of this worldDigitalonlineworld 14. The knowledge of the world is at ourfingertips 15. Teaching methods are restrictedto the limitations of the pastFlickr: dfridge 16. Opportunity to innovate in educationis to change the attitude to learning 17. OPEN UP 18. RETHINK READING ASSIGNMENTS 19. RETHINK READING ASSIGNMENTS 20. Short clip form Jane McGonigals TED lecture: Gaming can make a better worldgoo.gl/sVZyx 21. PUBLISH WRITING 22. RECORD EVERYTHING 23. Example from lecture recording. Full videos are in RU MySchool 24. Camtasia 25. Bamboo Wacom Pen Tablet 26. TELL STORIES 27. Short clip form 1992 documentary: The Machine That Changed the World: Giant Brains.http://goo.gl/AQ2fVThe story starts at 8:12 28. WHAT EVER IT TAKES WTF? 29. The web is just 20,we are in the earlystages 30. lafur Andri Ragnarsson [email protected] olafurandri.com twitter.com/olandri delicious/olandri foursquare.com/olandri