UK Learning: Rethinking spaces for collaboration and future learning in primary and secondary schools. 21 October, 2014
Dec 14, 2015
UK Learning:Rethinking spaces for collaboration and future
learning in primary and secondary schools.21 October, 2014
Don’t be afraid to take a big step when indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. [David Lloyd George]
Stephen Harris@[email protected] & Director SCIL
Are our schools adequately preparing our students for the
future?
A simple question
Let’s go back just over a decade to
2000
In 2000text messaging introduced to AT&T
first Hybrid carGPS goes mainstream
J Phone first phone/cameraTripAdvisor founded
In 2001Wikipedia launched
In 2002Moodle released
In 2003Apple opens iTunes store
WordPress launchedMore camera phones sold than
digital camerasHuman genome project completed
In 2004Facebook launched
Google became publicly listed company
In 2005YouTube launched
Nokia largest brand for phone/camera
In 2006Twitter launched
Nintendo Wii Launched
In 2007iPhone launched
In 2010s3D printers became mainstreamDrones become commonplace
Wearable technology
let’s jump ahead
2030
Autonomous vehicles• 2010s driverless cars emerge• By 2020, Volvo envisages having cars in
which passengers would be immune from injuries.
• By 2020, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Nissan, BMW and Renault all expect to sell vehicles that can drive themselves at least part of the time.
• By 2025, Daimler and Ford expect fully autonomous vehicles on the market.
• By 2035, IHS Automotive report says will be the year most self-driving vehicles will be operated completely independent from a human occupant’s control.
2035
2035 timeline • Final collapse of European Union• Russia is a global food superpower• Establishment of first manned lunar bases• Economic decline of Middle East• Arctic ice free in September• Distributed propulsion systems revolutionise air travel• Robots dominate battlefields• Researchers and investors hope that space elevator
will be built• Fully functioning artificial eyes are available• Fights over control of water resources• China the superpower in Asia and Africa
start preschool
2015+3+7+6+4=
2035graduate from tertiary
Can we predict what students will need
20 years out?
Can we predict what technology will have been developed and become
commonplace?
Will education institutions as we currently know
them exist beyond this decade?
2014
That’s like trying to strap a rocket engine onto an elephant so that it can move faster. Good luck.
John P. Kotter from ‘XLR8’
‘The situation will no longer be improved by tweaking the usual methodology or adding turbochargers to a single hierarchical system.
Education 2030“We are transitioning from a teaching model to a learning model. Teaching requires experts. Learning only requires coaches.With increasing online assets in place, we are moving quickly into the new frontier of a teacherless education system.”
Jobs Going Away New Jobs Created- Teachers - Coaches- Trainers - Course designers- Professors - Learning camps
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/02/2-billion-jobs-to-disappear-by-2030/
Learning has already
democratised to the point that no longer
can we control what students learn.
We have gone through this hourglass in history when a paradigm shift occurred and yet many have not realised this.
What is
paradigm
shift?
A paradigm shift is, according to Thomas Kuhn, a change in the
basic assumptions …
a profound change in a fundamental model
or perception of events ...
… invent the future, don’t prevent the future
…
the heart of the problem
Move away from the ‘factory-style’ paradigm
separate roomsseparate and separated educators
separated class groupsseparate desks & chairs or rows
separate preparation
separate
Will there be a role for schools into the future?
YES, if we act now!
1. Schools will be the cornerstone of the community. Places which combine a relational heart with a love for learning.
2. Schools will be the ‘base station’ for everyone’s learning journeys.
3. Students will take some courses directly with the school, but may just as easily be undertaking some study with a range of other providers.
4. Schools will be part of the ‘real world’.
5. Students will learn within a community that seeks to nurture and grow them.
6. As lead learners, teachers will have a critical role as the expert, guide, coach and mentor.
Tool Box
How up-to-date is your toolbox?
Tool Box
useful
Tool Boxcommunity1
2
3
connection
collaboration
Tool Box
we – me balance
Tool BoxSome
‘nuts and bolts’ of accelerating change
From teaching to learning; from teacher to teams; from passive to active; from batch to personal; from management to engagement; from control to
empowerment
Align
resourcespeople budgets vision design
New roles
collaboration coachchange agent
pedagogic coachsustainability coach
are an element in the equation
Physical spaces
What does it mean to
be mobile?
3 screen day
visualise ideas:
What is the
pedagogy of the new paradigm?
campfires – 1 to many
working together – watering hole cave – individual work
experiment – sandpitanywhere, anytime – digital space
Adapted from David Thornburg
professional spaces
write-ablesurfaces
staff workspaces
visible learning
Designing for future focus
What skills?1.Sense Making2.Social Intelligence3.Novel and Adaptive Thinking4.Cross-Cultural Competency5.Computational Thinking6.New-Media Literacy7.Transdisciplinarity8.Design Mindset9.Cognitive Load Management10.Virtual Collaboration (Source : The Institute for the Future (IFTF), June 2011)
Change Managementvision buy in skills incentives resources action plan = change
buy in skills incentives resources action plan = confusion
vision skills incentives resources action plan = sabotage
vision buy in incentives resources action plan = anxiety
vision buy in skills resources action plan = resistance
vision buy in skills incentives action plan = frustration
vision buy in skills incentives resources = treadmill
Adapted from Knoster, T. (1991, June). Factors in managing complex change.
Design is changing!
Are you changing too?