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
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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
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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 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
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FACTS
SKILLS
UNDERSTANDING
ATTITUDE
INPUT
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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
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Home base
Discovery Course Development
Information
Home
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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