future focused education - what does it look like?

CORE Breakfast presentation, Thursday 11 September, Hamilton

Future Focused Education:

What does it look like in your school?

THE DIGITAL LEARNER

•  2001 – iPod released •  2002 – NCEA introduced •  2010 – iPad released •  2013 – NCEA level 1

(includes programming)

•  1989 – Concept floated for WWW

•  1989 – Tomorrow’s Schools •  1993 - First browser

released •  1995 – WWW comes to NZ

BORN 1997

CHALLENGE

Have we grasped how significantly student access to technology is changing their expectations as learners?

320,000

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2016

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2026

2031

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13-18 years

PROJECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL POPULATION

Need to be vigilant about this space

Statistics New Zealand National Population Projections by Age and Sex, 2011(base)-2061

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Projected change in numbers at 15-19 years (Total NZ)

NZ: 28,000 FEWER SCHOOL LEAVERS OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS

Source: Statistics NZ 2012 Projected population of New Zealand by age and sex, 2011(base)-2061

325,119

369,090

353,091

300,000 310,000 320,000 330,000 340,000 350,000 360,000 370,000 380,000

2001 2006 2013

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Actual Numbers 13-18 Years 2001, 2006, 2013 (Total NZ)

IT IS HAPPENING – CENSUS 2013

Source: Statistics NZ 2012 Projected population of New Zealand by age and sex, 2011(base)-2061

32,901

36,369

34,899

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35,000

36,000

37,000

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Actual Numbers 13-18 Years 2001, 2006, 2013 (Waikato)

.. HAPPENING IN THE WAIKATO

11,307

12,588 12,753

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Actual N 13-18 Years 2001, 2006, 2013 (Hamilton City)

BUT - HAMILTON CITY ONE OF FEW TO BUCK THE TREND

SUMMARY

•  Every year for the next 19 years a successively larger cohort will reach the retirement zone

•  Every year for the next 15 years they will be replaced by a successively smaller cohort

•  2021-26 will see a brief respite, as the recently-born baby blip arrives at labour market age

•  A zero unemployment opportunity is here

http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367

The surprising jobs you’ll be doing by the 2030s

•  Robot counsellor •  Rewilder •  Garbage designer •  Neighbourhood watch specialist •  Simplicity expert •  Healthcare navigator •  Nostalgist •  Telesurgeon •  Solar technology specialist •  Aquaponic fish farmer

http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367

FUTURE FOCUSED – WHICH FUTURE?

Picture from a reading book for the primary school (8 year olds) in Sweden, 1903

WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?

How can schooling change to meet meet the opportunities and challenges of the

21st century?

WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?

How can we prepare students to address "future-focused" issues such as

sustainability, globalisation, citizenship, and enterprise?

WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?

How can education prepare students for living in the 21st century?

TWO PERSPECTIVES OF EDUCATION…

•  How will learning occur?

•  What about the role of teachers?

•  What sorts of environments?

•  What will we learn about?

•  What will we learn with?

•  What skills/knowledge/ competencies do we need to be developing now in order to cope with what the future might hold?

In the future For the future

EDUCATION IN THE FUTURE…

•  How will learning occur? •  What about the role of teachers? •  What sorts of environments? •  What will we learn about? •  What will we learn with?

http://ingvihrannar.com/14-things-that-are-obsolete-in-21st-century-schools/

1.  Computer rooms

2.  Isolated classrooms

3.  Schools that don’t have WiFi

4.  Banning phones and tablets

5.  Tech director with an admin access

6.  Teachers that don’t share what they do

7.  Schools that don’t have Facebook or Twitter

8.  Unhealthy cafeteria food

9.  Starting school at 8am for teenagers

10.  Buying poster, website and pamphlet design for school

11.  Traditional libraries

12.  All students get the same

13.  One-PD-workshop-fits-all

14.  Standardized tests to measure the quality of education

REPLIES

WHERE WILL THEY LEARN?

Students in physical school, instruction and

assessment predominantly on-

site

Students access formal learning via

the network, instruction and

assessment provided online

Students learning through their

online personal learning network,

incl. social networking

environments

Students at home, library or other space, pursuing

own interests individually or collaboratively

FORMAL  

INFORMAL  

PHYSICAL

  VIRTUAL  

e.g. Classrooms, field trips, music

exams, sports awards etc.

e.g. Virtual Learning Network, online classrooms, Coursera, virtual

field trips etc.

e.g. PLN comprising

Facebook, Twitter, Khan Academy,

YouTube etc.

e.g. Community library, sports

organisations, after school clubs etc.

ASB BUILDING

ASB BUILDING

ASB BUILDING

ASB BUILDING

ASB BUILDING

UNPACK

If this is the kind of work environment our young people will be functioning in when they leave school, how well effectively we preparing them for this in the environments we have in our schools?

WHAT WILL THEY LEARN?

FUTURE FOCUS THEMES

•  Sustainability •  Enterprise •  Globalization •  Citizenship

THINKING 3D

•  kjb

http://bit.ly/1tKP5Lm

HOW WILL THEY LEARN?

FOUR FORMS BEHIND THE ORGANISATION AND EVOLUTION OF ALL SOCIETIES - TMIN

History 7000 BC 3000 AD

David Ronfeldt TIMN (Tribal, Institutional, Market, Network)

•  Open •  Distributed •  Scalable •  Social •  Generative •  Networked •  Self-organised •  Adaptive •  Global

An education system that fails to emulate the characteristics of information in an era of knowledge is doomed to fail. Information today is…

George Siemens: Connectivism – a theory of learning for the networked age http://www.connectivism.ca/

School A

Groups

TWO FORMS OF NETWORK

Network PLN

Federally organised Collections of entities Collaborative Heterarchical Networked knowledge

Externally organised Single entity Competitive Hierarchical Knowledge transfer

Personally organised Association of entities Connected Heutagogy Personal knowledge

The way networks learn is the way individuals learn

EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE…

What skills/knowledge/ competencies do we need to be developing now in order to cope with what the future might hold?

THE FUTURE…

•  Food supply •  Water •  Cryogenics •  Nano-technology

•  Cultural assimilation

•  Human rights

•  Poverty

•  Religious intolerance

FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS

•  Personalising learning – how can you build the school curriculum around the learner and more flexibly to meet learners’ needs?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29063614

FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS

•  Are you building an inclusive learning environment - how do you: •  enage learners, family/whānau, and communities in co-shaping education to address students’ needs, strengths, interests and aspirations?

•  provide access to anywhere, anytime learning?

•  support assessment and evaluation processes so that these are dynamic and responsive to information about students?

FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS

•  Are you developing a school curriculum that uses knowledge to develop learning capacity – how can you enable students to create and use new knowledge to solve problems and find solutions to challenges as they arise on a “just-in-time” basis?

FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS

•  Rethinking learners’ and create a “knowledge-building” learning environment where learners and teachers work together?

FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS

•  Building a culture of continuous learning for teachers and school leaders – what opportunities to participate in and build professional learning are afforded by technologies?

FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS

•  How can technologies be used to facilitate all of this?

Modern technologies provide students with

the potential for experiences of unprecedented breadth, depth and relevance.

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We now have the conditions for

modern learners to tackle projects of

a complexity previously

unimaginable.

..as a result we must

rethink what we expect of our students.

We must stop

underestimating what they are now capable of;

and above all…set much

higher expectations

.

The evolving learning environment…

14TH- 19TH CENTURY

PRINT ERA

Authors/Publishers Books, Documents

21ST CENTURY

COLLABORATIVE AGE Community Generated Experiences

Mixed Media, Social Networks, Virtual Environments

20TH CENTURY

BROADCAST ERA

Vendor Produced Content

Film, Radio, TV, Video, Web Pages

Forget blogs – think open dialogues

Forget wikis – think collaboration

Forget podcasts – think

democratisation of voice

Forget RSS/aggregation - think personal learning networks

Derek Wenmoth Email: derek@core-ed.org

Blog: http://blog.core-ed.org/derek Skype: <dwenmoth>