further education and skills: next generation learning kendal college 8 th may bob harrison
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Further education and skills: next generation learning
Kendal College 8th May
Bob Harrison
The Obama Effect• President Obama said:
• • "In a 21st-century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there's an
Internet connection, where a child born in Dallas is now competing with a child in New Delhi, where your best job qualification is not what you do, but what you know -- education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it's a prerequisite for success."
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• In addition, President Obama noted that:
• • "I'm calling on our nation's governors and state education chiefs to
develop standards and assessments that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity."
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Context
We want to see:
•colleges and providers understanding technology and making strategic investments in IT
•staff who are confident and skilled in deploying technology
•discriminating learners and employers choosing what, where, when and how to learn in a safe environment
•teaching and learning supported by fit-for-purpose and innovative technology such as customised planning and curriculum management tools, online assessment etc
•‘intelligent’ buildings and transformed learning spaces
•business systems made effective and efficient through technology
Our vision for further education, skills and regeneration is of a system in which technology will help colleges and providers to meet the needs of learners, employers and communities at all levels – local, regional and national.
The technology horizon
Avoiding uncertain prediction
Current educational leading edge and emerging business IT practice:
• Personal internet devices and mobility• Ubiquitous connectivity, wireless access• Resource, application and desktop virtualisation• Other ‘green computing’ practices – power management,
recycling, telecommuting• Next generation collaborative environments (e.g. VLEs)
A view informed by…
Partners’ visions for capital programmes
A view informed by…
FE college e-enablement plateau, and stubborn late adopter segment
Becta: Measuring e-maturity in the FE sector (2008)
FE College leadership and organisational culture challenges
E-Mature providers:
Technology for learning strategy is led by a member of the senior leadership team, with the full support of the Principal
The strategy is founded in business and quality improvement
Innovation is supported and encouraged Change has been accepted by staff as a necessary
challenge
Becta: Measuring e-maturity in the FE Sector (2008)
Only 1 in 4 colleges are using technology really well
that means that 3,515,250 learners
could be getting more from their provider
and this is only counting public-funded learners!
Technology now...the reality
What it takes to learn
John Dewey
Jean Piaget
Lev Vygotsky
Jerome Bruner
Paulo Freire Gordon Pask
Terry Winograd
Seymour Papert
Lauren Resnick
John Seely Brown
Ference Marton
Roger Säljö
John Biggs
Jean Lave
Inquiry-based education
Constructivism
Mediated learning
Discovery learning
Learning as problematization
Learning as conversation
Problem-based learning
Reflective practice
Meta-cognition
Experiential learning
Learner-oriented approach
Social constructivism
Situated learning
share a commonconceptionof the learningprocess
1890..
1940..
1960..
1980..
2000..
There is a common thread in our understanding of learning
- the learner is an active agent in the learning process
What it takes to learn does not change
Inquiry-based learning
Constructivism
Mediated learning
Discovery learning
Learning as conversation
Problem-based learning
Reflective practice
Meta-cognition
Experiential learning
Learner-oriented approach
Social constructivism
Situated learning
Books, Blackboards, Slides
Broadcasts, Overhead projectors
Tape-slides
Interactive whiteboards, Powerpoint
Web-pages, Podcasts
Modelling tools
Simulations
Chat-rooms
Online conferences
Multiplayer games
Wikis
Blogs
Learning through attention
Learning
1908
1958
20042008
Learning
1908
1958
2008
What do these all have common?
Answer: They have all been banned in classrooms
Disconnect(Ed)
Learners
Their Space: Digital Beginnings
Hannah GreenCelia Hannon
“In class I have to power down” (Guardian, May, 2007)
“In class I have to power down” (Guardian, May, 2007)
Learners of the future
Common classroom activities
52%
29%
25%
22%
22%
17%
16%
16%
10%
10%
9%
8%
7%
7%
4%
3%
Copy from the board or a book
Listen to a teacher talking for a long time
Have a class discussion
Take notes while my teacher talks
Work in small groups to solve a problem
Have a drink of water when I need it
Work on a computer
Listen to background music
Have some activities that allow me to move around
Create pictures or maps to help me remember
Have a change of activity to help focus
Which three of the following do you do most often in class?
Spend time thinking quietly on my own
Talk about my work with a teacher
Learn things that relate to the real world
Teach my classmates about something
Base: All pupils (2,417) Source: Ipsos MORI
Have people from outside to help me learnLearn outside in my school’s grounds
33%
Most preferred ways to learn
55%
39%
35%
31%
21%
19%
16%
14%
12%
9%
9%
8%
5%
6%
3%
1%
In groups
By doing practical things
With friends
By using computers
Alone
From friends
With your parents
By practising
By copying
By thinking for yourself
Other
From others
In which three of the following ways do you prefer to learn?
From teachers
By seeing things done
In silence
At a museum or library
Base: All pupils (2,417) Source: Ipsos MORI
Learners
“More than half of all secondary school students are excited about using mobile devices to help them learn; only 15 percent of school leaders support this idea.”
Source: Project Tomorrow. Credit: David Julian
Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies-Top Tools for Learners 2009.1. Googlesearch
2. YouTube3. Firefox4. Wikipedia5. Gmail,Facebook,Google reader,Twitter6. Google scholar7. Skype8. Moodle9. Itunes10.Word11.Flickr12.Powerpoint13.Slideshare
Learners
• How children learn using technology outside school•
Learners
• Children's favourite learning with technology inside school•
Learners
Learning
Learning
Learning - iTunes U
Learning - iTunes U
Learning •Harnessing Technology: Preliminary identification of trends affecting the use of technology for learning •July 2008 •Ian Chowcat, Barry Phillips and John Popham - Sero Consulting •Ian Jones, Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham
LearningFrom our preliminary analysis of the trends, six cross-cutting themes emerge; these are the:
• Wide-ranging implications for curriculum and pedagogy of Web 2.0 technologies, and the behaviours of young people who are incorporating them into their lives. • Longer-term impact on curriculum and pedagogy of capital investment programmes. • Changing demands for workplace skills. • Extent to which both social and technological drivers will lead to a fundamental transformation of the character of education and how it is organised. • Implications for the pedagogical role and professional development of teachers and other enablers of learning. • Implications for education of the arrival of pervasive computing.
Questions, questions
- what sort of education do we want to see in future?
- how many computers do we need?
- what sorts of learning relationships do we want to foster?
- what buildings do we want?
- what competencies do we want learners to develop?
- What tools and resources are available to us to support learning?
Adapted from “Re-Imagining Learning Spaces” - Futurelab, 2006
21st Century Learning
• If the aim is really to transform education then we must:
–Use 21st century tools to develop learning skills–Teach and learn in a 21st century context–Teach and learn 21st century content–Use 21st century assessments that measure 21st century
skills
Learning for the 21st Century (2004)
It’s not about the technology ….
… it’s about new thinking.
he barriers are in our heads!through the Building Schools for the Future programme.
Almost all the barriers are in our heads.
The only barriers are in our heads!
What are your challenges ?
How can Becta help?
The Challenge