what happens when the device disappears csba 2014

What happens when the device disappears? Learning when technology is just part of the ecology?

Speaker: Peter Norman Levesque

President, Institute for Knowledge Mobilization

Organization:Canadian School Boards' Association

Niagara Falls

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Do we have data overload

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Acceleration and Amplification

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Big Data

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Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.

This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few.

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How did we get here?

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And are we having theneeded impact in education?

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Are we still Hunting and Gathering?

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Never in human history have we hunted for so much data, information and knowledge.

Never in human history have we gathered so much that is useful but not used.

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4000 BCE

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3000 BCE

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200

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1450

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1792

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1876

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1897

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1929

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1939

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Post WWII research expanded significantly

171945

2000

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1958 - 1969

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Advanced Research Projects Agency createdTen years later, creates the first computer network


1959 - 1971

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1959 - Peter Drucker coins the term “knowledge worker“

1962 - Everett Rogers publishes “Diffusion of Innovation”

1971 - Ray Tomlinson, of BBN sent the first network e-mail


1980 - 1993

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1982 -"The Computer" was named Machine of the Year by Time Magazine

1991 - Tim Berners-Lee invents the “World Wide Web”

1993 – Mosaic Browser popularizes the Web


Ray Kurzweil

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"When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million

times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again

be millions of times more cost effective."


Access on “Steroids”

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Google Glass

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Nanotech Cancer Treatment

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Over – Consumption?

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Email: 144 billion email per day worldwide. Websites: 624 million Users: 2.4 billion Mobile: 6.7 billion mobile subscriptionsTwitter: 175 million tweets daily averageFacebook: 1+ billion users Google: 1.2 trillion searches annuallyYouTube: 4 billion hours/month of video watchedYouth: spend less time watching TV (60%) and more time online (600%)

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Data and information is for processing.

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It becomes knowledge when it has a social life.

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Education is a socialization

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How are we thinking about

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learning?5 June 2014


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technology?5 June 2014


Significant shift in thinking about research impact

Passive push (until 1970s+)

Push harder (1990s+)

Partner & pull(2000+)

• Dissemination via traditional journals, conferences

• Focus on implementation, e.g. performance feedback

• Linkage & exchange, e.g. joint production

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Decisions are a complex calculus

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Philip Davies, Is Evidence-Based Government Possible?Jerry Lee Lecture 2004, Washington, DC

Evidence

ExperienceJudgement

Resources

Values

Habits

TraditionsLobbyists

Pressure Groups

Pragmatics

Contingency

Emotions

Other Factors

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Systems Thinking and Knowledge Mobilization

Now What: Decisions,

Directions, Actions

So What: Meaning,

Analysis, Interpretation

What: Data, Information, Description, Stories

MULTIPLE INPUTS FROM RESEARCH, PRACTICE, EXPERIENCE, CULTURE

Innovation

SupportingInfrastructure

Initiatives

Incentives to Share betweenLevels

Value Creation

ProgramsPoliciesPrioritiesProcessesPractice

ProductsPerspectivesProceduresPossibilitiesPeople Skills

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And beyond the common process of standardization or “herding cats”

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Core organizational process

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Vision Mission Goals Strategy Tactics Outputs Outcomes Impacts


Core of Value Creation is Conversation

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Increasing the scale of implementation

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Trends we are watching– Communities of Practice– Social Network Analysis– Data Visualization– Mobile and geo-location– Crowdsourcing data– Crowd-funding projects– Gamification


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We need to be creative:

In order to create the “ideal” future, you need a lot of ideas from which to choose otherwise the future tends to

look like a linear extension of what already exists.

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If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development. (Peter Drucker)

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Technology

Should support social processes.

Not the other way around.

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Open Systems Interconnection Model (OSI)

Culture • Capacity • Content • Computers • Connectivity •

Construction • Coordination

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Cultureof the school and

classroom to support innovative use of learning

tech

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Capability of teachers to use technology to help every student learn

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Curriculum, courseware, & continuous assessment

that deliver knowledge and skills to students, that build relationships

between teachers and students, and that provide meaningful and timely feedback

to students, teachers, and parents.

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Computing devices to reliably and effectively

deliver the curriculum, courseware, and

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Connectivity to reliably link students to

other students, students to teachers, and students to both their local community and the

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Co-ordination of changes to laws, funding, collective

agreement work rules, etc. to allow schools to effectively

harness the power of learning tech.

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• Start with why• Consistent and ongoing conversations• Adopt a systems perspective• One “nail” at a time• “Anchor” with principles and values• Fail fast and move to next iteration• Adapt and adopt from other sectors• Focus on the social – the tech will change

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www.knowledgemobilization.net

@peterlevesque

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