Time Between Times Slides: the joy of educating in a time of rapid technological change

Jonathan Nalder Teacher, MEd (QUT), ADE , Smart Classrooms Teaching Award 2009 Finalist, Handheld Learning Awards 2009 (UK) Time between Times “This is the most exciting & dynamic time to be an educator of the educators because...” Image: meteotek08 Integrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership

Helena, 16 months We all need to have the mindset of a child now...

“It simply isn’t the 20th century any more. So why would we teach as though it was?” (Stephen Heppell, 2008) Image: meteotek08

This is the time between times for educators working with technology. Before mobile, ubiquitous and ‘ever yware’ computing become the invisible norm, but after a time when educators could sit back and wait for the digital revolution to pass on by.

BEFORE...

Industrial Revolution...

Digital Age...

Digital Revolution so far: C LOUD The Web/ Connectivity/ Mobilty/ Learner paradigms as timeline A.I. Semantic web Networks: ? 2015 Mainframe to Social Twitter P2P Mainframe PC to Web WiFi Time: mid-80ʼs mid-00ʼs 3.0 mid-90ʼs WWW 1.0 2.0 ʻEverywareʼ Notebook sales Ubiquitous Desktop PC overtake Desktops computing 4G M.I.D.s Laptops Smart Blackberry Palm Mobile: PDA phones email Netbooks 1G 2G 3G - converged access to cloud data / Phase 1: Computing goes mobile Phase 2: Connectivity goes Networks / services - PDAs, MP3 players, podcasting mobile - Mobile Safari, Netbooks, - one use, stand-alone Web Apps, 3G wireless broadband Virtual Primary PLE/ Schools Connectivism PLN Learner- mLearning Centeredness: eLearning

What does Digital Revolution mean for us? We need these skills to function: COMMUNICATE Mobile phone; SMS; Web MMS; 1.0 mobile email; VOIP; Twitter; 2011? NAVIGATE Mobilize: carry /access CD-ROM; anywhere anytime. Web search (closest match); Google (most-linked); Automate: setup AI functions Information literacy; to handle complexity. Interface literacy (transferable) Web Web 3.0 CREATE 2.0 CONNECT html; List-servs; Personal homepage; Forums; Blogging; Myspace; Flickr; del.icio.us.; Youtube; Facebook; Mashups Ning Twitter Chart Copyright J. Nalder 2009 Each cell covers developments from the late 1980s to today.

What’s he think of you as an educator? What does the Digital Revolution mean for students? Bob AuBuchon

Pre-internet/ connectivity

willrich How can we teach to this room?

Tullawong computer survey: Approx. 650 students surveyed Overall %ʼs per Question: 100 1. Computer? 90 2. Use Computer? 2B. Use twice/w? 80 3. Internet? 70 4. Use Internet? 4B. Use net twice/w? 60 5. Mobile Phone? 50 5B. Internet on mobile? 6. Other mobile device? 40 30 20 10 Qs 0

“Using a $US77 Nikon Coolpix and a $US60 latex balloon ﬁlled with helium, plus some homemade electronics like a timer and gps attachment, a team of teenage students captured these remarkable shots from 32km above the Earth's surface.” Image: meteotek08

But Education has not kept up with the digital revolution... “The biggest question about technology and schools in the 21st century is not so much ‘What can it do?’ but, rather, ‘When will it get to do it?’” (Marc Prensky, 2008).

The US commerce department ranked 55 industry sectors by their level of IT - intensiveness. Education came last, after coal mining. Dumagan, Gill, Ingram, 2003 Education cannot keep up with the pace of change in technology. For the ﬁrst time in Western history most end-users probably have better leisure access to technology (through mobile phones, game devices & computers etc.) than in many of the institutions we work & learn. Stuart Smith 2009

Lets look at this perspective instead: This is the time between times for educators working with technology. Before mobile, ubiquitous and ‘ever yware’ computing become the invisible norm, but after a time when educators could sit back and wait for the digital revolution to pass on by.

Proposition to overcome negativity: As slow as some in education have been to respond to rapid technological change, this is however the most exciting and dynamic time to be an educator because ...

Word cloud of responses from 7 educators: The number one term is missing... ? ?????

RESPONSES: Dr Tony Karrer, USA CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web & eLearning development ﬁrm http://elearningtech.blogspot.com “Educators today are in the midst of one of the most interesting transformations where individual knowledge becomes devalued, but the ability to teach new metacognitive tools and methods is more important than ever.”

RESPONSES: Professor Stephen Heppell, U.K. Founder, Ultralab and Think.com, Educational Futures consultant www.heppell.net “We have moved from the ﬂat start of technological progression's exponential curve to the steep part ... All the old certainties of a last century world of factory schools with formulaic rigours of "met before" learning have palpably failed to meet the needs of a world full of surprises and the unexpected. It's the death of factory education and the dawn of learning.”.

RESPONSES: George Siemens, Canada. Founder of ‘Connectivism’, Associate Director with the Learning Technologies Centre (University of Manitoba) www.elearnspace.org “I believe that we are seeing, in educational t e c h n o l o g y, a r a r e c o n v e r g e n c e o f technological transformation and ideological development. The future of education will be shaped by those who are able to anticipate & understand the impact of the dual forces of social learning & participative technology”.

RESPONSES: Shane Roberts, Gold Coast, Australia. Secondary HPE teacher, and Advanced Pedagogical Licence holder http://shanetechteach.edublogs.org “This could be a time considered for preparation for anywhere, anytime learning ... Change is an exciting process, for me in par ticular as it means trial and experimentation are welcomed. Less effective or productive practices can be discovered, trialled and reported on without fear of being labeled incompetent – as long as learning is achieved and demonstrated.”

A clue to the missing #1 term...

RESPONSES: Tony Vincent, USA. Former teacher, now trainer and mLearning education consultant www.learninginhand.com “What I love even more than teaching is learning. And in the changing digital and social landscape, I get to learn constantly and reinforce my learning by sharing it with others.”

RESPONSES: Emma Heffernan, Australia Manager Discovery Programs, eLearning Branch, Education Queensland “Technology is a great democratiser of education. It is no longer expected that educators hold the knowledge to impar t to their learners ... For the ﬁrst time in history students and teachers are consciously playing the same role; we are all learners.

RESPONSES: Toni Twiss, NZ Former teacher, now a director of eLearning for secondary schools and lecturer at Waikato University http://tonitwiss.com “We have to rekindle our passion for learning. As teachers it is a time to remember what it feels like to be a learner ... We are put in the shoes of the very students we teach as we explore and exper iment with the potential of new technologies, and perhaps most importantly, reconstruct and refresh understanding of our own pedagogy and practice rather than just doing what we have always done”.

And the winner is - LEARNING. This was far and away the main thing that excited our educators about being a teacher right now - Learning is being returned to the centre of education.

Time between Times Jonathan Nalder Learning Support Teacher, MEd (QUT), ADE , Smart Classrooms Award 2009(SL) Handheld Learning Awards 2009 ﬁnalist (UK) Twitter: @jnxyz - jnxyz@mac.com - http://uLearning.edublogs.org ONLINE RESOUCES: http://www.evernote.com/pub/jnxyz/timebetweentimes

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