7 distinguished educators, from George Siemens and Stephen Heppell to current classroom teachers respond to this statement: This is the time between times for educators working with technology. Before mobile, ubiquitous and everyware computing become the invisible norm, but after a time when educators could sit back and wait for the digital revolution to pass on by. 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 of the educators because ...

1. 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

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

3. “It simply isn’t the 20th
century any more.
So why would we teach as
though it was?”
(Stephen Heppell, 2008)
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4. 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.

5. BEFORE...

6. Industrial Revolution...

7. Digital Age...

8. 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

9. 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.

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

11. Pre-internet/ connectivity

13. willrich
How can we teach to this room?

14. 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

15. “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

16. 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).

17. 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

18. 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.

19. 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 ...

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

21. 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.”

22. 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.”.

23. 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”.

24. 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.”

25. A clue to the missing #1 term...

26. 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.”

27. 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.

28. 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”.

29. 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.

30. Time between Times
Jonathan Nalder
Learning Support Teacher, MEd (QUT), ADE ,
Smart Classrooms Award 2009(SL)
Handheld Learning Awards 2009 finalist (UK)
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