Talk given at the Cape Town Scrum Gathering on 23 October, 2013. Be part of the change! Anybody with a Scrum or Agile background can help bring change to our education system.

1. Maritza van den Heuvel
Beyond Agile – Tales of Continuous Improvement
http://scrumfamily.wordpress.com
@maritzavdh

2. Linguistics
Research
Technical Writing
Testing
Support
Product Owner
Product Manager

3. to change the way people
work, we need to change
the way they learn
~ Maritza ~

4. workplace learning

5. from training (push) ...
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Documentation Management ( 2003)
Knowledge Management
Class-room or f2f training
Blended Learning = eLearning
Training or HR Departments
Training as "Event" or "Intervention"

7. ... to learning (pull)
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Just-in-time learning
Byte-sized learning chunks
Blended = Program of Learning (f2f, chat, online
discussion, co-creation)
L& D or Learning Departments
Continuous Learning as Skill
Personal Learning Networks ... social learning, peer
content and communities, finding over remembering

8. Challenges:
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New workers (graduates) and matriculants
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Study to Pass, rather than Learning to Learn
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Management view of Training vs Learning
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Teams haven’t known anything else

9. Prevailing Culture
- Linear hierarchies
- Top-down decision-making
- Accepting a given system, not creating it

11. Culture is Everything (nom nom)
Organizations (Changing)
Society/Economy (Changing a Lot)
Education (Not Changing Enough)

12. The Long Game
Disrupting and Reinventing
Education to Create a
Foundation for
Life-long Learning and
Continuous Improvement
(Sir Ken Robinson)

13. #agile
#lean
#rightshifting
#scrum

14. Just as waterfall managers find it
impossible to control projects, teachers
find it impossible to control kids.
Scrum is designed to solve this
problem.
~ Jeff Sutherland ~
http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com/2012/04/scrum-future-for-education.html

15. What does that look like?

16. tangible visible simple fun

17. http://iamagile.com

18. photo: Karthik Chandrasekarial

19. "Glows, Grows, Throws, Knows Reflection" by John Miller, Agile Schools

20. http://eduscrum.nl/

22. deep principles

23. PDCA for Individuals
"seeing the system" - lack of contextual awareness,
lack of ability to change things, waiting for somebody to
tell me the answer ~ Bob Marshall
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observing - seeing the work honestly
questioning - interrogating the work
applying - courage to try something new
evaluate - interpret and adjust

24. "we need to teach students
to teach themselves"
#ictinhed 18/3/2013

25. People Doing It Already
 The Agile School (US)
 eduScrum (NL)
 Marian Willeke (HED)
 Thinking Schools SA

26. What can YOU do?
 Adopt a School/Teacher/Class
 Help them Solve Problems
 Teach your practise
 Showcase your results
 Be part of the change
 The earlier we begin …

28. Thank You
Maritza van den Heuvel
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@maritzavdh #edtech #agile #lean
http://scrumfamily.wordpress.com
Beyond Agile - Tales of Continuous Improvement
Innovation Lab Director: PSA