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- 2. Струга 08-09 Април 2017 Third Educonference НА НАСТАВНИЦИ И ИНФОРМАТИЧАРИ Минатото, сегашноста и иднината на Школата The Past, Present & Future of the School John Connell
- 4. Струга 08-09 Април 2017 Third Educonference НА НАСТАВНИЦИ И ИНФОРМАТИЧАРИ Минатото, сегашноста и иднината на Школата The Past, Present & Future of the School John Connell @I_Am_Learner
- 5. “Philosophy...always comes on the scene too late..… When philosophy paints its gray in gray, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy’s gray in gray it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood.” GWF Hegel
- 6. Alan Kay “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” The Dynabook
- 7. Who Am I?
- 9. A Private Cloud for Scottish Education.... ....that opened the world to Scotland’s learners!
- 11. Discovery Kit Video Technology Secure Platform for Teachers Bespoke Consultancy & Adoption Programme for Schools/Colleges
- 16. How Should we Think about Education?
- 17. Education is… …one of the humanities Digital
- 20. Plato Plato Education is “the turning of the whole personality in the direction of the light” Education for Enlightenment
- 21. Aristotle Aristotle The object of our enquiry is not to know what goodness is, but to become good ourselves! Ethical Education
- 22. Learning from the Past
- 23. If we ignore the Past, we cannot understand the Present, or forecast the Future!
- 24. The Long History of the School Ancient Rome Bucharest, Romania (1842) Glasgow, Scotland, 1890sPrimary School, SkopjePrimary School, SkopjePrimary School, Skopje
- 25. Comenius (John Amos Komensky) • Parents play an important role in encouraging children to go to school • Teacher must be kind, like a good parent, treat children with respect • School building should be light and airy and cheerful, well equipped • Subjects must be taught at a level that allows all children to learn • Pedagogy should be ‘natural’, use of storytelling encouraged • Authorities should set public examinations and reward merit Comenius
- 26. Why has the School Persisted for So Long?
- 28. • Malleable • Resilient • Durable • Appropriated by each culture & ideology • Has sustained every type of human society • Served to propagate, maintain and reproduce each society • Pliant to dominant doctrines The School Through the Ages ….BUT…!
- 29. The material that schools have to work with is not so pliant! Us! You and me…and everyone else!
- 30. RF Mackenzie “Education is an old ramshackle windmill that goes on flapping its great arms long after the miller has left.”
- 32. • The economy demanded mass - production of learning • Information was scarce • The curriculum was centrally determined • Key sources of information were controlled by an elite • Teachers were seen as the founts of knowledge • Pedagogy meant ‘knowledge transfer’
- 33. So much has changed...... • We are building an extraordinary infrastructure to enable us to communicate across time and space.... • We are more and more capable of solving problems that once seemed intractable….. Ron Burnett
- 34. • We are researching the very basis of life.... • We have gained insights into the way the brain works... • And we are gaining insights into our cultural, social, spiritual and economic connections to the environment..... Ron Burnett
- 35. And yet so much remains the same.... ...a core element of what education was always about has remained untouched in the midst of these upheavals. Ron Burnett
- 36. Learning Reflection, Sense-Making, Expertise, Knowledge- Building PLATFORM Digital + Social + Educational Within the Walls Local Community, Classroom- Based, Hierarchical, Instructional Design Cultural Relevance Protecting Values, Culture, Principles, Social Stability Traditional Pedagogy Knowledge Transfer, Content, Teacher as Subject Expert Non-Traditional Pedagogy Collaboration, Network Learning, Connections, Teacher as co-Learner Beyond the Walls Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Participation, Self-Learning, Distance Learning Pervasive Technology, WWW, Ubiquitous Networks, New Skills 21st Century Context
- 37. Pedagogy & Purpose in Education
- 38. “Pedagogical theory is not only technical but cultural, ideological and political. If it is to have any impact, it must be self-consciously all of these.” Jerome Bruner
- 39. Paulo Freire on Pedagogy....
- 40. ...learners are active participants and co- constructors of knowledge... Paulo Freire
- 41. Paulo Freire ...learning should be meaningful & purposeful to the learners... Paulo Freire
- 42. ...learning should have a critical focus! Paulo Freire
- 43. Ivan Illich on the Purpose of Education...
- 44. Ivan Illich “A good education system should have three purposes...”
- 45. “It should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives....” Ivan Illich
- 46. “It should empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them....” Ivan Illich
- 47. “It should furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known...” Ivan Illich
- 48. How is Learning & Teaching Changing?
- 49. “…used throughout the 19th C in nearly all classrooms…” Edudemic
- 50. Developing risk-takers / innovators Learning with the whole world Strengthening Social Cohesion Creating Autonomous Learners Recognizing 21st Century Realities “Technology is changing the way we live, communicate and learn.” “It enables educators to re-frame education to meet the needs of 21st century learners!” Greg Whitby
- 51. A Moment of Interplay…
- 52. The learner....is increasingly free to learn what, when, how, with whom he or she wants, and for whatever reason he or she decides. A Wall Mural in Soweto, South Africa
- 53. Naturally tech-adept Great at multi-tasking ‘Google Generation’ Instinctive Social Networker Lives in the WebA Straw Man! The Relationship between Young People and Technology? The Digital Native!
- 54. The Digital Native! Tech oriented…but… They will multi-task! Google Gen…but… Friendship Networker Lives on the phone? The Reality!
- 55. iTunes U podcast TelePresence session Skype with Peers Virtual lab Video phone call Facebook Social Media Feeds Wikipedia YouTube Expert blog RSS Twitter Community Twitter Botany community Fauna community Primate community Chemistry community MIT chemistry club Chemist broadcast session Class lecture VOD National museum virtual collection International library virtual collection Museum virtual tour Museum click- to-talk Digital library Open courseware Game Alerts vBlog GPS to meeting International newspaper feed Classroom lecture National newspaper feed IM scientistGovernment research organization Newsletter Expert Website TP Call Increasingly Self-Directed Learning! The Connected Learner
- 56. Search Social Networks VC / TP Curation Direct Teachers, Lecturers, Students, Visiting Experts etc. Information, Scholarly Data, Research, Review Data, etc News, Blogs, Information sources, Access to subject experts, collaboration with peers, other universities, etc Complex collaboration, personal learning networks, personal learning environments The Connected Learner xMOOCs, cMOOCs, OER, Free Courseware, Online LecturesOpen Learning
- 57. Young people across the world today are possibly less bound by received wisdom than any generation in history.
- 60. Knowledge: from Scarcity to Abundance
- 61. Cornucopia Discrimination Needed Curation Self-Directed Our relationship to data, information & knowledge Scarcity Controlled Access Externally Determined Constricted Choice Spoon-Fed in the pastnow!
- 62. Learner Control Teacher Control Criticality of Teacher Role ➤ ➤ ➤ Where is the Locus of Control? 4 Age / Years of Schooling LevelofControloverLearning Age / Years of Schooling Education in the past? Today?
- 63. Where is the Locus of Control? 4 LevelofControloverLearning Age / Years of Schooling ? Education in the Future?
- 64. The Network is the School!
- 65. How do we LEARN in an increasingly INTERCONNECTED world?How do we LEARN in an increasingly INTERCONNECTED world?
- 66. Education is being displaced from its traditional confines of institutions to a generalized form of learning that can take place anytime and anyplace Pithamber Polsani
- 67. ...a form of education whose site of production, circulation and consumption is the network... Pithamber Polsani
- 68. Knowledge is created... Knowledge is grown... Knowledge is personal... Knowledge is socially mediated... Knowledge is making connections.... Knowledge is recognizing patterns... Knowledge is perception... Knowledge is not simply what is absorbed and memorised… Downes & Siemens
- 69. Connectivity Diversity Openness Autonomy Learning on the Network requires…
- 70. Networks Network Values Work Unlearning Learning Environment Learning Web Technologies Platform social, interconnected, ever faster, long tail, anti-authoritarian sense-making, conversation, storytelling, collaboration, reflection, mimicry, know-how, performance support collective intelligence, it’s all of us, multi-way, innovation, bottom-up, participatory, self-starting interconnections, speed, volatility, self-organization, ubiquity, perpetual flow, CONVIVIAL? changing values, a changing world, what no longer works connections, transparency, beta forever, intangibles, peer production interoperable, open id, the cloud, loose coupling, cross-device blogs, wikis, tags, links, video, search, open APIs, widgets, social media +IoT, IPv6, etc From an Original Idea by Jay Cross
- 71. The Classroom is Mobile!
- 72. More than 500,000 new connections to the internet every single day
- 73. The majority of these new connections are made with a mobile device, most commonly a smartphone.
- 74. Currently, for every laptop or desktop connected to the internet, there are two mobile devices.
- 75. Today there are 3.6 billion internet users 40% of the world online 1st billion 2005 2nd billion 2010 3rd billion 2014
- 76. LTE Network Growth (4G) = 250% per annum 5G on the horizon: “thousands of times faster than 4G”
- 78. Jared Diamond The crux of success or failure is to know which core values to hold on to, and which to discard or replace when times change.
- 79. Ivan Illich
- 80. Ivan Illich …individual freedom realized in personal interdependence and, as such, an intrinsic ethical value… Conviviality: I intend it to mean autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment.
- 81. Ivan Illich …. a society, in which modern technologies serve politically interrelated individuals rather than managers…. Illich defined a society based on convivial tools as:
- 82. “individual freedom realized in personal interdependence”
- 83. I Am Learner Conviviality Conviviality & Play iamlearner.net
- 84. We learn individually but… • we depend on others as we learn! • and others depend on us as they learn! Conviviality
- 85. We are autonomous learners, but we are at our most creative in association with others and with our environment Conviviality
- 92. Freedom to be creative & productive on their own terms Conviviality
- 93. Freedom to Direct their own Learning… Conviviality …and great teachers who will help them do so effectively! …and great teachers who will help them do so effectively!
- 94. Convivial Learning Vision & Challenges Education for All Ensure Equity in Access to Education Knowledge, Skills & Attitudes for ICT Critical Thinking & Moral Reasoning Social Cohesion in a Diverse Society Social Mobility Social Inclusion Human Capital Development Build a Competent Workforce Effective Governance of Education Deliver High Quality Education for All Build a Diverse & Tolerant Society Develop Digital Literacy Create Effective Citizenship Typical Architecture Core Network Data Centre Collaborative Platform Learning Platform Video Collaboration Authentication & Security
- 95. Convivial Learning Vision & Challenges Education for All Ensure Equity in Access to Education Knowledge, Skills & Attitudes for ICT Critical Thinking & Moral Reasoning Social Cohesion in a Diverse Society Social Mobility Social Inclusion Human Capital Development Build a Competent Workforce Effective Governance of Education Deliver High Quality Education for All Build a Diverse & Tolerant Society Develop Digital Literacy Create Effective Citizenship Core Network Data Centre Collaborative Platform Learning Platform Video Collaboration Authentication & Security
- 98. The future is already here..... ....it’s William Gibson “Neuromancer” just not evenly distributed!
- 99. Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- 100. Richard Feynman “To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven.... ...the same key opens the gates of hell.”
- 101. johnconnell@iamlearner.net @I_Am_Learner iamlearner.net consult.iamlearner.net consult.iamlearner.net/irisconnect Email: Twitter: Blog: Website IRIS Connect Thank You!ти благодарам! Let’s Continue the Conversation…