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Derek Wenmoth Director, eLearning Core Education Ltd [email_address] ICT and the future of Education

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Thinking digitally… <ul><li>Phone (obviously) </li></ul><ul><li>Appointments Calendar </li></ul><ul><li>Alarm Clock </li></ul><ul><li>Game device </li></ul><ul><li>Music player </li></ul><ul><li>Still Camera </li></ul><ul><li>Video Camera </li></ul><ul><li>Video player </li></ul><ul><li>Address Book </li></ul><ul><li>To Do List Reminder </li></ul><ul><li>Voice Recorder </li></ul><ul><li>Calculator </li></ul><ul><li>Email Tool </li></ul><ul><li>Text Messenger </li></ul><ul><li>Satellite Navigation System (ref: GPSXC .) </li></ul>

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The Digital World <ul><li>Think of the communications technologies that are “taken for granted” now that weren’t around when you were at school…. </li></ul>

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New Tools <ul><li>Pen </li></ul><ul><li>Chalkboard/ Whiteboard </li></ul><ul><li>Banda </li></ul><ul><li>Gestetner </li></ul><ul><li>16mm projector </li></ul><ul><li>Slide shows </li></ul><ul><li>Telephone </li></ul><ul><li>Fax </li></ul><ul><li>Library </li></ul>Then Now Next? <ul><li>Txting/Pxting </li></ul><ul><li>Blogs/Wikis </li></ul><ul><li>Pod/Vod-casting </li></ul><ul><li>Data projector </li></ul><ul><li>LMS </li></ul><ul><li>IM/SMS </li></ul><ul><li>Digital cameras </li></ul><ul><li>iMovie </li></ul><ul><li>Google </li></ul><ul><li>Peer2peer networks </li></ul><ul><li>Virtual reality </li></ul><ul><li>Wearable computers </li></ul><ul><li>Ubiquitous identity </li></ul><ul><li>Voice recognition </li></ul><ul><li>Agents and avitars </li></ul><ul><li>Visualisation </li></ul><ul><li>Miniaturisation </li></ul><ul><li>Reusable paper </li></ul><ul><li>Semantic web </li></ul><ul><li>PLEs </li></ul>Analog Digital Connected Ubiquitous

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21st Century Skills <ul><li>Digital-Age Literacy </li></ul><ul><li>* Basic, scientific, economic, and technological literacies </li></ul><ul><li>* Visual and information literacies </li></ul><ul><li>* Multicultural literacy and global awareness </li></ul><ul><li>Inventive Thinking </li></ul><ul><li>* Adaptability and managing complexity </li></ul><ul><li>* Self-direction </li></ul><ul><li>* Curiosity, creativity, and risk taking </li></ul><ul><li>* Higher-order thinking and sound reasoning </li></ul><ul><li>Effective Communication </li></ul><ul><li>* Teaming, collaboration, and interpersonal skills </li></ul><ul><li>* Personal, social, and civic responsibility </li></ul><ul><li>* Interactive communication </li></ul><ul><li>High Productivity </li></ul><ul><li>* Prioritizing, planning, and managing for results </li></ul><ul><li>* Effective use of real-world tools </li></ul><ul><li>* Ability to produce relevant, high-quality products </li></ul>http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skill21.htm

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What the US public thinks <ul><li>http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/ </li></ul>

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NZ Key Competencies <ul><li>Thinking: Intellectual curiosity is at the heart of this competency. </li></ul><ul><li>Using language, symbols, and texts: confidently use ICT to access and provide information and to communicate with others </li></ul><ul><li>Managing self: know when to lead, when to follow, and when and how to act independently. </li></ul><ul><li>Relating to others: includes the ability to listen actively, recognise different points of view, negotiate, and share ideas. </li></ul><ul><li>Participating and contributing: includes a capacity to contribute appropriately as a group member, to make connections with others, and to create opportunities for others in the group. </li></ul>http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/the_new_zealand_curriculum/key_competencies

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What do learners do online? <ul><li>Once they were… </li></ul><ul><li>Consumers </li></ul><ul><li>Now they are… </li></ul><ul><li>Creators </li></ul><ul><li>Contributors </li></ul><ul><li>Communicators </li></ul><ul><li>Collaborators </li></ul><ul><li>Coordinators </li></ul><ul><li>In an “architecture of participation” </li></ul>

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Consumers <ul><li>Encyclopedias </li></ul><ul><li>How Stuff Works </li></ul><ul><li>Google </li></ul>

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Creators <ul><li>Text - NeoOffice, OpenOffice </li></ul><ul><li>Graphics - ArtRage, GIMP, GBModelpro </li></ul><ul><li>Sound - Audacity, GarageBand </li></ul><ul><li>Video - iMovie, MovieMaker </li></ul><ul><li>Games - Scratch Alice </li></ul><ul><li>Web pages/sites - Nvu, iWeb </li></ul>

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Contributors <ul><li>Blog Comments </li></ul><ul><li>Wikipedia </li></ul><ul><li>Flickr </li></ul><ul><li>YouTube </li></ul>

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Communicators <ul><li>Blogs </li></ul><ul><li>Podcasts </li></ul><ul><li>Email </li></ul><ul><li>SMS </li></ul><ul><li>Twitter </li></ul><ul><li>Skype - AC, VC, chat </li></ul><ul><li>MySpace, Bebo </li></ul>

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Collaborators <ul><li>Wikis </li></ul><ul><li>GoogleDocs </li></ul><ul><li>Frappr </li></ul><ul><li>43 things </li></ul>

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Coordinators <ul><li>NetVibes </li></ul><ul><li>PageFlakes </li></ul><ul><li>MySpace, Bebo </li></ul><ul><li>Flock </li></ul><ul><li>Del.icio.us </li></ul><ul><li>Bloglines </li></ul><ul><li>Tagging </li></ul>

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2020 & Beyond… <ul><li>To what extent are we prepared, as a society and as educators, for the massive changes in human capabilities that digital technologies are likely to enable in the next 13 years? </li></ul><ul><li>To what extent are our future visions for education based upon assumptions about humanity, society and technology that are no longer valid? </li></ul><ul><li>To what extent can we, as educators, help to shape the developments of technology in order to enhance human development? </li></ul>

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Future School Site <ul><li>What would kids learn? </li></ul><ul><li>How would they learn? </li></ul><ul><li>When would they learn? </li></ul><ul><li>Who would they learn with? </li></ul><ul><li>When would they learn? </li></ul><ul><li>What would they learn on or with? </li></ul><ul><li>Where would they learn? </li></ul><ul><li>How will they/we know what they’ve learned? </li></ul><ul><li>Who decides? </li></ul>

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Two key questions… <ul><li>Education in the Future: </li></ul><ul><li>What will our schools be like? </li></ul><ul><li>Where will learning occur? </li></ul><ul><li>What will be the role of teachers? </li></ul><ul><li>What technology will be used? </li></ul>Education for the Future: What must we be doing today to ensure that our students are equipped with the skills and knowledge required to function in the world of tomorrow?

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Future Skills

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From the US… <ul><li>The top ten in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004 </li></ul><ul><li>We are preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist </li></ul><ul><li>Using technologies that haven’t been invented </li></ul><ul><li>In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet. </li></ul>

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Tech Futures <ul><li>Advanced networks </li></ul><ul><li>Interoperability/connectivity </li></ul><ul><li>Personalisation/customization </li></ul><ul><li>Miniaturization </li></ul><ul><li>Mobile devices </li></ul><ul><li>Convergence/Mashups </li></ul><ul><li>LMS/SMS/OLE </li></ul><ul><li>Web2.0 - social networking </li></ul><ul><li>Semantic web </li></ul><ul><li>Visualisation </li></ul><ul><li>3D Immersive environments </li></ul>

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3D immersive environments <ul><li>“ Spore” - game based on procedural methods </li></ul><ul><li>MellaniuM” - 3D graphical environments generated ‘on-the-fly”. </li></ul>

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New forms of interface <ul><li>“ Touch” technology - the Apple iPhone </li></ul><ul><li>“ Multi-touch” technology - Microsoft’s ‘table’, surface computing. </li></ul>

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Think about it… <ul><li>“The only people who call technology “technology”, are those who were born before it was invented” </li></ul><ul><li>(Source unknown) </li></ul>

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New Thinking <ul><li>What are the ideas about knowledge, mind, and learning that inform your current thinking about how you teach and how schools should be organised? </li></ul><ul><li>Ref: Jane Gilbert (2005) Catching the Knowledge Wave - NZCER </li></ul>

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Knowledge <ul><li>Knowledge is “stuff” </li></ul><ul><li>It can be stored - in minds, books or other kinds of databases </li></ul><ul><li>Knowledge is true, correct, “the facts” </li></ul><ul><li>It is something stable that accumulates slowly over time; new knowledge builds on older knowledge </li></ul><ul><li>It is built up by people, and people can “have” it, however, it exists objectively, independently of people </li></ul><ul><li>There are different branches of knowledge called disciplines or subjects </li></ul><ul><li>Each discipline has its own way of doing things </li></ul>

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Minds <ul><li>Minds are like containers (filing cabinets or databases), they store knowledge </li></ul><ul><li>Minds also process knowledge; they take it in, organise it and represent it </li></ul><ul><li>Minds are the places where thinking and learning happen </li></ul><ul><li>Some minds have more capacity than other minds for storing and processing knowledge </li></ul><ul><li>The mind is located in the brain, but its activities are distinct from the brain’s other functions </li></ul>

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Learning <ul><li>Learning is the process by which knowledge gets stored in minds </li></ul><ul><li>Learning is an individual activity: it takes place in individual minds </li></ul><ul><li>Learning is an activity that happens in more or less the same way in all individuals </li></ul><ul><li>Learners of the same age (or stage of development) will be ready for the same kinds of knowledge at the same time </li></ul><ul><li>Learning is easier if the knowledge to be learned is broken down into parts and introduced as a series of steps. </li></ul>

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Thankyou <ul><li>Derek Wenmoth </li></ul><ul><li>Director, eLearning </li></ul><ul><li>CORE Education Ltd </li></ul><ul><li>[email_address] </li></ul><ul><li>http://blog.core-ed.net/derek </li></ul>