Purpose of education

1. The Purpose
of Education
JONARD A. TAURO, RN
http://static.guim.co.uk

3. www.students.ou.edu

4. knowledge
or wisdom?
http://slated.org

5. Surface Learning
Deep Learning
Marton and Säljö (1976)

6. Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
Transformation
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7. Knowledge
Wisdom
Transformation
http://slated.org
Knowing that
Knowing how
Knowing why
Knowledge
Application
Analysis
Evaluation
Declarative
Procedural
Critical
Synthesis
Comprehension

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/specialkrb/2772991999

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/specialkrb/2772991999
Tom Wagner (Harvard University)
• Critical thinking/Problem solving
• Leadership and vision
• Agility/Adaptability
• Initiative/Entrepreneurial
• Effective Communication Skills
• Access and Analysis of Information
• Curiosity/Imagination
Skills Needed to be Successful

10. The goal of education
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
“If you think education is expensive
… try ignorance.”
– Derek Bok

11. What’s the best thing about school?
– my friends

12. What’s the worst thing about school?
– being treated like you’re an idiot

15. Doctors save lives.
Teachers make lives.

17. The Goal of Education
“The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while
producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners
that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of
the world. Education is about teaching students, not
subjects.” – Dave Truss
http://ucsbvrc.files.wordpress.com

18. Goals of Education:
 Topreparechildrenforcitizenship
 Tocultivateaskilledworkforce
 Toteachculturalliteracy
 Tohelpstudentsbecomecriticalthinkers
 Tohelpstudentscompeteinaglobalmarketplace

19. “Education allows children to
develop the skills and
confidence they need to
strengthen their societies,
break the cycle of poverty and
build peace in their
communities.”
- Save the Children
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

21. “We all need to
care more about
how the children of
the world are
being educated.”
(Steve Wheeler
Learning with ‘e’s:
February 2010)

22. Does education need transformation?
Source: Chambers English Dictionary
"In large states
public education
will always be
mediocre, for the
same reason that in
large kitchens the
cooking is usually
bad."
- Nietzsche
http://www.swissinfo.ch/media
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

23. Factory education model?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010
Synchronisation
Batch processing
Compartmentalisation
Standardisation

24. Personalised Learning?
http://www.delasallewaterford.com
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

26. Education is changing for young people
as they experience self-directed learning,
(mostly outside school) about things that
interest them.
Source: http://community.learningobjects.com
http://flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/416206133/
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

27. Young people’s out-
of-school
experiences with
technology can
mean that students
find the presentation
of school curriculum
less challenging, less
relevant and less
engaging.
Source: http://community.learningobjects.com
http://encefalus.com/
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

28. “For the first time
we are preparing
students for a
future we cannot
clearly describe.”
– David Warlick
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010
http://www.leics.gov.uk

29. The pace of
change is
accelerating
How will we
keep up
with it?

30. Transformation…
• …to change
people or things
completely,
especially
improving their
appearance or
usefulness
• …to convert one
form of energy
to another
http://katmaund.blogspot.com/
Source: Banksy
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

31. Fair measures?
Assessment of, or for, learning?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenhester/3901158717/

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39. Ipsative assessment

40. "In the times of rapid
change, learners
inherit the Earth,
while the learned find
themselves
beautifully equipped
to deal with a world
that no longer exists."
- Eric Hoffer washingtonrebel.typepad.com

41. We don't need
to reform the
system. We
need to replace
the system.
~ Alvin Toffler
www.strategy-business.com

42. Learning Styles?
“There are as many learning styles as
there are people.”
– Wheeler (2009)
http://fluorescentflicker.files.wordpress.com
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

43. VAK model
Visual Seeing and reading
Auditory Hearing and speaking
Kinaesthetic Touching and doing

44. Multi-modal learning...?
Auditory
Visual Kinaesthetic

45. ...or Confucius repurposed?
Auditory
Visual Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand

46. Situated Learning
Auditory
Visual Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand
Cognition
Memory Meta Cognition
Deeper
Learning

47. Education – drawing
out the potential of
each individual
(Educere)
I cannot teach
anyone. All I
can do is make
them think.

49. “We need
diversity of
thought in the
world to face the
new challenges.”
- Sir Tim Berners-Leewww.topnews.in
Here are some strategies to consider…

50. “You can be
imaginative all day
long and never do
anything. To be
creative you have to
do something.
Creativity is applied
imagination”.
– Sir Ken Robinson
http://www.wizdomeducation.com
Be creative

51. Join all nine dots using four straight lines. Do not
take your pen from the paper and do not go back
over any lines.

52. Thinking outside the box

53. A man enters a field with an unopened
package and dies. Why?

54. A man enters a field with an unopened
package and dies. Why?

55. Look for the teachable moments
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57. All learning
begins when our
comfortable
ideas turn out to
be inadequate.
- John Dewey
http://www.dancinghearts.org
Step outside your comfort zone

59. Get yourself a vision
“It’s not easy
being blind, but it
must be tragic
when you can see,
but you have no
vision.”
- Helen Kellerhttp://www.aph.org/hall_fame/images/keller4.jpg

60. Positive Deviance
“Somewhere in your
organization, groups of
people are already doing
things differently and
better. To create lasting
change, find areas of
positive deviance and
fan their flames.”
- Pascale & Sternin
(Harvard Business Review)

61. http://limpa-vias.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
Don’t limit a child to
your own learning,
for he was born in
another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

63. What will it take to
transform education?

64. Go and be crazy