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Shaping the Future: What's Inside the Box?
Professor Mark Brown's presentation discusses the concept of 'unboxing' in education, emphasizing that new technologies alone cannot transform learning environments. He critiques 'boxed thinking' and highlights the need to confront various narratives and interests within educational stakeholders. Brown concludes that education shapes future perceptions, stressing the importance of understanding these future implications to avoid potential harm to learners.
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- 1. Professor Mark Brown DublinCity University 16 December 2020 Shaping the Future: What’s inside the Box?
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- 4. a) Trying tofind lost items in storage b) Something that happens on YouTube c) Unwrapping a piece of new technology d) Unpacking after moving to another house e) None of the above
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- 7. 1. Boxed thinking 2.Many different boxes 3. Breaking out of the box Outline….
- 8. “The light comesthrough the gaps”
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- 15. “You can’t justunbox something and expect the latest shiny new thing will transform education because it looks or sounds good”
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- 23. Different interest groups andstakeholders are borrowing the same ‘languages of persuasion’ to legitimize very different agenda
- 24. Education in Change Education for Change Navigating Through EntangledNarratives Future Faker
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- 34. • 1 newuniversity each day • 7 new universities per week • 365 new universities per year • 10,950 new universities over 30 years = 30K students = 210K students = 11M students = 329M students
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- 43. “All education springsfrom images of the future and all education creates images of the future.
- 44. “All education springsfrom images of the future and all education creates images of the future. Thus all education, whether so intended or not, is a preparation for the future. Unless we understand the future for which we are preparing we may do tragic damage to those we teach” (Toffler, 1974).
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