Educational Shift Happens by Nick Page. This was presented on 03 March 2010 at 'Building Spaces for the Future' an event drawing on recent research by Futurelab about young people’s view of what learning spaces should look like in the future to offer practical support to Local Authorities, schools and those going through building programmes such as BSF and PCP. http://www.futurelab.org.uk/events/listing/buildingspaces

1. Education- Systems Change The frontline of learning is not the classroom, but the bedroom and the living room. Our education system’s biggest untapped resource is the children themselves. Leadbeater, 2005 “ ”

2. Spot The Difference? Historically, education has been dispensed to children on mass, according to pre-established government guidelines and benchmarks .

3. Are children being processed by a impersonal educational machines? ACHIEVE ACHIEVE . ACHIEVE . ACHIEVE . ACHIEVE . ACHIEVE . ACHIEVE .

6. The Learner Parents and Families Peers and Friends Extended Family Teachers and School Mass Media Community “ Children learn better when they have the right relationships. Those relationships motivate them to learn; engage then to be participants in learning Leadbeater, 2008 ” What makes learning successful? Based on Brofenbrenner’s (1979) ecological model.

7. “ Children learn better when they have the right relationships. Those relationships motivate them to learn; engage then to be participants in learning. ” BUT did you know.... Today, we spend 40% less time with our children than we did in 1965. What makes learning successful? Based on Brofenbrenner’s (1979) ecological model. The Learner Parents and families Peers and friends Extended family Teachers and school Mass Media Community

8. If you see 30 children sitting and listening to the teacher in uniformity , but doing nothing....

9. we call it LEARNING!

12. Personalisation Self-directed Support Individual Budgets Personal Budgets Direct Payments Personalisation The process by which state provided services can be adapted to suit students. In Children’s Services this means everyone having choice and control over the shape of their support along with a greater emphasis on prevention and early intervention. Self-directed Support A change to the way Children’s Services operates to give students choice, control and power over the support they receive. Direct Payments A cash payment paid directly to the student to enable them to organise their own support, rather than having support directed from the council. Individual Budgets A clear up-front allocation of money that can combine several funding options that students can use to design and purchase support from the public, private and voluntary sector. Personal Budgets Like a Individual Budget but solely made up of multi-agency funding.

13. Systems Change More to students, families, learning and networks. To schools, LA’s and school groups Funding More real world learning. Schools/ centres as productive units. In classrooms, from books/whiteboards/ 1 dimensional technology. How? All the time in different periods that are relevant to individual styles of learning-developing a competency based curriculum. In school terms and hours. The lesson. When/ Where? Interaction, collaboration & innovation. More learning by doing and discovery. Making greater use of technologies for learning. Instruction Learning mode Teachers, parents, other skilled adults, peers and social networks. Teachers Source In schools, cultural centres, businesses, learning shops and free space. Mainly in schools Place Future Past Learning Feature

14. Education for the future?! Founded in 2002 by author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari. 826 Valencia is dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 via project based workshops at times to suit students- in school, after school, evenings, weekends and during school holidays.

16. Conclusion How do we as a society challenge existing belief systems to create different types of school, based on new kinds of community led learning initiatives? How is a new system of education based on entrepreneurship to be fostered? Is there now a question to be asked, as a social society, should we be fundamentally enabling learning as we know it to change its shape? Final Thoughts... How far do we take the personalisation agenda?