This document discusses future-focused education and what it may look like. It explores how the digital learner has changed expectations and how education needs to adapt. Key points discussed include declining school-age populations but opportunities to better prepare students for 21st century skills and jobs. Technologies are changing how and where learning occurs, with more flexible and personalized approaches needed.

1. Future Focused
Education:
What does it look
like in your school?
CORE Breakfast presentation, Thursday 11 September, Hamilton

4. THE DIGITAL LEARNER
• 1989 – Concept floated for
WWW
• 1989 – Tomorrow’s Schools
• 1993 - First browser
released
• 1995 – WWW comes to NZ
BORN 1997
• 2001 – iPod released
• 2002 – NCEA introduced
• 2010 – iPad released
• 2013 – NCEA level 1
(includes programming)

5. CHALLENGE
Have we grasped how
significantly student access to
technology is changing their
expectations as learners?

6. PROJECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL POPULATION
390,000
380,000
370,000
360,000
350,000
340,000
330,000
320,000
2011
2016
2021
2026
2031
2036
2041
2046
2051
2056
2061
Number
13-18 years
Need to be
vigilant
about this
space
Statistics New Zealand National Population Projections by Age and Sex, 2011(base)-2061

7. NZ: 28,000 FEWER SCHOOL LEAVERS OVER
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
-10,000
-20,000
2011-2016
2016-2021
THE NEXT 10 YEARS
2021-2026
2026-2031
2031-2036
2036-2041
1041-2046
2046-2051
2051-2056
2056-2061
Projected change in numbers at 15-19 years
(Total NZ)
Source: Statistics NZ 2012 Projected population of New Zealand by age and sex, 2011(base)-2061

8. IT IS HAPPENING – CENSUS 2013
325,119
369,090
353,091
380,000
370,000
360,000
350,000
340,000
330,000
320,000
310,000
300,000
2001 2006 2013
Number
Actual Numbers 13-18 Years 2001, 2006, 2013
(Total NZ)
Source: Statistics NZ 2012 Projected population of New Zealand by age and sex, 2011(base)-2061

9. .. HAPPENING IN THE WAIKATO
32,901
36,369
34,899
37,000
36,000
35,000
34,000
33,000
32,000
31,000
2001 2006 2013
Number
Actual Numbers 13-18 Years 2001, 2006, 2013
(Waikato)

10. BUT - HAMILTON CITY ONE OF FEW TO BUCK
THE TREND
11,307
12,588
12,753
13,000
12,500
12,000
11,500
11,000
10,500
2001 2006 2013
Number
Actual N 13-18 Years 2001, 2006, 2013 (Hamilton
City)

11. SUMMARY
• Every year for the next 19 years a successively larger
cohort will reach the retirement zone
• Every year for the next 15 years they will be replaced
by a successively smaller cohort
• 2021-26 will see a brief respite, as the recently-born
baby blip arrives at labour market age
• A zero unemployment opportunity is here

13. The surprising jobs you’ll
be doing by the 2030s
http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367

14. • Robot counsellor
• Rewilder
• Garbage designer
• Neighbourhood watch specialist
• Simplicity expert
• Healthcare navigator
• Nostalgist
• Telesurgeon
• Solar technology specialist
• Aquaponic fish farmer
http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367

15. FUTURE FOCUSED – WHICH FUTURE?
Picture from a reading book for the primary school (8 year olds) in Sweden, 1903

18. WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?
How can schooling change to meet meet
the opportunities and challenges of the
21st century?

19. WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?
How can we prepare students to address
"future-focused" issues such as
sustainability, globalisation, citizenship,
and enterprise?

20. WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?
How can education prepare students for
living in the 21st century?

21. TWO PERSPECTIVES OF EDUCATION…
In the future For the future
• How will learning
occur?
• What about the role
of teachers?
• What sorts of
environments?
• What will we learn
about?
• What will we learn
with?
• What skills/
knowledge/
competencies do we
need to be
developing now in
order to cope with
what the future
might hold?

22. EDUCATION IN THE FUTURE…
• How will learning occur?
• What about the role of teachers?
• What sorts of environments?
• What will we learn about?
• What will we learn with?

23. http://ingvihrannar.com/14-things-that-are-obsolete-in-21st-century-schools/

24. 1. Computer rooms
2. Isolated classrooms
3. Schools that don’t have WiFi
4. Banning phones and tablets
5. Tech director with an admin access
6. Teachers that don’t share what they do
7. Schools that don’t have Facebook or Twitter
8. Unhealthy cafeteria food
9. Starting school at 8am for teenagers
10. Buying poster, website and pamphlet design for school
11. Traditional libraries
12. All students get the same
13. One-PD-workshop-fits-all
14. Standardized tests to measure the quality of education

25. REPLIES

26. WHERE WILL THEY LEARN?

27. Students in
physical school,
instruction and
assessment
predominantly on-site
Students access
formal learning via
the network,
instruction and
assessment
provided online
Students learning
through their
online personal
learning network,
incl. social
networking
environments
Students at home,
library or other
space, pursuing
own interests
individually or
collaboratively
FORMAL
INFORMAL
PHYSICAL
VIRTUAL
e.g. Classrooms,
field trips, music
exams, sports
awards etc.
e.g. Virtual
Learning Network,
online classrooms,
Coursera, virtual
field trips etc.
e.g. PLN
comprising
Facebook, Twitter,
Khan Academy,
YouTube etc.
e.g. Community
library, sports
organisations, after
school clubs etc.

28. ASB BUILDING

29. ASB BUILDING

30. ASB BUILDING

31. ASB BUILDING

32. ASB BUILDING

33. UNPACK
If this is the kind of work
environment our young people will be
functioning in when they leave school,
how well effectively we preparing them
for this in the environments we have
in our schools?

34. WHAT WILL THEY LEARN?

35. FUTURE FOCUS THEMES
• Sustainability
• Enterprise
• Globalization
• Citizenship

36. THINKING 3D

38. • kjb

40. http://bit.ly/1tKP5Lm

41. HOW WILL THEY LEARN?

42. FOUR FORMS BEHIND THE ORGANISATION AND
EVOLUTION OF ALL SOCIETIES - TMIN
7000 BC 3000 AD
History
David Ronfeldt TIMN (Tribal, Institutional, Market, Network)

43. An education system that fails to emulate the characteristics of
information in an era of knowledge is doomed to fail.
Information today is…
• Open
• Distributed
• Scalable
• Social
• Generative
• Networked
• Self-organised
• Adaptive
• Global
George Siemens: Connectivism –
a theory of learning for the networked age
http://www.connectivism.ca/

44. TWO FORMS OF NETWORK
The way networks learn is the way individuals learn
School A
Network Groups
PLN
Federally organised
Collections of entities
Collaborative
Heterarchical
Networked knowledge
Externally organised
Single entity
Competitive
Hierarchical
Knowledge transfer
Personally organised
Association of entities
Connected
Heutagogy
Personal knowledge

45. EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE…
What skills/knowledge/ competencies do we
need to be developing now in order to cope
with what the future might hold?

46. THE FUTURE…
• Food supply
• Water
• Cryogenics
• Nano-technology
• Cultural assimilation
• Human rights
• Poverty
• Religious intolerance

47. FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Personalising learning – how
can you build the school
curriculum around the learner
and more flexibly to meet
learners’ needs?

48. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29063614

49. FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Are you building an inclusive
learning environment - how do
you:
• enage learners, family/whānau, and
communities in co-shaping education to
address students’ needs, strengths,
interests and aspirations?
• provide access to anywhere, anytime
learning?
• support assessment and evaluation
processes so that these are dynamic and
responsive to information about
students?

51. FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Are you developing a school
curriculum that uses knowledge
to develop learning capacity –
how can you enable students
to create and use new
knowledge to solve problems
and find solutions to challenges
as they arise on a “just-in-time”
basis?

53. FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Rethinking learners’ and create
a “knowledge-building” learning
environment where learners and
teachers work together?

54. FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• Building a culture of
continuous learning for teachers
and school leaders – what
opportunities to participate in
and build professional learning
are afforded by technologies?

55. FUTURE FOCUSED CONSIDERATIONS
• How can technologies be used to
facilitate all of this?

56. Modern technologies
provide students with
the potential for
experiences of
unprecedented
breadth, depth
and relevance.
.

57. We now have the
conditions for
modern learners to
tackle projects of
a complexity
previously
unimaginable.

58. ..as a result we must
rethink what we expect
of our students.
We must stop
underestimating what
they are now capable of;
and above all…set much
higher expectations
.

60. The evolving learning environment…
14TH- 19TH CENTURY
PRINT ERA
Authors/Publishers
Books, Documents
21ST CENTURY
COLLABORATIVE AGE
Community
Generated
Experiences
Mixed Media, Social
Networks, Virtual
Environments
20TH CENTURY
BROADCAST ERA
Vendor Produced
Content
Film, Radio, TV,
Video, Web Pages

61. Forget blogs –
think open
dialogues

62. Forget wikis – think collaboration

63. Forget podcasts
– think
democratisation
of voice

64. Forget RSS/aggregation
- think personal learning networks

66. Derek Wenmoth
Email: derek@core-ed.org
Blog: http://blog.core-ed.org/derek
Skype: dwenmoth