Understanding how learning evolved over the past 100,000 years helps us figure out how the pandemic will unleash a revolution in education with the emerging technology. Recent history has not seen any event of a similar magnitude. We would have to go back as far as World War II for any kind of equivalent event. The historical events of new normal provide insights to how the hybrid learning may transform the learning model in early education, where most of the digital texts with the emerging technology in AR (merging the virtual and the physical spaces) and AI (data-driven decision making) could begin to evolve learning practices.

1. Hybrid Learning in Early Education
Dr Kay Yong, Khoo EdD

2. My Experience

3. https://www.les.hku.hk/teaching-space/kklg102

4. Lecture
Weekly Reading
Weekly Reflection
Group Project
Group Discussion
Assignment
Group Presentation

5. History a guide to the Future

6. Before the invention
of symbols, the
ancient people
needed to gather at
the same place and
at the same time to
learn.

7. The invention of
symbols changed
the way we learnt.To
learn the new
knowledge, they
needed to go to the
place. However, they
can decide the time.

8. The invention of
books again
changed the way we
learnt.The book
with the knowledge
could reach the
learners.

9. Printing machine
allowed the
duplication of
knowledge.The
invention had led to
the science
revolution in the 17
Century.

10. How does Multimedia
revolutionize
contemporary education?
It allowed the content of advanced ideas and
teaching to transcend time and place. It
affected major revolution in learning: They
don’t have to rely on face-to-face interaction or
vagaries of human memory.
During the earlier
100,000 years of
human (i.e., Homo
sapiens) existence,
instruction had to take
place person to person.
Writing developed
about 7,000 years ago
and progressed from
picture-based
ideographs to alphabet-
based by 1,000 BC.
Romans began to sew
sheets of parchment
together into codices in
300 BC.
Printed books in China
around 1000 AD and in
Europe in the mid-
1400s.
(Fletcher, 2004)
REVOLUTIONS in Learning

11. Isaac Newton’s
the Printing Revolution
which in turn,
increased
literacy rates and
mass learning …
In the modern era (1450 CE to the present day)
laid the foundation …
… revolutions often have a ripple effect across generations and nations.
Scientific
Revolution of the
16th and 17th
centuries.
The
Industrial
Revolution
in Great
Britain
the global
Digital
Revolution
of the 20th
century,
… momentous events that helped shape today’s global knowledge society.

12. After
knowledge
comes
wisdom!

13. The New Normal

14. The New Normal
• The tectonic shifts in society occur when
unexpected events force widespread
experimentation around a new idea.

15. During World War II, for instance, when American
men went off to war, women proved that they
could do “men’s work”- and do it well. Women
never looked back after that.

17. Alibaba launched the Taobao site on time, on
May 10, 2003.
By that point, people across the country were
staying home from work out of fear of
contracting SARS. That self-imposed quarantine
actually became a watershed moment for
China’s economy — particularly for internet
companies, like Alibaba — as Chinese
consumers who were stuck at home started
turning to the internet to order items.
A dire situation becomes a watershed moment
First, Ma’s decision to send his workers home helped prevent the spread of the disease at Alibaba, and the
company founder encouraged his staff to take their work with them. Workers took their desktop computers home
to ensure Alibaba’s business-to-business e-commerce platform remained up and running.
Employees worked 12-hour days, with the company’s customer service hotline redirecting to workers’ homes
during the quarantine.
(Huddleston, 2020)

23. Givers Gain

24. Video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iwKf7YcCE0&feature=youtu.be

29. Hybrid Learning in Early Education

31. Watch, Do and Learn
Video Reading
Teacher Reading
Learning Outcomes
Assessment
Assignment
Group Activities
LMS

33. Thank You