Overview of CORE's Ten Trends 2020 - A retrospective view. Providing insights into the things that are likely to impact on the practice of educators and work of schools into the future

1. Ten Trends
Online Webinar - 23 June 2020
Derek Wenmoth
@dwenmoth #futurefocused

3. Thinking Globally
• Personalisation of learning for students
• Competency based education
• Global Skills shortages
• Changing nature of work
• Initial teacher education in crisis
• Equity
• Access to quality education
• Inclusion
• Changing demographics and social mobility
• Climate change
• Exponential and converging technologies

4. 5 Themes: 15 years
• Trends, not predictions
• Retrospective view
• Identifying drivers
• Future directions
• Questions

5. Structural
• Educational institutions have become defined by
structures that serve to support what they do and
the ways they achieve this.
• A system and structures that are fundamentally
designed around uniformity and standardisation
will inevitably fail to provide the sort of settings in
which diverse learners will thrive and succeed.

6. Structural - trends
• Shift in ownership of learning –
learner agency
• Networks of schools, learning
ecologies
• Virtual/online learning

7. Structural - future
• Focus on learner, whanau and
community
• Redefining curriculum and
assessment
• Expanding the concept of school

8. Structural - questions
• To what extent, and in what ways, are you engaging
meaningfully with your learners and/or their family or
whānau to genuinely understand their iden8ty and
background?
• What are the key drivers behind decisions made in
your se?ng around curriculum (e.g. subjects taught),
use of 8me, alloca8on of tasks to teachers, design and
use of learning spaces, etc?
• How might greater use of virtual/online learning
ensure all learners are able to access the
opportuni8es they need and deserve?

9. Process
In business terms, process is a collection of
related, structured activities or tasks that
produce a specific outcome.
Simply put, process may be understood as the
way we do things. Important here is to
understand that the way we do things will
inevitably reflect our language, culture and
identity, and the trends in this section must be
considered through these lenses.

10. Process - trends
• Open-ness, disintermediation
• Evidence and data use, inquiry
• Assessment practices
• Design thinking, gamefication
• Collaboration

11. Process - future
• Increasing collaboration – maturing of clusters
and learning ecologies
• Changes in assessment approaches
• Greater flexibility in terms of time, place and pace
of learning
• Schools becoming more intentionally inclusive

12. Process - Questions
• How is the learning journey of your children or
young people managed at present? Who owns
this and why?
• What evidence of design thinking and/ or
gamificaIon exist in your seJng? How is it used
and for what purpose?
• How is data being used in your learning seJng to
empower both learners and teachers, and to
reduce the administraIve workload for
everyone?

13. Technology
We are in a new decade and the pace of change
driven by new technologies and technological
advancements looks set to continue, even to
accelerate rapidly like no other time in history.
The important thing here is the pervasive nature
of technological change – it is not additive, it is
ecological. When you add a new technology you
don’t simply change something, you change
everything.

14. Technology - Drivers
• Digital literacy
• Digital Citizenship
• Curriculum Support
• Preparation for future workforce
• Supporting personalised learning
• Expanding access, addressing equity
• Improving efficiency

15. Technology - trends
• Personal mobile devices
• Advanced networks
• Social Media
• The cloud

16. Technology - future
• Personalised
• Ubiquitous
• Intelligent
• Interoperability
• Sustainability

17. Technology - ques=ons
• How is your education setting strategically
planning for the rapid advancement of
technology that can support learning?
• What steps are you, your staff and community
taking to ensure you are keeping up to date
about technological developments so that you
are able to make informed decisions about
future technological investment and
programmes of learning in your organisation?

18. Cultural
The culture of an organisation is the product of the
beliefs and values, perceptions, relationships, attitudes,
and written and unwritten rules that shape and
influence every aspect of how it functions.
The culture of any learning setting directly influences
the relationships in it. It affects how everyone interacts,
leads, learns, develops and grows in that setting.
Organisational culture is a reflection of its leaders’
culture, ethics (or lack of them) and consciousness.

19. Cultural - Trends
• Shift in ownership of learning/learner agency
• Increasing diversity, UDL, inclusion
• Cultural narratives
• Place-based learning
• Embracing a digital culture

20. Cultural - Drivers
• Internal factors - leadership, staff expectaIons,
tradiIons and rules.
• Community factors - cultural or belief systems
represented, family/whānau educaIonal
experience and expectaIons of their children,
locaIon and wider environment of the learning
seJng.
• External factors - naIonal educaIonal policy and
resourcing factors, poliIcal decisions and acIons.

21. Cultural - Future
• Shift in ownership – learner-centred
design.
• Diversity – expressions of language,
culture, identity.
• Digital – online safety, identity, artificial
intelligence.

22. Cultural - Questions
• To what extent do your organisation’s values, and
the practices that stem from them, resonate with
the issues identified in this trend?
• To what extent is the voice of learners and of your
community effective in helping determine the
culture of your setting?
• How is being digital considered as a part of the
culture in your setting?

23. Economic
The relationship between education and the
economy is important from two perspectives:
1. The benefit to society of having well educated
young people who are prepared to take up
employment that will contribute to the
growth of our economy.
2. The cost to society of investing in education,
such as the building of learning centres and
schools, teachers’ salaries, and curriculum
resources.

24. Economic - Drivers
• Periods of high unemployment
• Changing nature of work
• Changing nature of society
• GlobalisaIon
• Impact of rapidly advancing automated processes

25. Economic - Trends
• Maker culture, design thinking, computational
thinking, STEM
• Collaborative skills and mindsets
• Automation, robots, AI
• Teacher roles, teacher workload

26. Economic - Future
• Focus on high cost of current models
• Re-alignment of career aspirations
• Addressing systemic inequity
• Shifts from a ‘financial maximization’ mindset

27. Economic - Questions
• How are the issues iden8fied in this trend used to
inform decisions about:
– Curriculum design?
– Career planning and advice?
– Teacher roles and responsibili6es?
– Learning ac6vi6es that require addi6onal payments from
parents and whānau?
– Design and use of buildings/property?
• How do the ideas in the economy theme influence
your thinking about equity within our educa8on
system?

28. What next?
• Complete the survey -
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• Upcoming PLD opportuni8es
– Future focused schools: aligning strategies to realise
posi4ve change webinar
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– Growing your leadership through courageous
conversa4ons workshop
– Innova4ve learning prac4ce online programme
• Request help in your school

29. Thank You
derek.wenmoth@core-ed.org
@dwenmoth
http://www.wenmoth.net