This document discusses the transformation of education. It touches on topics like moving from surface to deep learning, developing skills like critical thinking over just knowledge accumulation, and adapting education for a rapidly changing future that is hard to define. The document suggests education may need to change from a standardized, factory-based model to a more personalized approach and also addresses assessing learning in multiple ways. It advocates thinking outside the box and finding teachable moments to draw out each student's potential.

1. The Purpose
of Education
Steve Wheeler
http://static.guim.co.uk
(and how it
can be
transformed)

2. www.students.ou.edu

3. knowledge
or wisdom?
http://slated.org

4. Surface Learning
Deep Learning
Marton and Säljö (1976)

5. Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
Transformation
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6. Knowledge
Wisdom
Transformation
http://slated.org
Knowing that
Knowing how
Knowing why
Knowledge
Application
Analysis
Evaluation
Declarative
Procedural
Critical
Synthesis
Comprehension

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/specialkrb/2772991999

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/specialkrb/2772991999
Tom Wagner (Harvard University)
• Critical thinking/Problem solving
• Leadership and vision
• Agility/Adaptability
• Initiative/Entreprenuerial
• Effective Communication Skills
• Access and Analysis of Information
• Curiosity/Imagination
Skills students need for business

9. The goal of education
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
“If you think education is expensive
… try ignorance.”
– Derek Bok

10. What’s the best thing about school?
– my friends

11. What’s the worst thing about school?
– being treated like you’re an idiot

14. Doctors save lives.
Teachers make lives.

15. The Goal of Education
“The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while
producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners
that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of
the world. Education is about teaching students, not
subjects.” – Dave Truss
http://ucsbvrc.files.wordpress.com

16. “Education allows children to
develop the skills and
confidence they need to
strengthen their
societies, break the cycle of
poverty and build peace in
their communities.”
- Save the Children
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

18. “We all need to
care more about
how the children of
the world are
being educated.”
(Steve Wheeler
Learning with ‘e’s:
February 2010)

19. Does education need transformation?
Source: Chambers English Dictionary
"In large states
public education
will always be
mediocre, for the
same reason that in
large kitchens the
cooking is usually
bad."
- Nietzsche
http://www.swissinfo.ch/media
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

20. Factory education model?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010
Synchronisation
Batch processing
Compartmentalisation
Standardisation

21. Personalised Learning?
http://www.delasallewaterford.com
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

22. Education is changing for young people
as they experience self-directed
learning, (mostly outside school) about
things that interest them.
Source: http://community.learningobjects.com
http://flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/416206133/
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

23. Young people’s out-
of-school
experiences with
technology can
mean that students
find the presentation
of school curriculum
less challenging, less
relevant and less
engaging.
Source: http://community.learningobjects.com
http://encefalus.com/
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

24. “For the first time
we are preparing
students for a
future we cannot
clearly describe.”
– David Warlick
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010
http://www.leics.gov.uk

25. The pace of
change is
accelerating
How will we
keep up
with it?

26. Transformation…
• …to change
people or things
completely, espe
cially improving
their
appearance or
usefulness
• …to convert one
form of energy
to another
http://katmaund.blogspot.com/
Source: Banksy
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

27. Fair measures?
Assessment of, or for, learning?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenhester/3901158717/

28. Source:http://www.masalatime.com

31. Source:http://www.masalatime.com

32. Source:http://www.masalatime.com

33. Source: http://www.masalatime.com

34. Source: http://www.masalatime.com

35. Ipsative assessment

36. "In the times of rapid
change, learners
inherit the
Earth, while the
learned find
themselves
beautifully equipped
to deal with a world
that no longer exists."
- Eric Hoffer
washingtonrebel.typepad.com

37. We don't need
to reform the
system. We
need to replace
the system.
~ Alvin Toffler
www.strategy-business.com

38. Learning Styles?
“There are as many learning styles as
there are people.”
– Wheeler (2009)
http://fluorescentflicker.files.wordpress.com
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010

39. VAK model
Visual Seeing and reading
Auditory Hearing and speaking
Kinaesthetic Touching and doing

40. Multi-modal learning...?
Auditory
Visual Kinaesthetic

41. ...or Confucius repurposed?
Auditory
Visual Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand

42. Situated Learning
Auditory
Visual Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand
Cognition
Memory Meta Cognition
Deeper
Learning

43. Education – drawing
out the potential of
each individual
(Educere)
I cannot teach
anyone. All I
can do is make
them think.

44. Doctors save lives.
Teachers make lives.

45. “We need
diversity of
thought in the
world to face the
new challenges.”
- Sir Tim Berners-Leewww.topnews.in
Here are some strategies to consider…

46. “You can be
imaginative all day
long and never do
anything. To be
creative you have to
do something.
Creativity is applied
imagination”.
– Sir Ken Robinson
http://www.wizdomeducation.com
Be creative

47. Join all nine dots using four straight lines. Do not
take your pen from the paper and do not go back
over any lines.

48. Thinking outside the box

49. A man enters a field with an unopened
package and dies. Why?

50. A man enters a field with an unopened
package and dies. Why?
Lateral thinking

51. Look for the teachable moments
http://www.candyapplecostumes.com

52. All learning
begins when our
comfortable
ideas turn out to
be inadequate.
- John Dewey
http://www.dancinghearts.org
Step outside your comfort zone

53. Get yourself a vision
“It’s not easy
being blind, but it
must be tragic
when you can
see, but you have
no vision.”
- Helen Kellerhttp://www.aph.org/hall_fame/images/keller4.jpg

54. Positive Deviance
“Somewhere in your
organization, groups of
people are already doing
things differently and
better. To create lasting
change, find areas of
positive deviance and
fan their flames.”
- Pascale & Sternin
(Harvard Business Review)

55. http://limpa-vias.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
Don’t limit a child to
your own
learning, for he was
born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

56. What will it take to
transform education?

57. Go and be crazy