Research-informed strategies to address educational challenges in a
digitally networked world.
TWG 1: Towards new systems of schooling in the digital age
EDUsummIT 2013
October 1-2
Washington D.C., United States of America
Aims of the TWG 1 of EDUsummIT 2013
 Developing a research update and an update of new practices of
using digital technology for schooling
 Formulating future issues, questions, and concerns regarding the
use of new forms of schooling in the digital age
 Understanding digital age as a huge field of challenges and
potentials to meet individualized learning and 21st century skills
worldwide
New forms of schooling - two essential questions as the
shared base for the TGW1
 Two essential questions as the shared base for the TGW1
 To what extent and how does recent developments of education and
digital technologies challenge and change systems of schooling?
 How can research inform us about the potential of new forms of
schooling with digital technologies?
 Different perspectives for a proper analysis
 Institutions
 Actors
 Practices
Needs and unresolved issues/concerns
discussed in the TWG1
 Remarks
 Consider risk groups / very divers students
 School is a running system not ‚new‘ system  how to change a running
system
 Needs
 Unresolved issues
Needs discussed in the TWG1
 Making education more open, flexible, personalized,…
 to change school systems, schooling, classrooms, attitudes of
teachers, parents, school leaders and students,…
 making research on impact of the use of IT in education more
accessible (to teachers)
 public funding/incentives with more focus on sustainable solutions
not so many `short term projects´
Unresolved Issues discussed in the TWG1
 development of open education resources has to consider various
traditions/languages in different countries
 policy makers should consider both economic and educational
needs
 how to adapt curricula / assessment /… to personalized learning
 planing the physical and social environment allowing students to
work individually using IT
 who defines the purpose of education?
Needs discussed in the TWG1 part 2
 research on impact of the use of IT in education
 public funding/incentive with more focus on sustainable solutions
not so many `pilot projects´
 how do we engage students in learning
 how do we get governments to financially support IT in education
 how do we get teachers to recognize their own limited possibilities
in IT
 Who is driving education?
Needs discussed in the TWG1
 Making education more open (closed vs. open settings /classrooms,
closed curriculum, closed school systems,… ) more possibilities for
decisions to students
 changing teachers , parents, school leaders
 recognize the influence of formal learning on informal learning and vice
versa
 not enough teachers with competencies in using IT
 gap in available technical infrastructure
 change the structure of schools, distance learning,…
 life long learners – teachers get more money if the learn more
Needs discussed in the TWG1 part 3
 how to get better results from all the equipment we have got –
sharing knowledge in and between schools
 setting common set of rules - concering IT-Use – in schools
 solutions of the infrastucture BYOD ()
 concepts of personalized learning
 teacher training and further education
Unresolved Issues discussed in the TWG1
 development of open education resources has to consider typical
tradition in the different countries
 policy makers shouln‘t emphazize so much on how to save money
but how to improve learnig outcome
 how to adapt curricula / assessment /… to personalized learning
 planing the physical environment allowing students to work
individually
 what is education really?
Unresolved Issues discussed in the TWG1
 growing interest in 21th century competencies
 What does the change from teacher centered to students centered
learning really mean?
 What are the needs to change the public school system?
 Why do we new new types of schooling? What are the aims? What
has to be changed?
 Identify needs and aims for the new kind learning
Unresolved Issues discussed in the TWG1
 How do you provide money for IT infrastructure for students in poor
areas / ‚mileus‘
 How to impact ???
 How to change a running system?
 Revolution oder evolution?
 Data security, licences
 language problems for non-english speaking countries

TWG 1 needs christine

  • 1.
    Research-informed strategies toaddress educational challenges in a digitally networked world. TWG 1: Towards new systems of schooling in the digital age EDUsummIT 2013 October 1-2 Washington D.C., United States of America
  • 2.
    Aims of theTWG 1 of EDUsummIT 2013  Developing a research update and an update of new practices of using digital technology for schooling  Formulating future issues, questions, and concerns regarding the use of new forms of schooling in the digital age  Understanding digital age as a huge field of challenges and potentials to meet individualized learning and 21st century skills worldwide
  • 3.
    New forms ofschooling - two essential questions as the shared base for the TGW1  Two essential questions as the shared base for the TGW1  To what extent and how does recent developments of education and digital technologies challenge and change systems of schooling?  How can research inform us about the potential of new forms of schooling with digital technologies?  Different perspectives for a proper analysis  Institutions  Actors  Practices
  • 4.
    Needs and unresolvedissues/concerns discussed in the TWG1  Remarks  Consider risk groups / very divers students  School is a running system not ‚new‘ system  how to change a running system  Needs  Unresolved issues
  • 5.
    Needs discussed inthe TWG1  Making education more open, flexible, personalized,…  to change school systems, schooling, classrooms, attitudes of teachers, parents, school leaders and students,…  making research on impact of the use of IT in education more accessible (to teachers)  public funding/incentives with more focus on sustainable solutions not so many `short term projects´
  • 6.
    Unresolved Issues discussedin the TWG1  development of open education resources has to consider various traditions/languages in different countries  policy makers should consider both economic and educational needs  how to adapt curricula / assessment /… to personalized learning  planing the physical and social environment allowing students to work individually using IT  who defines the purpose of education?
  • 7.
    Needs discussed inthe TWG1 part 2  research on impact of the use of IT in education  public funding/incentive with more focus on sustainable solutions not so many `pilot projects´  how do we engage students in learning  how do we get governments to financially support IT in education  how do we get teachers to recognize their own limited possibilities in IT  Who is driving education?
  • 8.
    Needs discussed inthe TWG1  Making education more open (closed vs. open settings /classrooms, closed curriculum, closed school systems,… ) more possibilities for decisions to students  changing teachers , parents, school leaders  recognize the influence of formal learning on informal learning and vice versa  not enough teachers with competencies in using IT  gap in available technical infrastructure  change the structure of schools, distance learning,…  life long learners – teachers get more money if the learn more
  • 9.
    Needs discussed inthe TWG1 part 3  how to get better results from all the equipment we have got – sharing knowledge in and between schools  setting common set of rules - concering IT-Use – in schools  solutions of the infrastucture BYOD ()  concepts of personalized learning  teacher training and further education
  • 10.
    Unresolved Issues discussedin the TWG1  development of open education resources has to consider typical tradition in the different countries  policy makers shouln‘t emphazize so much on how to save money but how to improve learnig outcome  how to adapt curricula / assessment /… to personalized learning  planing the physical environment allowing students to work individually  what is education really?
  • 11.
    Unresolved Issues discussedin the TWG1  growing interest in 21th century competencies  What does the change from teacher centered to students centered learning really mean?  What are the needs to change the public school system?  Why do we new new types of schooling? What are the aims? What has to be changed?  Identify needs and aims for the new kind learning
  • 12.
    Unresolved Issues discussedin the TWG1  How do you provide money for IT infrastructure for students in poor areas / ‚mileus‘  How to impact ???  How to change a running system?  Revolution oder evolution?  Data security, licences  language problems for non-english speaking countries