The Renaissance of Learning Education Reform for the Knowledge Society

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The Renaissance of LearningEducation Reform for
theKnowledge Society

• Dr Chris Yapp
• cyap_at_microsoft.com

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The New Renaissance

• Information explosion
• Conceptual explosion
• Blurring of the Arts/Science/Technology/Humanities
  
• Risk and Uncertainty
• Long-term impact
• The City state

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Plus ca change?

• Teacher
• Surgeon
• Train Driver

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The Biggest Mistake

• New Teacher
• Old Teacher
• IT

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The Changing Pattern of Education

• Traditional Phases

Education
Training
Work
Retirement
Lifelong Learning
Education
Training
Work
Retirement
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What is changing?

• Lifestyles
• Work, organisation and location
• Politics
• Government local, regional, national and
  international
• Commerce
• Demographics
• Entertainment
• Education
• All in the space of one generation

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Problem Types
Do we know How to get there?
YES
TASK Operational Management
TASK Direction Setting
Do we know Where we are Going?
NO
YES
TASK Process Creation
TASK Concept Creation
After Eddie Obeng
NO
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IT Literacy

• What should you teach
• A five-year old so that
• They will be IT literate
• At the age of 20?

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Core to the Problem?

• The hardware doesnt yet exist
• The software hasnt been written
• Some of the key companies dont yet exist
• So, who do you ask?

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IT and Globalisation

• Minimum skill set for a living wage rising
• Demand for low-skilled workers falling
• Rate of change of skill needs increasing
• State budgets under pressure

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Underlying Logic

• People are for thinking, machines for doing
• Once it can be done it can be automated
• Once it can be automated, it can be done
  elsewhere more cheaply
• Increased demands for creativity, innovation,
  design and personal/inter-personal skills

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Education and Societal Change..
Size of Economy
Information
KNOWLEDGE
Industry
Agriculture
CAPITAL
LAND
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Our Choice as a Society

• Ask what kind of society technology progress will
  create
• Policy-technocrat approach
• And/Or
• What kind of society do we want to create
  utilising technological progress
• Think Tank approach

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Shared Vision?

• Lifelong learning for all
• Highly qualified and motivated teaching
  profession
• Learner at the heart of the system
• High standards
• Flexible provision

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Values of the Information Society?

• Competitiveness with social inclusion
• Life long learning for all
• Riskmanagement over minimisation
• Social innovation over technology invention
• Smallish is beautiful
• Interdependence over independence
• Participation over representation
• Value-added with values

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Social Innovations of the Industrial Society

• Schools, Colleges, Universities
• Public Libraries, Museums
• Police, Fire
• Local Authorities
• Building Societies, Co-op, Mutuals, Friendly
  Societies
• Trade Unions

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Social Innovations of Information Society?

• Post and Telegraph
• BT
• BBC

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Lessons from Industry

• IT is about organisational effectiveness
• Optimising effectiveness comes through
  organisational change
• Re-engineering Education to support Lifelong
  learning

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Re-engineer what?

• The educational infrastructure
• The curriculum and assessment
• The teaching professions

To put the learner at the heart of the system
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Learning on Demand

• Personalised, mass-customisation
• User-driven quality
• Teamwork-oriented teaching and learning
• Exams and Qualifications?
• Administration built-in not bolted-on to teaching
  and learning processes

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This implies

• A Culture of Lifelong Learning
• Access to lifelong learning
• Content to support individual lifelong learners
• A social context for lifelong learning

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Community Learning Networks
Office
Libraries
Community
Schools And Colleges As the hubs Of
Connected Learning Communities
Home
NETWORK
Schools And Colleges
Cultural centres
Leisure Centres
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Remember

• It takes a village to educate a child

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Classes of Technology

• Sustaining
• Disruptive

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What is a computer?
Processor
Storage
Communications
Memory
Input- Output
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Pervasive Computing
Processor
Storage
Network
Memory
Input- Output
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MIT90s paradigm
External environment
People and Roles
The Organisation
Management Processes
Strategy
IT
Organisation Design
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MIT90s paradigm
Organisational Culture
External environment
People and Roles
The Organisation
IT
Management Processes
Strategy
Organisation Design
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5 Levels of Transformation
Degree of Tramsformation
Scope Redefinition
Network Redesign
External
Internal
Process Redesign
Revolutionary
Evolutionary
Internal Integration
Source MIT
Local exploitation
Extent of benefits
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The Information Utility
Customer Premises
Distribution Network
Power Stations
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NGfL Knowledge Utility
Schools Colleges Libraries Work Home .
ISDN ADSL iDTV Wireless LAN Broadband
Content Services Support
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Lets be cynical

• Radio
• Film
• TV
• Internet
• Roll on the next one?

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Types of E-Learning
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Transforming Learning

• Need for Change
• X
• Vision
• X
• Capability
• X
• First Steps

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Purposes of Education

• Personal Growth
• Social Cohesion
• Economic Performance

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A Virtuous Circle
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Raymond Williams

• Education for..
• Understanding
• Adapting to change
• Authorship of change

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A Learner in her life plays many parts..

• Student
• Teacher
• Librarian/Curator
• Researcher
• Assessor
• Counsellor
• Parent

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Teacher Roles

• Subject matter expert
• Learning resources manager
• Learning coach
• Educational administrator
• Staff development manager
• Curriculum agent
• Counsellor personal, career, social
• Trainees

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Re-engineering the Teacher

• ITT
• Early Professional Development
• Continuous Professional Development
• Action Research - sabbaticals
• Teaching roles and specialisation
• Joined-up professions

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The Changing Nature of Literacy

• 3Rs defined for needs of an Industrial Society
• Minimum standards for employability are rising
• Focus on self-managed learning
• Blurring of artistic/technical/scientific/personal
  

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IT and Creativity

• Combinatorial
• Exploratory
• Transformational

Margaret Boden, University of Sussex
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Learning as if the Brain mattered

• Multiple intelligence theory
• Learning styles
• EQ and IQ
• Brain functioning

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Knowledge Transfer from HE?

• Physical Design
• Organisation Design
• Change Management
• Psychology
• Technology
• .

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Special Educational Needs

• All children have special educational needs
• Technology offers the potential to take the dis
  out of disability
• The potential will only be realised by
  commitment to research and implementation of
  successful pilots
• New teaching and learning skills?

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Accreditation

• Modular
• When ready, not age!
• Credit accumulation and transfer
• Time stamped?
• Vocational/academic
• Process and/or content
• Assessment for/of Learning
• Bachelor of Learning?

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Teacher Assessment

• It doesnt matter what he does,
• hell never make anything of
• himself

Head teacher of Albert Einstein
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This implies..

• More languages
• Cultural sensitivity
• Media awareness
• Science and Technology awareness/confidence
• Team working
• Creativity/innovation
• Learning to learn

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Generic Skills

• Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
• Listening, Speaking, Thinking, Visualisation
• Time and Project management
• Information skills
• Design and presentation
• Problem identification, definition and solving
• Personal knowledge

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Formal and Informal Learning
Process
Formal
Course
Search Engine
Formal
Informal
Content
Experience
TV
Informal
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So what should we teach a 5-year old today?

• Communication skills
• Personal knowledge
• Numeracy
• Creativity
• Citizenship
• Love of learning

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This implies..

• Teacher as lifelong learner
• Learning as a social experience
• Teaching as a research-based profession
• Personalised curriculum
• Focus on social inclusion
• Globalisation/ localisation of learning

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Douglas Robertson

• The generation that is alive today has the
  chance to create the next civilisation. That is a
  chance not given to every generation

The New Renaissance(1999)
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For Further Information

• See the following websites
• Microsoft.com/uk/education
• Theeducationcommunity.com