1. 21st Century Learning
Richard Jones
eLearning Specialist

2. “re-learning” & “useful ignorance”
Actually
It’s really about
“unlearning”
“re-learning” & “useful ignorance”
No notes will be useful to you
This is not a practical session – sorry .

3. Going or changing The Post Office Television (broadcast) Newspapers
Music CD’s, DVD’s
Telephones (fixed line)
Book shops
Computers
Schools
What has gone in my lifetime?
Queuing at the bank, cheques, letter writing, handwritten reports.
Our first tv I was 8 years old. Black and white with an iPad sized screen.
Outdoor play, conversation, family meals, camping.
Wash day, milk delivery, the grocers boy, service and conversation at the store.

4. Exponential growth http://youtu.be/hM1x4RljmnE
Moore’s law – Computing “power” doubles every 18 months – grows around 45% per year
Pop Quiz:
The Year 9’s enter work in about 6 years time.
Computer power doubles every 1.5 years
How much more powerful will they be in 6 years?

5. 4x the power of the human brain
Figures
32x
And look at the cost!
4x the power of the human brain

6. What can we do now?
We have translators – Google translate We have speech recognition – Siri We have speech synthesis – machine talk We have location awareness – Mobile me We have “augmented reality” – Google goggles
None of these are perfect because the processing power is not quite here yet – but soon it will be…

7. In 2020
You will have mobile access to devices 4x as powerful as your brain – in processing power, storage and speed.
The human race will be coming out of a revolution in information processing, storage and retrieval.
Your device will measure your health in real-time
You will have virtual meetings with anyone, anywhere in any language in virtual 3D
Your device will understand your gestures, lip read and analyse your sports performance.

8. A video! Has everyone seen it already?

9. Things you really should read
Daniel Pink – A Whole New Mind Ted McCain – Teaching for Tomorrow Erica McWilliam - Creative Workforce Clayton M Christensen – Disrupting Class (I chose these as reasonably easy reading)
If you read
only one

10. How about school?
Students are experiencing richer learning environments at home which they are able to self-manage. At school they are disengaged.
Get some discussion going around this.
What are you missing? Anything? Everything?
Compare a game you play at home. Do you learn things fast?
What, if anything about gaming could be applied at home?
Reality is Broken, Jane McGonical.
“School and universities are increasingly important and increasingly irrelevant”
Erica McWilliam

11. School in a changing world
Is this really what we want?
Many implications for schools in this world of change. Not every outcome is foreseeable.

12. Another video! A bit of hype but the trends are clear
What happen’s over there usually comes here, eventually
There’s more Heppell and Robinson here:

13. OK, last one (have you seen it?)
It’s getting out of date (MySpace?)
Facebook is #3
YouTube is the most popular search engine among under 13’s
Every minute 24 h of video is uploaded to YouTube.
80% of employers use social for recruitment – 95% of those use LinkedIn
More stats here…

14. What does it all mean? The bottom line
You will prepare students for a world we haven’t figured out yet.
Old ways of doing things will need to be “unlearnt” – “relearning”
“Useful ignorance” – knowing what you don’t know and knowing how to learn it (quickly)

15. Erica McWilliam 7 propositions The future isn’t what it used to be.
We cannot teach kids what they will need to know.
Learning  & unlearning matter more than knowing.
The cafe, not the school, is the proper antecedent of lifelong learning.

16. Another:
Self-managers with powerful learning portfolios trump those who rely solely on credentials.
My take: If the states and boards don’t change assessment practice they will anyway increasingly be seen as lacking credibility and relevance.
Other measures of performance will be found and used by those that need them.

17. Last 2 (interesting!) Sage on the Stage Guide on the Side
Distractability is a boon to learning, not a mental illness.
Effective pedagogy exploits the productive tension between  intentionality and distractability. 
Guide on the Side
Meddler in the Middle

18. At TSS Our strategy is to use technology in the classroom to:
Engage students more effectively
Bring out HOTS like creativity, evaluation & analysis.
Based on our Framework

19. Bloom’s & Cognitive processes
Not a bad model to plan lesson objectives from

20. Good luck!