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AgendaIntro: Nine Shift and Knowledge Workers 1. Mission of Education 2. Curriculum 3. New Role for Teachers 4. The 21 New Pedagogical Concepts 5. Grading: Tests every week 6. Grading learning and knowledge 7. Financing Schools and Colleges 8. Personalising Education 9. What schools will look like10.Some of our predictionsYour Questions
Jobs50%
2000 2020
Factory
Knowledge
Source: Statistical Abstract of the U. S., 1996, National Data Book, p. 410
Knowledge Workers
• Use their brain and the Web
• Produce something intangible
• Have four year college degree
• Work from home
2000 2005 2010 2020
Factory Model of School Declines
New Personalised ModelEmerges
New Model Is Established
Factory Model of Education Cracks
Part 1. New Mission for Education
•New measure of education success: 50% of population with 4 year degree.
•Your community’s new measure of business needs: what percent of our adult population has a 4 year college degree?
Curriculum as a Product
• A process whereby students are taught using a curriculum designed outside the classroom, in an attempt to make the learner “teacher-proof”
• Teachers apply the programs and are judged by the products of their actions.
The 21st Century Classroom
• “. . .our generation focused on information, but these kids focus on meaning -- how does information take on meaning?" - John Seeley Brown
Genuine Desire to Learn
• “Somewhere between my desire to learn and the professor’s efforts to teach, something goes terribly wrong.”
• Willie Draves, 2006
Premises of Andragogy
• 1.Adults need to know the reason for learning something (Need to Know)
• 2.Experience (including error) provides the basis for learning activities (Foundation).
• 3.Adults need to be responsible for their decisions on education; involvement in the planning and evaluation of their instruction (Self-concept).
• 4.Adults are most interested in learning subjects having immediate relevance to their work and/or personal lives (Readiness).
• 5.Adult learning is problem-centered rather than content-oriented (Orientation).
• 6.Adults respond better to internal versus external motivators (Motivation).
Expanded Resources
Learning Outside the School
• Play is learning• Learning becomes play• Dopamine and Learning• Learning is addictive
- Prof Diana Laurillard, Education and Skills Department, United Kingdom
Education becomes personalised and offers choice
Part 8. Personalising Education
Final Part. Your Questions
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