Agenda Intro: Nine Shift and Knowledge Workers 1. Mission of Education 2. Curriculum 3. New Role for...

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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

The Divide 4.4

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?

Part 2. Curriculum

Curriculum as Syllabus

• A body of knowledge to be transmitted

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.

“We only think when we are confronted with a problem.” --John Dewey

Curriculum as a Process

Part 3. New Role for Teachers

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

Part 4. The 21 New Pedagogical Concepts

Part 5. Grading: Tests every week

Part 6. Grade only learning and knowledge

The Carnegie Unit and CEU disappear

- Prof Diana Laurillard, Education and Skills Department, United Kingdom

Education becomes personalised and offers choice

Part 8. Personalising Education

Part 9.What Schools Look Like

Learning Commons

Coburg Senior High School, Melbourne, Australia, Don Collins, Principal

Part 10. Some Predictions for 2030

Final Part. Your Questions

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