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Peter BryantLondon School of Economics@peterbryantHEhttp//www.peterbryant.org
Challenging educational paradigms: The changing role of the learning technologist
#futurehappens
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed
William Gibson
One one hand…‘Six years ago, for the first time, the number of “things” connected to the internet surpassed the number of people … Experts estimate that, as of this year, there will be 25 billion connected devices, and by 2020, 50 billion’.
US Federal Trade Commission Report 2016
Mobile ownership in Africa is on the increase, including smartphone ownership (but not as fast)
On the other…
Internet access is not universal
Source: internet.org 2014
Neither is affordable mobile data
Source: internet.org 2014
Data poverty“Information is also a vital form of aid in itself. People need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods and resources. It may be the only form of disaster preparedness that the most vulnerable can afford. And yet it is very much neglected.” Red Cross 2005
https://www.flickr.com/photos/whiteafrican/3329178301
‘Now that we're in that future, of course, plastics are no big deal. Is digital destined for the same banality? Certainly. Its literal form, the technology, is already beginning to be taken for granted, and its connotation will become tomorrow's commercial and cultural compost for new ideas. Like air and drinking water, being digital will be noticed only by its absence, not its presence.’ (Negroponte, 1998)
What kinds of experiences do learning technologies provide?
Here is one view…
‘Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Do you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of health care…such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis.’
Peter Drucker -1997
And how does that translate as an experience?
Modern pedagogy/teaching is
often…
SEQUENTIALSCAFFOLDEDALIGNEDSTRUCTUREDSTRATIFIED
LEARNING
EXPERIENCING
LIVING
ACQUIRING
CONNECTING
RARELY ARE
LEARNING
SHARINGCONNECTING
CHANGING
The Museum of Broken Relationships
Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation.
“No museum has ever made me feel more connected to everyone else in the world before.”
that achieves the objectivesAND
builds on the art principles of line, space, colour, texture and
unityMalcolm Knowles 1980
CHANGINGPEDAGOGYLEARNINGTEACHINGEXPERIENCES
FOUND
IDENTITY
MAKING
Tensions
Affordances v ResistancesTechnologies v PedagogiesNow v FutureSystems v CloudService v Strategy
The use of technology is the exclusive privilege of the technically adept, the
young or the innovator
Technology is a ‘nice to have’, not an essential,
integrated part of the action
Learning has been and always will be the same and new
technology simply enhances and builds on the successes of
the past
The blurry myths of technological change
We need to focus on ‘the basics’
Innovators are ’out there’ on the fringe
The ‘harsh’ reality
The agility of society and learners to adapt and innovate their learning with and through
technology often far outstrips the ability of the educational institution to keep up
Existing practice and innovation are pitted
against each other as a contest to the death
Investment is rarely commensurate with outcome and impact
Learning, teaching and role of the learning technologist have changed
Strategic review Institutional restructure Pedagogical redesignThe TEFPoor NSS/student experience resultsBudget cutsChange in leadership
An LSE/UAL hack #futurehappens
WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE
THELEARNING TECHNOLOGIST?EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPER?TEACHER? HoD? BELIEVER?
Rule 1: We are teaching and learning focused and institutionally committed
Rule 2: What we talk about is institutionally/nationally agnostic but is all about making the institution better
Rule 3: We are in the room with the decision makers. What we decide is critical to the future of our institutions. We are the institutionRule 4: Despite the chatter, all the tech ‘works’ - the digital is here, we are digital institutions. Digital is not the innovation.
Rule 5: We are here to build not smash or protect or defend
“…an education that is understood in complexity terms cannot be conceived in terms of preparation for the future. Rather, it must be construed in terms of participation in the creation of possible futures” Davis and Sumara (2009)
Traditionalapproaches
changeto makinginstitutional
The LSE experience
• Tensions between systems support and
innovation agenda• Delivering on our previous
promise of ‘solutions in a box’
• Tensions around who owns ‘pedagogy’, ‘technology’ and
‘learning’• Get the current stuff or
the basics right before you start ‘playing’
(Boys/Girls with toys problem)
• Shifting the pioneers to the business as usual
Scaled projects that have institutional
impact(SCALE)
Connected approaches that cross
function, discipline and faculty
(CONNECTION)Stimulating change
through high profile, highly visible interventions
(STIMULUS)Projects that make an impact with learners,
teachers and the institution(IMPACT)
- And what do they do in the middle out?
Thanks to Audrey Watters who found this image from 1973
She?
LEARNING SPACES
ExperimentChange the conversationChange the processCollaborateBring the word inFail and Succeed
RENEWALINNOVATIONASPIRATIONTRANSFORMATION
LSE INNOVATORShttp://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lti/lse-innovator/
Creative hubSeeding innovationReward and recognitionPositive messagesInspirationChange practice
LSE 2020
VoiceImpactPerceptionsPositive messagesDigital storytelling
I believe everything we dream can come to pass through our union we can turn the world around we can turn the earth's revolution we have the power
People have the power ...
Patti Smith, People have the Power 1985
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