What is an MLE? Community presentation

MLE community presentation

What’s all this about a

modern learning environment?

SOME BIG QUESTIONS…

•  What aspirations do you have for your children? •  What skills, knowledge, qualities will they require/ •  What role school school play in this?

WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO LEARN…?

Using language, symbols and text

Relating to others

Thinking

Participating and

contributing Managing self

HOW IS IT IMPORTANT TO LEARN?

Student autonomy and initiative accepted and encouraged.

Students engage in dialogue with

teacher and each other

Higher level thinking is encouraged Class uses raw data,

primary sources, physical and interactive

materials.

Knowledge and ideas emerge only from a situation in which learners have to draw

them out of experiences that have meaning and importance to them.

Teacher asks open-ended questions and allows wait

time for response

Students are engaged in

experiences that challenge

hypotheses

John Dewey – Constructivist Pedagogy, 1916

WHERE DOES LEARNING TAKE PLACE?

At home At my friend’s house

At the library

At school

WHO DO I LEARN WITH?

With friends in a group

At the computer

On my own in a quiet place

With my teacher

UBIQUITY

•  Picture here of iphone dispenser at the airport

CHALLENGE

Have we grasped how significantly student access to technology has changed their expectations as learners?

Agency

AGENCY

•  “The power to act” •  “Sense of ownership” •  “Executing and controlling

one’s own actions” •  “Self-efficacy” •  “Personalisation”

CHALLENGES

•  Do our learners have to adapt to our way of doing things, or do we adapt to theirs?

•  Are we focused on delivery – or learning experience?

>1 Billion

(100 billion connections)

>500 Million >150 Million

>14 million articles >6 Billion images

Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com

3.5 Billion views/day 70 hours/minute

>400 Million

Steve Whe

eler, U

niversity

of P

lymou

th, 2013 >170 Million (55 million posts per day)

SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN 2013

Remember this?

Desks in rows

Learning in unison

Teacher desk prominent

Blackboard as focus of attention

Poor light, ventilation

Copy, read, absorb, rote…

AN EXPANDING VIEW OF LEARNING… The current

education act and policy is focused

almost exclusively on this quadrant

A NEW WAY OF THINKING…

•  Cave: for private concentration. •  Camp fire: group process. •  Watering hole: encounters and impulses. •  Sandpit: experimentation and practical work. •  Mountaintop: presentation of progress and

discoveries.

Source: Prakash Nair

CAVES: PRIVATE CONTEMPLATION

CAMPFIRE: GROUP PROCESSES

WATERING HOLE: ENCOUNTERS AND IMPULSES

SANDPIT: EXPERIMENTATION

MOUNTAINTOP: PRESENTATION

CHALLENGES

•  How adequately do our learning spaces cater for the type of learning we are wanting our children to experience?

•  Do our current spaces work against the things we’re trying to achieve?

SCHOOL SPATIAL TYPOLOGIES

tradi;onal school plan separate classrooms opening off corridors

large, open undifferen;ated space

separate classrooms linked to shared central space

mul;-‐op;on space made up of many diverse, discrete but connected spaces / seDngs

SCHOOL SPATIAL TYPOLOGIES

Source: Mary Featherstone

duration of activities?

documentation of activities?

what furniture, equipment, resources?

what services are required? what surfaces are required? what floor, levels area?

ambience, climate control?

degree of enclosure?


Derek Wenmoth Email: [email protected]

Blog: http://blog.core-ed.org/derek Skype: <dwenmoth>

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