UK Learning: Rethinking spaces for collaboration and future learning in primary and secondary...

UK Learning:Rethinking spaces for collaboration and future

learning in primary and secondary schools.21 October, 2014

Don’t be afraid to take a big step when indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. [David Lloyd George]

Stephen Harris@stephen_hsharris@nbcs.nsw.edu.auFounder & Director SCIL

Are our schools adequately preparing our students for the

future?

A simple question

Let’s go back just over a decade to

2000

In 2000text messaging introduced to AT&T

first Hybrid carGPS goes mainstream

J Phone first phone/cameraTripAdvisor founded

In 2001Wikipedia launched

In 2002Moodle released

In 2003Apple opens iTunes store

WordPress launchedMore camera phones sold than

digital camerasHuman genome project completed

In 2004Facebook launched

Google became publicly listed company

In 2005YouTube launched

Nokia largest brand for phone/camera

In 2006Twitter launched

Nintendo Wii Launched

In 2007iPhone launched

In 2010s3D printers became mainstreamDrones become commonplace

Wearable technology

let’s jump ahead

2030

Autonomous vehicles• 2010s driverless cars emerge• By 2020, Volvo envisages having cars in

which passengers would be immune from injuries.

• By 2020, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Nissan, BMW and Renault all expect to sell vehicles that can drive themselves at least part of the time.

• By 2025, Daimler and Ford expect fully autonomous vehicles on the market.

• By 2035, IHS Automotive report says will be the year most self-driving vehicles will be operated completely independent from a human occupant’s control.

2035

2035 timeline • Final collapse of European Union• Russia is a global food superpower• Establishment of first manned lunar bases• Economic decline of Middle East• Arctic ice free in September• Distributed propulsion systems revolutionise air travel• Robots dominate battlefields• Researchers and investors hope that space elevator

will be built• Fully functioning artificial eyes are available• Fights over control of water resources• China the superpower in Asia and Africa

start preschool

2015+3+7+6+4=

2035graduate from tertiary

Can we predict what students will need

20 years out?

Can we predict what technology will have been developed and become

commonplace?

Will education institutions as we currently know

them exist beyond this decade?

2014

That’s like trying to strap a rocket engine onto an elephant so that it can move faster. Good luck.

John P. Kotter from ‘XLR8’

‘The situation will no longer be improved by tweaking the usual methodology or adding turbochargers to a single hierarchical system.

Education 2030“We are transitioning from a teaching model to a learning model. Teaching requires experts. Learning only requires coaches.With increasing online assets in place, we are moving quickly into the new frontier of a teacherless education system.”

Jobs Going Away New Jobs Created- Teachers - Coaches- Trainers - Course designers- Professors - Learning camps

http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/02/2-billion-jobs-to-disappear-by-2030/

Learning has already

democratised to the point that no longer

can we control what students learn.

We have gone through this hourglass in history when a paradigm shift occurred and yet many have not realised this.

What is

paradigm

shift?

A paradigm shift is, according to Thomas Kuhn, a change in the

basic assumptions …

a profound change in a fundamental model

or perception of events ...

… invent the future, don’t prevent the future

…

the heart of the problem

Move away from the ‘factory-style’ paradigm

separate roomsseparate and separated educators

separated class groupsseparate desks & chairs or rows

separate preparation

separate

Will there be a role for schools into the future?

YES, if we act now!

1. Schools will be the cornerstone of the community. Places which combine a relational heart with a love for learning.

2. Schools will be the ‘base station’ for everyone’s learning journeys.

3. Students will take some courses directly with the school, but may just as easily be undertaking some study with a range of other providers.

4. Schools will be part of the ‘real world’.

5. Students will learn within a community that seeks to nurture and grow them.

6. As lead learners, teachers will have a critical role as the expert, guide, coach and mentor.

Tool Box

How up-to-date is your toolbox?

Tool Box

useful

Tool Boxcommunity1

2

3

connection

collaboration

Tool Box

we – me balance

Tool BoxSome

‘nuts and bolts’ of accelerating change

From teaching to learning; from teacher to teams; from passive to active; from batch to personal; from management to engagement; from control to

empowerment

Align

resourcespeople budgets vision design

New roles

collaboration coachchange agent

pedagogic coachsustainability coach

are an element in the equation

Physical spaces

What does it mean to

be mobile?

3 screen day

visualise ideas:

What is the

pedagogy of the new paradigm?

campfires – 1 to many

working together – watering hole cave – individual work

experiment – sandpitanywhere, anytime – digital space

Adapted from David Thornburg

professional spaces

write-ablesurfaces

staff workspaces

visible learning

Designing for future focus

What skills?1.Sense Making2.Social Intelligence3.Novel and Adaptive Thinking4.Cross-Cultural Competency5.Computational Thinking6.New-Media Literacy7.Transdisciplinarity8.Design Mindset9.Cognitive Load Management10.Virtual Collaboration (Source : The Institute for the Future (IFTF), June 2011)

Change Managementvision buy in skills incentives resources action plan = change

buy in skills incentives resources action plan = confusion

vision skills incentives resources action plan = sabotage

vision buy in incentives resources action plan = anxiety

vision buy in skills resources action plan = resistance

vision buy in skills incentives action plan = frustration

vision buy in skills incentives resources = treadmill

Adapted from Knoster, T. (1991, June). Factors in managing complex change.

Design is changing!

Are you changing too?