Simon Breakspear WRPPA keynote1

Leading the Future of Learning:

Simon Breakspear

Swifter, Higher & Stronger

Why seek to become

Swifter, Higher & Stronger

in learning?

The FUTURE is not what it used to be

Change is the only constant

Re-rise of Asia

Future supply of college graduates

OECD

We need everybody learning.

It’s not 1995 anymore...

We didn’t have...

1. ebooks & Amazon2. Google3. Ebay4. GPS5. Twitter, Facebook and mySpace6. Skype 7. Digital Photography8. itunes, iphone, ipad & ‘angry birds’9. The cloud

This is just the beginning... not the end.

New tools

Empowerment

death of distance

Are we preparing our students for a future that no longer exists?

Students are not who we used to be

S0 What?

C21st Opportunities + Challenges for learning

RE-imagine Learning

I new vision for learning & teaching --> Swifter, Higher & Stronger

Focus on the old ‘policy menu’

I can’t understand why people are

frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened

by the old ones.

Stuck in same...

Current paradigm of Learning +

Technology

Current paradigm of Learning +

TechnologyX

A new...

ParadigmCulture

EnvironmentEcosystem

.. of learning.

design for learning1

learning Stages

6. APPLY

5. CONNECT

4. EMBED

3. UNDERSTAND

2. STRUCTURE

1. COLLECT

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Finding flow

Base CampFree range chicken farm

Learning Village

Metaphors

Shape the system to the learner.

Mass personalisation2

Mass standardisation

1. Find and leverage unique genius2. Treat diversity as a resource3. Provide choice and coaching4. Individual learning plans5. Assets-based approach6. Answer the why and tap into their agenda.

Kunskappskolan (Sweden)

> Personalisation> Responsibility

Khan Academy

“If you have a body you are an

athlete.”

“If you have a brain you are a

learner.”

Open UP!

Enlist students as co-creators of learning

3

Consumers --> Producers

Users --> Designers

New Expectations + New Capacities to Contribute

RE-imagine Learning

I new vision for learning & teaching --> Swifter, Higher & Stronger

We need to build educators’ faith in their own creative capacities to generate re-imagine

Challenge schooling-as-usual.

Question in the pursuit of better

What is your question?

How could we.....?

RE-imagine Learning

I new vision for learning & teaching --> Swifter, Higher & Stronger