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Learning for digital natives connected to life! Kingdom of Bhutan session June 2014. A wake up call for acacemics for by Lukas Ritzel an honorary member of All India Association for Educational Research ( aiaer.net/ )
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Learning for digital natives connected to life
By Lukas Ritzel, Luzern, Switzerland, June 27, 2014
Academic References: Grenoble Graduate School of business, Harward extension, Asian Institute of TechnologyBusiness References: Accenture global consultantHighlights: Purple Cow award winner, TEDx speaker, management thinking mistakes app in store .. And a lecture to bright people gathered in mystique Bhutan
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3 facts which influence education beyond 2014
• Smart or not so smart machines• Microworlds of learning• Augmented learning
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Good news!
• Education gets better• Digital natives know more than their parents
(Don Tapscott)– “The smartest generation ever”
http://dontapscott.com/tag/digital-natives/
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Bad news!
• Nobody can cooperate with the speed of knowledge
• We get dumb and dumper by the day– Kjell A. Nordström
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So how can we prepare our future thinkers and managers best?
• Don’ learn facts and figures, don’t plan• Learn how to search and find the answer right
on the spot, right when you need them• (side effect: more time for other skills to learn)
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How to do? Google it
• Today’s students learn quick on how to handle new information– Can I re-google it? > Yes > forget it asap– Can I NOT re-google it? > Store immediate
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There is all here what is needed, Internet gets mobile, right now!
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Some countries leapfrog completely into a mobile hi-speed internet
• This is again good news for India and many other countries
http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-News/Indias-leapfrogging-mobile-development-an-opportunity-for-Israeli-companies-326872
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What about Bhutan?
• Internet enabled since 1999
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English is the dominant business language
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorieclark/2012/10/26/english-the-language-of-global-business/
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... again good news for India
http://www.ef.edu/__/~/media/efcom/epi/2014/full-reports/ef-epi-2013-report-master-new.pdf
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What about Bhutan?
• Still some space for improvement
http://www.southasianmedia.net/stories/bhutan/english-language-media/bhutanese-students-can-t-speak-english-as-expected-study-shows-story
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Asking a machine?Good idea?
• It already once went wrong in a very famous science fiction movie:
• HAL 9000 is a fictional character in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. The primary antagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a sentient computer (or artificial intelligence) that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.
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How good is Google in giving you the right answers?
• Not so smart Google Switzerland
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What about Google Canada? .. and more sophisticated search algorithms
• More to come: check Wolfram|Alpha which introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—
• not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, linguistic analysis and methods.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/about.html
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How influencial is Google?
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What if we ask a simple question like “Switzerland” in the Google image search?
• Hardly any surprise, mountains, landscapes, snow and blue sky
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Guess where is this?
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Or this?
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Most of you have not been there and you may never want to go there?
• Partly because of Google
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• Because this is what Google shows to you for pages over pages when you google «Iraq»
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Therefore we may ask the question, can we trust Google, can we trust the machine?
• What will this be for a world if we base our decision on google-ing for it?
• .. and is it really all there, the big Ocean of free borderless internet?
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Are you aware of the filter bubble?
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• There is a famous TEDx video “Beware online “filter bubbles” with Eli Pariser. He talks about the fact that we get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview.
• Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. The main reason for the existence of this filter bubble is the fact that the algorithms that are shaping our digital world are too simple-minded, rather than too smart.
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The YOU-Internet distorts and limits
http://www.ghacks.net/2012/10/15/googles-filter-bubble-is-a-scary-thing/
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Based on your prior activities, the Web knows you better and better
http://blog.newswhip.com/index.php/2013/02/are-living-filter-bubble
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Must we complain?
• it's something we exhibit naturally and encourage. Indeed, it's just a demand which is now meeting new bounties of supply.
• Knowing that we, as a species, are inclined this way, is it any wonder that the Filter Bubble exists? Or that it is becoming more powerful with each new app update and data stream?
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What to learn?
• Clever (critical) usage of the ‘machine’• Making students aware of the chances and the
dangers of current powerful search available• Invest in softskills (critical thinking, creativity
& sustainability)
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Mobile partners with learning
http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/03/30/amazing-new-learning-with-nokia-life-education-partnerships
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What to learn?
• Create and collaborate in mobile learning activities
• Ensure the availability of micro learning components in a edutaining way to support the mindset and interest of today’s digital natives
• Create the Angry Bird of learning
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But as well advanced technologies themselves will transform future education
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Open up new worlds
• Using visual cues in the environment, AR uses mobile devices to overlay a digital world on top of the real world.
• Projects like HealthCARe enable students to gain contextual information on health care issues simply by pointing their phone at an object or space
Watch for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMWdFadqjg0
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Augmented Learning• AR will play an increasing
role in teaching and learning, as well as in the way institutions provide support services and information to students and staff. The interactions between the physical and virtual environments of the student will become increasingly blurred, as will the boundaries between the body and the device.
Watch AR and Math http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uycBwTXdKM
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Form Factors
• The emergence of Augmented Reality as a serious mobile trend for education also marks the growing intimacy between the device and our bodies. The augmentation of realities will be mirrored with a augmentation between the device and the body. Increasingly the ‘form-factors’ we are used to (the mobile phone, tablet) will gradually be superseded by new forms: earpieces, glasses and sensors.
http://www.glassappsource.com/google-glass/google-glass-can-used-education.html
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What to learn?
• Keep updated on wearable technologies and be ensured that it will have a huge influence on education and lead to a more connected learning for all students of this world
• Same as the internet with tools like Wikipedia has opened up the libraries and knowledge of the world to anybody (free, anytime, anywhere) waerable technologies combined with augmented reality will bring the whole world to just everybody (experienceable, interactive)
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KAADINCHHEY LA!
Lukas Ritzel – connect with me through LinkedIn http://ch.linkedin.com/in/lukasritzel