Tai Tapu School – 17 June, 2015

Preparing learners for their future

HOPES FOR OUR KIDS

WHAT WILL THEY NEED TO LEARN?

OUR CHANGING WORLD

•  Our world is changing and changing rapidly.   •  What must we do to prepare students for living and

working in the 21st century? •  How must our schools and teachers change to meet

these opportunities and challenges?

THE FUTURE…

•  Food supply •  Water •  Cryogenics •  Nano-technology

•  Cultural assimilation •  Human rights •  Poverty •  Religious intolerance

COPING WITH CHANGE

Pre-1980 1984 2000 2012

Typewriter Colour TV Ball point pen Gestetner Fax Landline NZ Post

Desktop computer Photocopier VHS recorder Library EFTPOS

Internet Laptop Mobile phone Digital camera YouTube

Touch Wear Talk Think

EDUCATION IS THE POWERHOUSE

•  Education is the powerhouse of modern societies •  We need highly-skilled people •  With increasingly sophisticated skills and digital

competencies

http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367

The surprising jobs you’ll be doing by the 2030s

•  Robot counsellor •  Rewilder •  Garbage designer •  Neighbourhood watch specialist •  Simplicity expert •  Healthcare navigator •  Nostalgist •  Telesurgeon •  Solar technology specialist •  Aquaponic fish farmer

http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367

THE DIGITAL CHALLENGE

•  What must we do to prepare students for living and working in the 21st century?

•  What skills, knowledge and dispositions will they require?

UBIQUITY

MOBILE TRENDS

•  mLearning – in the classroom and workplace

•  BYOD – Bring your own device

•  “snack” learning •  Location-based

integration and workplace training

•  Cloud computing •  Rewind learning

http://www.bottomlineperformance.com/6-mobile-learning-trends-that-grew-in-2012/

CHALLENGE

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

AGENCY

•  “Having choices and the ability to act on those choices.”

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

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

STUDENT EXPECTATIONS

Washor, E and Mohkowski, C (2013) Leaving to learn

Do my teachers really know about me and my interests and talents?

Do I find what the school is teaching relevant to my interests?

Do I have opportunities to apply what I am learning in real world settings and contexts?

Do I feel appropriately challenged in my learning?

Can I pursue my learning out of the standard sequence?

Do I have sufficient time to learn at my own pace?

Do I have real choice about what, where and how I learn?

Do I have opportunities to explore and make mistakes?

Do I have opportunities to engage deeply in my learning and to practice the skills I need to lean?

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?

•  “Having a sense of being a part of something that is bigger than ones self”

•  It’s not about the technology - it’s all about being connected. Devices and gadgets are less important than the ability to be connected.

•  Connectedness is the capacity to benefit from connectivity for personal, social, work or economic purposes

•  This is having an impact on all areas of human activity

CONNECTEDNESS

CHALLENGES

•  In what ways do we promote the notion of connectedness for our students?

•  What implcations are there for global participation, cybercitizentship, network literacy?

Practices

Principles

Moral purpose

WHY?

HOW?

WHAT?

Derived from values/beliefs. Captured in policy statements.

What you stand for. Mutually agreed and owned by the school community. Shared beliefs/values. Made explicit in mission/vision statement.

Lived expression of your values.

Practices

Principles

Moral purpose

WHY?

HOW?

WHAT?

Derived from values/beliefs. Captured in policy statements.

What you stand for. Mutually agreed and owned by the school community. Shared beliefs/values. Made explicit in mission/vision statement.

Lived expression of your values.

Derek Wenmoth Email: derek@core-ed.org

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