The Learning Futures team focuses on strategic innovations that advance the mission of the university. The team helps shape the future of learning and teaching at the university through human and technological capacity building and promotes continuous improvement using learning analytics.
I can’t lay out a neat plan of how Higher Education can offer technology support for innovation in the future but I do think that the ideas and practices put forward by Ben Werdmuller, Joss Winn, Jim Groom, Tim Owens and Lauren Blumfield can inform a richer possible future than one that relies on Silicon Valley to provide outsourced services or neat packaged solutions.
Where will HE institutions turn for technology services in future?
Of course, I haven’t mentioned MOOCs and their providers but that’s another story.
A new generation of schools are blending the best of personalized learning and project-based learning to address these challenges. They value deeper learning and development of success skills (growth mindset and social emotional learning) and track competency in all outcome areas. They use a variety of grouping and scheduling strategies to offer a rich and varied learning experience. They provide customized supports to build individualized skill fluency to allow students with learning gaps to fully engage in challenging projects.
We’ve previously reported how AI is developing rapidly and gaining the ability to do things like defeat human champions at the game of Go, describe photos in words for vision-impaired users, detect cyber attacks and even write novels and financial reports.
That’s old hat – there’s now an AI that can write screenplays. It’s named itself Benjamin and its first film, a sci-fi short, has just been released on YouTube for the world to enjoy.
‘Sunspring’ was directed by Oscar Sharp and stars Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch. It was made for the 48-Hour Film Challenge at the Sci-Fi London festival.
Jerome S. Bruner, had just turned 99 less than a week before this video was filmed He was born Oct. 1, 1915, New York, N.Y., He is an American psychologist and educator whose work on perception, learning, memory, and other aspects of cognition in young children has, along with the related work of Jean Piaget, influenced the American educational system.Bruner’s father, a watch manufacturer, died when Bruner was 12 years old. Bruner studied at Duke University in Durham, N.C. (B.A., 1937), and then at Harvard University, where he received a doctorate in psychology in 1941. After serving as an expert on psychological warfare for the U.S. Army in France during World War II, Bruner returned to Harvard in 1945, becoming professor of psychology there (1952). From 1960 to 1972 he also directed the university’s Center for Cognitive Studies. He left Harvard to become professor of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford (1972–80). He then became concurrently a professor at the New School for Social Research, New York City, and a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities, New York University.
Bruner’s studies helped to introduce Piaget’s concept of developmental stages of cognition into the classroom. His much-translated book The Process of Education (1960) was a powerful stimulus to the curriculum-reform movement of the period. In it he argued that any subject can be taught to any child at any stage of development, if it is presented in the proper manner. According to Bruner, all children have natural curiosity and a desire to become competent at various learning tasks; when a task as presented to them is too difficult, however, they become bored. A teacher must, therefore, present schoolwork at a level so as to challenge the child’s current developmental stage. Bruner also studied perception in children, concluding that children’s individual values significantly affect their perceptions.
I don’t have many answers in this brave new world, but I feel like I can draw one firm line. There is a profound difference between a local expert teacher using the Internet and all its resources to supplement and improve his or her lessons, and a teacher facilitating the educational plans of massive organizations. Why isn’t this line being publicly and sharply delineated, or even generally discussed? This line should be rigorously guarded by those who want to keep education professionals in the center of each classroom. Those calling for teachers to "transform their roles," regardless of motive or intentionality, are quietly erasing this line—effectively deconstructing the role of the teacher as it’s always been known.
Meanwhile, back on my campus, I wonder about the advice I should give a new teacher. Should I encourage this aspiring educator to fight for his or her role as the local expert, or simply get good at facilitating the best lessons available? Should I assure this person about my union and the notion of tenure, or should I urgently encourage him or her to create a back-up plan?
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The road ahead will be challenging, but an overhaul of education is vital for everyone, the OECD's Andreas Schleicher tells The Memo.
We recently told you about Canada’s blossoming tech scene. Now, some of the world’s biggest education influencers are gathering in Toronto to shape our schools of the future.
Andreas Schleicher, a Director at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is just one acclaimed speaker who’ll be tackling themes of big data, gamification, social media, coding and digital culture at this week’s Education Technology Summit 2016.
Investing in education technology is no longer an option, but a necessity, says the German statistician. The world had better listen up.
Doltone House in Sydney is playing host to FUTUREPROOF 2016, a meeting of higher education minds to debate and discuss the major issues affecting the Australian university and VET sectors. Speakers including VCs Barney Glover and Peter Coaldrake, Senator Kim Carr, consultants Peter Noonan and Claire Field, and HECS architect Bruce Chapman are setting the agenda, and Campus Review is here to bring you all the news and insights as they happen.
Watch how ePlus helped Charter Oak State College build a strong and agile IT infrastructure. From creating a 21st Century Classroom to designing, deploying, and managing a state-of-the art phone system and FlexPod data center, ePlus has empowered Charter Oak to handle the rapid pace of technology change today—and be prepared for the future.
Let's follow Crowley the Crocodile as he goes about his day in the year 2030, from the moment his bitcoin-powered bioalarm clock wakes him, until he eats his late night pizza ordered using a rating service without a human owner.
Learning technology is just about everywhere in education. Universities are replete with lecture capture tools, interactive media, web based content and person…
while this presentation is really quite in depth (74 slides) it covers some important points. Semms like something that would be interesting to share with colleagues as it really covers a number of topics that apply to modern learners.
This is the complete video from my keynote on learning technology and the future at LT15 in London (Feb 3 2015), discussing the kend trends that will impact ...
The Trend Report also contains a lot of practical advice and tools that schools can use to create their ICT policy and making smart investments. Thus the Trend Report provides insight into the three elements that make a good ICT policy includes:
Make sure your base is in order and that everything works. Teacher and student should be able to use ICT where and when appropriate. Make a conscious transition to digital learning materials, utilized data using learning analytics and ensure the privacy of students is protected. Prepare students for a labor market in which robotics competition with human labor.
The soon to be implemented Australian Curriculum aims to integrate a futures orientation across subject areas. Guidelines and support for this specific initiative are being finalized. Only a little is known about the current teaching of a futures orientation or of secondary teacher interest, understanding and support for this important but challenging direction. This initial study surveyed 115 teachers from twelve secondary schools in Western Australia and aims to provide a basis for implementing the futures oriented elements into the year 7 to 10 curriculum. Most questions of respondents related directly to elements of the Australian Curriculum’s cross-curriculum priority of sustainability and of the general capabilities; these were extended to include a general appraisal of teachers’ interest in broader global issues,their self-efficacy in pursuing their interests and their suggestions for curriculum support. In overview, this initial study has shown that many Western Australian teachers are very receptive to developing a futures orientation into their classrooms in keeping with the rationale in the new national curriculum. It provides a foundation for follow up studies, supporting existing school interest and exploring specific opportunities for enhancing a futures orientation. It raises the possibility of engaging further with highly motivated teachers and schools in implementing the futures orientation components of the Australian Curriculum through its cross-curriculum priorities and general capabilities.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
Interesting to see that the STEM areas seem to find it more difficult to engage with future oriented real world contexts. The Arts seem to be the only area where teachers feel they exceed their preferred time commitment for considering sustainability.
Discover more! http://research.curtin.edu.au/ Nestled in the highly desirable Australian city of Perth and among the commercial hubs of Asia, Curtin University has earned its reputation as a world-class innovator.
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Curtin Business School (CBS) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCIWA) have partnered to offer internships to students who have completed 200 credits or more of their business degree.
Professor Tony Travaglione, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Curtin Business School, said the business internships will give students credit towards their degree and see them develop the industry experience and practical skills they will need when they enter the workforce.
“We need to let go of the need to measure absolutely everything,” Melville-Jones said. “We need to provide opportunities for students, within the constraints of curricula, to find ways they can develop different skills that don’t have to be measured.”
In social science, there is an adage known as Campbell’s Law, devised by American social scientist Donald T. Campbell. It states: “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
Translated from academic speak and put into the context of schooling, this means that when we try to measure students’ learning, the measurement becomes the teachers’ goal, rather than the teaching of students.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
If the measurement of learning were subordinated to a different system such that teachers were not burdened by the collection of metrics then there might a way to have your cake an eat it...
By 2020 Millennials will make up over a third of the global workforce. That’s one reason so many reports about them exist. Some say they are disloyal, self-absorbed and lazy, while others claim they’re a generation of digital entrepreneurs and innovators. Some aim to dispel the myths others have created. Just type “Millennials are...” into a Google search to see the stereotypes.
This is not just another Millennial report. This report presents new findings with fresh insights from the perspective of both employers and employees. As world of work experts, we have nearly 30,000 employees advising 400,000 clients on hiring decisions and talent development every year. We find work for 3.4 million people—about half of whom are Millennials.
We carried out quantitative research across 25 countries surveying 19,000 Millennials, including 8,000 ManpowerGroup associate employees and more than 1,500 of our own hiring managers. We asked what they look for in a job, what development opportunities they seek and what would make them stay with an employer. We wanted to understand how different they are or aren’t from the rest of the workforce and from generations before them. We wanted to ensure that the sample represented all working Millennials; not just the top percent of tech-savvy earners, but also the graduates and non-graduates across all industries, income and education levels.
HRL Laboratories, LLC in Malibu, California has been awarded funding for a two-year project to test whether low-current electrical brain stimulation could be used to accelerate learning while decreasing training time and costs.
Their goal is to develop a man-portable system to boost learning during waking and memory consolidation during sleep, thereby increasing a person's ability to quickly integrate and accurately recall information.
In fact, the team will be the first to use "next-generation electrode-embedded head caps to apply high-definition transcranial current stimulation (HD-tCS) in order to tag specific memories and skills during learning", according to the project leader, Dr. Praveen Pilly.
Building on research supported by the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning initiative, a new series “Connected Youth and Digital Futures,” is debuting its first two books — By Any Media Necessary: The New Activism of American Youth and The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age. This series offers books that describe the ways that the day-to-day lives and futures of young people are being reconfigured at the intersection of civil and political reform, transformation in employment and education and the penetration of digital technologies across all domains of social and personal life.
Notes from: Personalizing 21st Century Education: A Framework for Student Success Dan Domenech, Morton Sherman, John L. Brown Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Brand. 2016
Last week, more than 2000 people played IFTF’s most recent Foresight Engine game, Learning Is Earning 2026, following a keynote by game designer Jane McGonigal at SXSWedu. The starting point for the game was a scenario about a blockchain-based educational system called The Ledger, which uses edublocks to certify learning from all kinds of activities: https://youtu.be/DcP78cLPGtE…;
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