Bozen Bolzano Conference August 2011

Changing Education Paradigms – Sir Ken Robinsonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

“[They] are living in the most intensely stimulating period in the history of the earth… …beseiged with information and calls for attention from every platform: computers, iPhones, advertising hoardings, 100’s of TV channels… and we penalise students for getting distracted! From what? Boring stuff. At school for the most part. It may not be a coincidence totally that ADHD has risen in parallel with standardised testing”.

SIR KEN ROBINSON

Our genes have co-evolved with our inventions… As fast as we remake our tools, we remake ourselves. We are co-evolving with our technology, and so we have become deeply dependent on it. If all technology – every last knife and spear – were to be removed from this planet, our species would not last more than a few months. We are now symbiotic with technology. Kevin Kelly

A few -isms

Instructivism Constructivism Connectivism

An Instructivistic approach

• Teacher is the authority• Teacher is the knowledge giver• Students are passive• Students learn what the teacher tells them to

Constructivism

• Response to the Rise of web 2.0• Students are participants• Students are empowered to seek knowledge

& understanding for themselves in the context of their own unique, individual experiences

• Teachers become facilitators – guiding & coaching participants to inquire, explore, discover & generate new learning

Connectivism

• What we know is less important than our capacity to continue to learn more.

• Learning happens in informal, networked, technology-enabled areas

• Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate learning.

Connectivism

• Learning happens in many different ways. Courses, email, communities, conversations, web search, email lists, reading blogs, etc.

• Explicitly addresses how best to learn in today’s world of connectedness & access to ever-changing & expanding knowledge.

Link to related article

As we ask people to do more complicated, creative and sophisticated tasks, a management-model based on compliance is no use. What you want is engagement and a self-directed, or autonomous workforce is much better at this. DAN PINK

We need a more sustainable engagement economy – an economy that works by motivating and rewarding participants with intrinsic rewards… Positive emotions are the ultimate reward for participation.JANE MCGONIGAL

1.No specific coursebook

2.A negotiated syllabus

3.Greater levels of responsibility

4.Greater levels of autonomy

5.Integration of technology

6.Personalised learning structure

Advantages?

Disadvantages?

Does it work?

Yes, because…

No, because…

Popplet: http://popplet.com

Linoit: http://linoit.com

Voicethread: http://voicethread.com

Fotobabble: http://fotobabble.com

Intervue.me: http://intervue.me

Mailvu: http://mailvu.com

Vocaroo: http://vocaroo.com

Edmodo: http://edmodo.com

Wikispaces: http://wikispaces.com

Google plus: http://plus.google.com

One way or another, if human evolution is to go on, we shall have to learn to enjoy life more thoroughly.MIHÁLY CSÍKSZENTMIHÁLYI

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depressionBRIAN SUTTON-SMITH

Spent: http://playspent.org

Chore wars: http://chorewars.com

Thank you

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