Professor Peter Twining at UTAS 12Dec13

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Digital technology strategies:emerging trends & cross-cultural comparisons

Peter Twining @PeterT #utasictProfessor of Education (Futures)

University of TasmaniaDecember 2013

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The English context

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The background

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ICT in schools is a mess

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Gove also said …

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Every day we work in environments which are completely different to those of twenty-five or a hundred years ago.

A Victorian schoolteacher could enter a 21st century classroom and feel completely at home. Whiteboards may have eliminated chalk dust, chairs may have migrated from rows to groups, but a teacher still stands in front of the class, talking, testing and questioning.

But that model won’t be the same in twenty years’ time. It may well be extinct in ten.

Our school system has not prepared children for this new world.

Gove @ BETT 2012http://is.gd/fX4ElN


But Luckin et al stated …

6Luckin et al (2012) Decoding Learning: The Proof, Promise and Potential of Digital Education. London: Nesta. http://is.gd/2KWb2Q

Much existing teaching practice may well not benefit greatly from new technologies.

(Luckin et al 2012 p.64)

Uncertainty


Knowledgeage skills

Confusion re terminology

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Computing

IT

Information TechnologyCom

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Techn

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Technology Enhanced Learning

TEL

Digital technology

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Definitions

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ComputingComputer ScienceInformation Technology (IT)Digital Literacy

Embedded TechnologyTechnology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Knowledge age skills

Adapted from Royal Society’s 2012 Report on Computing in Schools (http://is.gd/UEObak)

Digital technology


ICT


The English context


Confusion & uncertainty

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‘Mobile’ technology revolution



Innovate


Meta-

analysis

22 case studies

Vital case study methodology

Case studiespublished by researchers

Trends & strategic guidance


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22 case studies





Embedded technology

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Innovate

Innovation

18Twining (2012) The Education Innovation Frameworkhttp://edfutures.net/index.php?title=EdIF

What impact do you want an innovation to have on• the curriculum (what we teach)? • pedagogy (how we teach)?

Could these impacts be achieved in any other way?(Is the innovation essential?)

What impact do you want the innovation to have on

Curriculum(What we teach)

Pedagogy(How we teach)

Is the innovation essential? 19




Is the innovation essential?

No

Yes

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No

Fundamentally unchanged

Increased efficiency and/or effectiveness

Yes

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Support





No



Curriculum and/or pedagogy are different, but these changes could realistically take place without the innovation

Yes

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Support

Extend






No



Curriculum and/or pedagogy are different, but these changes could realistically take place without the innovation

YesCurriculum and/or pedagogy are different, and these changes

could only realistically take place with the innovation

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Support

Extend

Transform

Twining (2012) The Education Innovation Frameworkhttp://edfutures.net/index.php?title=EdIF

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Innovation trends

Support Extend Transform

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Case Study 6

Large 3-11 primary schoolEnthusiastic ICT coordinator

Several 1:1 projects since 2008

95% 1:1 owned

since 2007

1:1 iPads in Yrs 5 & 6

Locked in trolleys

Average 30-60 mins use/day

Support

Pupils very good at ICT

Significant positive impact for a child on autistic spectrum

Less photocopying

LabGroup sets

Class sets 1:1 loan 1:1 owned BYOD BYOT

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Going mobile


Wired Wireless (closed)Wireless

(controlled)Wireless

(open)

LabGroup sets


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and wireless


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Case Study 10

11-18 Teaching SchoolVision: Improved teaching and learning, improved engagement, keep pace with changing world

Early days …

Spontaneity and sense of discovery (teachers & pupils)

Pupils report increased independence and motivation

1:1 iPads‘personal ownership’

Robust wireless infrastructure

TransformExtend

‘Pedagogy will change, you can’t help it’(Teacher)



(open)

LabGroup sets


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Who pays?


‘School’ Subsidised Home

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‘Traditionally’

‘School’Home

Allowed to be used in school

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1:1 schemes

‘School’

Subsidised

Home


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BYOD/BYOT

‘School’Home




(open)

LabGroup sets


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Who pays?

‘Local’ Servers VLE Cloud Cloud +



Formal CPD Informal CPD Learning organisation

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(open)

LabGroup sets


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Who pays?







(open)

LabGroup sets


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Who pays?



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Case Study 8

11-16 Secondary school

Vision: 21st Century learners‘Students working 80% to the teacher’s 20%’ (Head)

Early days …

Helps pace of lessons

Pupils highly motivated & on-task

Pedagogical innovatione.g. Reviewing practice in PE

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WebDav

TransformExtend



(open)

LabGroup sets


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Roles – supporting technology

ICT teachersDedicated technology

infrastructure teamDigital Leaders

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Case Study 3

11-16 Academy – new build Charismatic headEducational visionenabled by technology

1:1 since 2009

1:1 iPads late 2012‘personal ownership’

Use technology connected to our daily lives – thus consumer technology rather than restrictive and depersonalized learning-specialist technology

Significantly improved GCSE results since 2009

But …

‘New forms of understanding knowledge and learning don’t quite fit with current assessment methods’ (Yr11)

Transform

LabGroup sets


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Control

‘Learning technology’ Consumer devices





(open)



Manage YOT

LabGroup sets


Sage on the stageCollaborative resource designer

& Guide on the sideCo-learner

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Roles




Traditional class teachingIndependent &

personalised learningPupils teach



(open)



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LabGroup sets


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Openness

Internal External (staff) External (registered) Public






(open)







Manage YOT

LabGroup sets




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Innovation trends





Manage YOT






(open)






Innovate Should we go 1:1?


Australia (initial impressions)


Meta-

analysis

22 case studies





Meta-

analysis

22 case studies




Snapshot study methodology

13 studies

(11 so

far)


Meta-analysis

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Snapshot Study 1

New state secondary school – Yr8

‘Computer lab’ in every classroom

Keyboards are essential

Moving to eTextbooks (?)

1:1 Tablet PCs

A$200 contribution

(or stays in school)

Support

Devices not up to expectations Stick to tried & tested devices

Sustainability a huge challenge

LabGroup sets




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Manage YOT






(open)




What deviceDesktop Laptop ‘Tablet’ ‘Tablet’ +

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Snapshot Study 3

K-12 Independent Girls School (Yr7 +)

Global citizens (critical thinkers)

How did that happen? ➭ Trust?

From ‘Why?’ to ‘Why not?’

1:1 iPads from Jan 2014

BYOT

TransformExtend

LabGroup sets




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Manage YOT






(open)




Invisible?Desktop Laptop ‘Tablet’ ‘Tablet’ +


1:1 expectationSustainability?

Innovate BYOD / BYOT


EnglandShould we go 1:1?

Innovate

In spite of system

AustraliaHow do we sustain 1:1?



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