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Presentation at the Teach Less, Learn More conference hosted by the Singapore Ministry of Education on April 3, 2009.
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Learning 2.0:Passing the test of life in the 21st century
Kevin Walsh, CTO Oracle Asia R&D3 April 2009 Teach Less, Learn More Conference
This is my office
...And so is this.
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Beijing
Gurgaon
Singapore
Seoul
Perth
These are my co-workers
Future Oracle CTO, 1970“Yes, that really is me.”
Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana
School: St. Andrew the Apostle Primary
Homeroom Teacher : Mrs. Roach
Grades : Average Student (mostly)
Hobby : Taking stuff apart, sometimes putting it back together (if necessary)
Career objective:1) Astronaut2) Jet Fighter Pilot (if required for 1)
Work Experience: Lawn Mower (part time)
My Heroes
Social Media
3 TV Channels(3 hours/day)
5 LP Records(forbidden to touch)
My ‘Network’
It was simple and unreliable...
There was no iCQ, Just CQNot source code, but Morse CodeNot Broadband, but Single SidebandLess power than a light bulbcarried words around the globe.
...But it carried me far
Computers: Not exactly ‘personal’yet
11
My USD $100 “Laptop” (ca. 1972)
12
“Real Computers”
Predictions are tough
Clean MachineDream Machine
The 21st Century
Information & Communications Technology Grows Exponentially
15
21st Century Exponential Change
Exponential Growth:Infotech (computing and comm. technology)Nanotech (micro and nanoscale technology)Biotech (biotechnology, health care)Cognotech (brain sciences, human factors)Sociotech (remaining technology applications)
DRIVER:Intelligence (Negentropy)
ENGINE:MEST Compression
DYNAMIC:Evolutionary Development
CONSTRAINT:Some aspects of post-emergent and post-limit systems can’t be understood or guided by pre-singularity systems
= Emergence SingularitiesEP = Exponential Point (Knee)HP = Hyperbolic Point (Wall)
Exponential-Appearing Phase
Linear-Appearing Phase
Hyperbolic-Appearing
Phase(Not to Scale)
EP
HP
Source : Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near
21st CenturyKids
21st Century
Hero
Channels:∞
Attention Shift
Hours per week spent on consuming media
21st CenturyMedia
“The interactive nature of digital media will transform not just the way we teach, but more significantly, how students will learn - they will not just be passive recipients, but more fully participate in their own learning.”Ms. Ho Peng Ministry of Education
Remix Culture Consumer = CreatorUser = ProducerEra of the “Prosumer”music, media, even software
Generation Web• Some 93% of teens use the internet, and more of them than ever are
treating it as a venue for social interaction – a place where they can share creations, tell stories, and interact with others.
• 39% of online teens share their own artistic creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos, up from 33% in 2004.
• 33% create or work on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends, or school assignments, basically unchanged from 2004 (32%).
• 28% have created their own or blog, up from 19% in 2004.
• 27% maintain their own personal webpage, up from 22% in 2004.
• 26% remix content they find online into their own creations, up from 19% in 2004.
Source : Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2007
What’s Coming
Where is the web going?Your students already know...
Tim Berners-Lee
“The Web isn’t about what you can do with computers. It’s people and, yes, they are connected by computers. But computer science, as the study of what happens in a computer, doesn’t tell you about what happens on the Web.”
NY Times, Nov 2, 2006
The Web, Reborn
• New Ways of using the web
• Long Tail• Richer Interactive Experience• Not just a channel, but a
platform• participative • re-mixable
The DNA of new Web• Findability and the Long Tail• Rich Web Applications• Social Software• Peer Production• Collective Intelligence
Architecture of Participation
Technology Adoption
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Conversations Are Taking Place
…All Over the Web
Social Networking Impacts Around the World
• >85% of the students currently enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities have profile pages on Facebook
• Active accounts on Social Networks– 300 million on QQ (China)– >60 million on Orkut (Big in Brazil and India)– 60 million on Facebook (US)– 20 million on Cyworld (Korea)– 19 million on Friends Reunited (UK) – 14 million on Mixi (Japan)
Source: HBS Social Media Report March 2008, Plus Eight Star Ltd, Google, Friends Reunited
My Facebook “Friends”
My Linkedin Network
Child’s Play
2,533 Views“Boring”
Communities
“Technology enables many new types of communities as well as new ways to collaborate; which in turn has created new sources of information and styles of creation.”
Source: Gartner Group
Peer Production
‘Physical’ Size of English Wikipedia[ca. Aug 2007]
1,250Volumes
7 Meters
3 Meters
Wikis:Community Publishing
21st Century:
The Attention Economy?
Today’s Students = Tomorrow’s Workers
“From social networking software to agent-based contracting, the tools of the enterprise will create a world in which ad hoc relationships—and new cooperative strategies—drive business growth and global trade.”
Source: Institute for the Future
The Future of Work
Historical Information
Contextual Knowledge
Processing Data Synthesis
Structured Tasks Emergent Activities
Individual Computing
Ubiquitous Computing
Real World Interactions
Augmented Reality
Transition
Work 1.0
The basic approach
The problem
Old School
New Thinking
The New way of working
Work 2.0
How most people view Open Source
How the open source really community works
New Tools
Clay Shirkey
“Tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technically boring.”
Doug Engelbart, 1968
"The grand challenge is to boost the collective IQ of organizations and of society. "
Engelbart’s Dream: Augmentation
Knowledge Sharing
More than 600 Engineers in Singapore, Korea, Japan, Australia, India, USA and China are augmenting each other through blogs
The Engelbart Effect - Adding Organizational IQ
Workplace Tools in Evolution
Job Fairs, word of mouth
Employee surveys
Plaques
Team building offsites
Classroom training
All Hands Meetings
Traditional
Online advertising, Email referrals
Online surveys
Email announcements
D-lists, webinars
eLearning
Replayable Webcasts
Internet Web 2.0Engager
Blogging, RSS, Social networking
Attraction
Wikis, chats, forumsEmpowerment
Recommendations, kudos, ratings
Recognition
Social networking, workspaces
Community
Informal learning, tagging
Development
Interactive blogsVisibility
Learning 2.0?
Education in Transition• Continued shift in enterprise work practices = Work 2.0• Balancing traditional exercises with experiential learning• Community demand for engagement and participation -
collaboration, understanding the relationships and leveraging the interactions are key
• Rapid shift from traditional to new media as underpinning mechanisms to support the educational process
• Harnessing the power of web 2.0 resources and integrate them into the learning process
• Measuring and guiding progress constantly, rather than at the examination only
• Legal framework reform to support emergent pressures on IP, use and re-use, access and identity (the rip, mix and
New Tools
New Methods
What is needed ?
MOE’s Masterplan 3 for ICT in Education
Source MOE’s website at http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2008/08/moe-launches-thirdmasterplan.php
“In the future, there is every reason to believe that we will have learning tools that will allow us to diagnose each individual student in ways that will permit us to treat each student, individually, every hour of every day, with just those educational tools and lesson plans best suited to his or her needs and aptitudes.”
Jay Ogilvie OECD 2006
OECD International Research 2006Think - Re-Think Education
Learning 2.0 New Tools
Oracle Student Learning
supporting life long learning
Enabling the Effective SchoolsAgenda
Collaborativeintervention
Accountability
Standards &
Effectiveness
Understandingthe individual
Child
Connectedness
Oracle Student LearningOSL is a societal class driven information system that informs the process of teaching and learning. It comprises of 3 core components:
Learning Tool, used by teachers, students and parents to navigate the K12 learning experience to foster a personalised learning experience for students Student Warehouse for reporting/diagnostics providing real-time business intelligence and analytics about learning Student HUB for maintaining a consistent and high quality student master data and a single point of truth across applications in the School enterprise.
Oracle Student Learning (OSL) is now being developed by the Oracle Asia R&D Center based in Singapore.
Oracle’s Enterprise platform forms the basis of OSL:
Learning Tool – Fusion Middleware, Enterprise Content Management, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Internet Directory Student Warehouse –Oracle BI suite, Oracle Data Integration Suite Student HUB – Master Data Management (Siebel UCM), Application Integration Architecture, Identity Management
Our Solution Philosophy – Single Point of Truth
Relationships
Assessments Observations
WorkPractices
Attendance
ContentUsage
• Student Centric, Data Driven
• Empowers Teacher as Leader
• Uniquely Harnesses power of
Social Networking Tools and
Web 2.0
• Real-time intelligence and
analytics about learning
outcomes
Learning 2.0 : Educational “Mashup”
Pluggable Components OSL –THE SINGLE POINT OF TRUTH
Pluggable Components
Enables a live, real time, true source of information related to the individual learner.
+•Oracle’s L360 Teaching and Learning Tool•3rd Party Student Information Systems•Open Source Applications•Yahoo•Google•Any web service
Outcomes
Forums
SocialNetworking
T<ool ..et
c…
..etc…
Chat
Learning 2.0: Connected in Context
New Methods = 21st Century Skills
Source : http://www.21stcenturyskills.org
Oracle Education Foundation
• Independent charitable organization funded by Oracle
• Dedicated to helping K-12 students develop 21st Century skills
• Provides ThinkQuest as a free service to primary and secondary schools– 405,000 students/teachers in 60 countries
– Partners with 80+ non-profit or government organizations
21st Century Skills
New Method : Project learning
Think TogetherThink.com is now part of ThinkQuest.
• Protected, online learning platform• Enables teachers to integrate learning projects into curriculum
and students to develop 21st century skills• Includes:
– Project environment – Competition space – ThinkQuest Library– Professional development
Base Content SlideBase Content Slide
Learning ProjectsIntegrate learning projects into your classroom curriculum.
Choose a topic, assign students, invite teachers, and collaborate with members around the world.
PagesProjects come to life when students create pages with text,
pictures, multimedia, votes, brainstorms, debates, and messages.
Base Content SlideBase Content Slide
LibraryThis award-winning resource contains 7,000+ projects and
offers students the opportunity to have their work published and seen by millions.
Professional DevelopmentA comprehensive training offering for educators to support 21st
Century Learning in the classroom.
ThinkQuest Professional Development
• Getting Started with Projects– Instructor-led seminar for new users
• Getting Started with the Competition– Self-paced tutorial that shows participants how to succeed
• Project Learning Institute– Blended training format for teachers on how to integrate
technology and project learning into classroom curriculum
CompetitionA space for students to participate in technology contests. All
eligible entries are published in the ThinkQuest Library.
ThinkQuest Competition
• Website Competition (now open)– Students build educational websites on topics of their choice
• Narrative Competition (now open)– Students publish their ideas on issues of global importance
• Application Competition (coming 2009)– Students develop an online service to address a community
need
Program ExampleWebsite Competition: “Touching Hearts with Melodies”
• Team of Singapore & US students– Cross country and continent collaboration
– Team’s Community service project
– Conducted music keyboard lessons for children in Canossaville Children's Home, for an Easter performance.
– Aim to help the under-privileged children to build up their self-confidence.
• Results– 1st Place, 13 and under category
Program ExampleWebsite Competition: “Forests: Our life-line, the deforestation dilemma”
• Team of students in Singapore – Different Singapore schools’ collaboration – Anglo-Chinese
School (Independent), Hwa Chong Institution and NUS High School
– Research on forests and cause and effect of deforestation, and the solutions to this dilemma.
– Hope to raise global awareness regarding the issues facing deforestation
• Results– 2nd Place, 15 and under category
Program ExampleGalvin Sng: From Student Winner to ThinkQuest Coach
• 1997, “Mathematics with Alice” Semi Finalist
• 1998, “Volcanoes online” Interdisciplinary 1st Place, collaborated with overseas students
• 1999, “ES2000 – Endangered Species of the Next Millennium”, Social Sciences Platinum Award
• 2000, “Sighting the First Sense - Seeing is Believing”, Best of Contest, Sports and Health Platinum Award
• Coach of winning teams in 2007, 2008
• From a self-professed shy student to a mature coach
“It amazes me to know that educators today are still using the ThinkQuest entries I created in the late 1990’s. The resources I produced are still relevant today and being used to benefit students and teachers around the world.”
Gavin SngStudent, The Chinese High School (1995-1998)Student, Hwa Chong Junior College (1999-2000)
Reflections and next steps:1. Take steps forward, even if they seem like small ones.
You will go far.2. Think about technology as the enabler of 21st century skills.
Technology is the means, not the end.3. Explore new ways to learn from the experience of others and share what you know.
You will get back more than you give.
“A nation’s wealth in the 21st Century will depend on the capacity of its people to learn. Their imagination, their ability to seek out new technologies and ideas, and to apply them in everything they do will be the key source of economic growth. Their collective capacity to learn will determine the well-being of a nation. The task of education must therefore be to provide the young with the core knowledge and skills, and the habits of learning, that enable them to learn continuously throughout their lives.
...We must ensure that our young can think for themselves, so that the next generation can find their own solutions to whatever new problems they may face. We have to equip them for a future that we cannot really predict.”
Extracted from speech byMr. Goh Chok Tong
Prime Minister (1990-2004)at the 7th International Conference on Thinking
“The Future is here - it’s just not evenly distributed..”
William Gibson
Thank You
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