21st Century Education. Is how more important than what?

Teemu Leinonen Department of Media, Media Lab

Aalto University School of Art and Design

Teemu Leinonen

New Media Design and Learning

Designer: web/ mobile and learning

Education / learning science > New Media > Design > Design Methodology

Designer (artist) . . . focuses on experiences, . . . the future experiences,

. . . to design them.

What do you know about Finland?

Finland =

Nokia 350 million mobile phones / year,

11-12 per second

Linux Linus Torvalds 1991: 80% of Internet servers,

90% super computers

Finland =

Habbo Hotel 203 million avatars

Angry Birds 140 million downloads

Finland =

Education According to OECD (PISA) Finland is the leading

country in the quality of education.

Finland: Facts •  Population 5.2 million

•  Over 6 million mobile phone subscriptions •  Over 2 million broadband Internet connections •  Internet access is a legal right (1 Mbit/s)

•  Nordic country (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland)

•  Languages: Finnish and Swedish

1. Education and Learning

2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture

3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

Agenda

1. Education and Learning

2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture

3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

Agenda

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Raphael's "School of Athens” (1505)

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Tuusulan kansanopiston

Why education?

Why national educational systems?

Preserve Society and Culture

Renew Society and Culture

Preserve Society and Culture

Renew Society and Culture

Why education?

Why national educational systems?

Societies and Cultures are different Renewing and preserving them requires

different actions.

Learning?

Setting up Research Questions

Creating the Context

Constructing Working Theories

Critical Evaluation

Searching Deepening Knowledge

Generating Subordinate Questions

Developing New Working Theories

Distributed Expertise

(Hakkarainen 1999)

Progressive inquiry learning

1. Education and Learning

2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture

3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

Agenda

1. Education and Learning

2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture

3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

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What is a knowledge society?

Knowledge society is a society where creation, distribution,

use and modification of information plays an important

role in culture and economy.

The change in the media landscape.

How many of you have used Wikipedia this week?

How many of you have edit Wikipedia articles?

1. Education and Learning

2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture

3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

Agenda

1. Education and Learning

2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture

3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

Agenda

Ilya Yfimovich Repin (1844-1930): Portrait of Leo Tolstoy in His Study, Moscow, The State Literature Museum

“The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search

for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of

learning, sharing and caring.”

“A good education system should have three purposes: it should provide all who

want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives;

empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to

learn it from them; and finally furnish all who want to present an issue to the

public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.”

“A good education system should have three purposes: it should provide all who

want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives;

empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to

learn it from them; and finally furnish all who want to present an issue to the

public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.”

Ivan Illich (1971); Deschooling Society

OUT ? •  Tests and exams •  Degrees •  Institutions •  Closed groups •  Closed learning

environments •  Learning

objects •  Text

IN ? •  Reputation •  Portfolios •  Internet •  Networks •  Open network

environments •  Open educational

resources •  Rich media

Online learning “hype”

Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

How to become an expert?

•  By having access to the tacit knowledge of experts. (Hakkarainen 2002)

•  Expertises develops rather by participating in an expert community rather than by consuming information. (Brown, Duguid, & Collins,1987, Hakkarainen 2002);

•  We need people who are committed to grow experts •  We need sustainability and system.

Where do we have a chance to participate in an expert

community?

In good schools With good teachers and peer-students

In good workplaces With good bosses and colleagues

Setting up Research Questions

Creating the Context

Constructing Working Theories

Critical Evaluation

Searching Deepening Knowledge

Generating Subordinate Questions

Developing New Working Theories

Distributed Expertise

(Hakkarainen 1999)

Progressive inquiry learning

The future classroom?

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Mobile phones / smart phones 

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Large mulG‐user touch screens. h"p://youtu.be/ihaM3DvyUHE 

Personal mulG‐user touch screens. 

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Work seamlessly together. 

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ApplicaGons for  collaboraGve  progressive inquiry learning. 

Thank you.

Teemu Leinonen Department of Media, Media Lab

Aalto University School of Art and Design teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi