EnhancingEnhancingLearning & Teaching with ICTLearning & Teaching with ICT

- a glimpse of the future?

“The true aim of everyonewho aspires to be a teacher

should be, not to imparthis own opinions,

but to kindle minds.”

Frederick William Robertson (1816 – 1853)

Predictingthe

Future

"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past.

I think the past was not predictable when it started.“

Donald RumsfeldFormer U.S. Secretary of State for Defense

What will the 21st Century be like?

A view from the 1950’s

A view from the 1970’s

• MP3• DVD• 9/11• ASBO• Google• 3G phones• call centres• New Labour• Harry Potter• online banking• Rise of “Chindia”• reality television• digital photography• ebay & online shopping• awareness of climate change• Tesco and other supermarkets• expansion of the EU and the Euro• easyJet, ticketless and low cost airlines• online communities: MySpace, Second Life, YouTube, Ning!

Significant changes since 1997

Shift HappensGoogle... Karl Fisch Did You Know?

• Around 1,400,000 UK school pupils have their own web pages

• There are over 130,000,000 registered MySpace users

• The BBC estimates that a new blog is created in the UK every second

• In the UK, 70% of teenagers have a handheld games console, 90% have a home computer and a mobile phone

• 70% of teachers have NEVER played a handheld games console

• Advance of fibre technology already has capacity to send the equivalent of 1,900 CDs or 150 million phone calls per second into your home down a single strand of fibre

Avalanche of technology - communications

• 1 Gigabyte = 1,000 Megabytes• 1 Terabyte = 1,000 Gigabytes• 1 Petabyte = 1,000 Terabytes• 1 Exabyte = 1,000 Petabytes

• Current (2007) estimates of world repository of pictures, words, movies, amounts to 7 Exabytes

• At this rate of growth:• By 2020 an iPod equivalent – at the same equivalent

price – will have storage capacity of 8 Exabytes

• By 2030 e-paper (or equivalent) will be cheaper than “paper” paper

• By 2050 a home computer – at the same equivalent price – will have processing capacity of entire Human species (at current birth rates)

Avalanche of technology - data

• 1 Gigabyte = 1,000 Megabytes• 1 Terabyte = 1,000 Gigabytes• 1 Petabyte = 1,000 Terabytes• 1 Exabyte = 1,000 Petabytes

• Current (2007) estimates of world repository of pictures, words, movies, amounts to 7 Exabytes

• At this rate of growth:• By 2020 an iPod equivalent – at the same equivalent

price – will have storage capacity of 8 Exabytes

• By 2030 e-paper (or equivalent) will be cheaper than “paper” paper

• By 2050 a home computer – at the same equivalent price – will have processing capacity of entire Human species (at current birth rates)

Avalanche of technology - data

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It’s not really about the technology!

70% about effective change management

20% about the processes inside

10% about the technology

Learning Platforms

Published on Monday 17th September

80 page document...

141 references to Learning Platforms

http://publications.becta.org.uk

Web 2.0and beyond?

wikis, blogs, podcasts and mash-ups!

…the read/write web

Social Networking

“…every sensory-deprived hour spent social networking online is an hour less to savour the thrilling marvel of the living, breathing, pulsating real world.”

Patrick BarkhamWriting in “The Guardian” 16.05.07

SerendipitousLearning

Definition• Have you ever found yourself aimlessly

browsing the web only to stumble across something of value that you weren't actually looking for? This is serendipitous learning:

• It acknowledges the fact that the search for knowledge may occur by chance, or as a by-product of the main task. For example, a search for information may launch the user on a tangent that ends up being more productive than the original search query.

Jim Gritton, GB Learning Consultancy (Futurelab)

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know.

We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.“

Donald RumsfeldFormer U.S. Secretary of State for Defense

Mobile Technologies

SurfaceTechnology

Bill Gates

Steve Jobs

Jeff Han?Google... Jeff Han TED

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday,

we rob our students of tomorrow”

John Dewey (1859 – 1952)