The Future Of Teaching

Tony Ryanw. tonyryan.com.au

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What’s coming up in education?

What to do about it!

It’s not necessarily about the technology. It’s about the humanity and the learning!

Some core points about the future of teaching:

If you can be replaced by a robot, then you need to be!

Prediction is fraught with dilemma. Instead, we must develop preferable scenarios; and

then place them into sustained action.

What could occur up ahead?

Techno-dystopia?

Techno-utopia?

But it always needs to be about people with people

Not necessarily either

Most issues are sensationalised

The better things get, the worse people think they are The future will be

full of amazing new advances

Some recent perspectives on the future

Learning 1.0. Didactic instruction; front and centre;

sage on the stage

Learning 2.0. Two-way interactive; co-creative; tech clearly advances the learning

Learning 3.0. One-on-one; ubiquitious immersive student-

centred authentic inquiry

Learning 4.0. Transformational; global brain/mind interfaces;

telepathic learning experiences

1820s - 1990s? 1980’s - 2020?

2000 - 2030? 2015 - 2040s?

Future-proofing in your personal life??

Physical fitnessFinancial back-up

Great relationshipsLifelong learning

Future-proofing in education??

Respect your own welfareCurate knowledge

Focus on the learningThink differently

Respect your own welfare

Apply the Wardrobe Principle - if you take on something new, then

get rid of something else

Use 2013 thinking to resolve 2013 issues eg crowdsource for resources

Find the fabled 50:50 balance between Self and Others

Focus on solutions

PROBLEMS SOLUTIONS

I can’t keep up with new technologies Find a coach; set up your peer network

We don’t get enough professional development

Tap into your staff’s expertise

We don’t have enough tech resourcesFocus on the learning first; and then

use the tech you have

The students know more than me

Rethink the way you can utilise their skills in your lessons

This tech stuff isn’t for me Wake Up

Focus On Solutions

“..the 21st century is about

embracing change, not fighting it.”

Principles of the new culture:

1. The old ways of learning are unable to keep up with our rapidly changing

world.

2. New media forms are making peer-to-peer learning easier and more

natural.

A strong hint: Your best resource in your school is each other.

The great schools focus equally on Pedagogy and Andragogy (adult learning).

The core focus: To reframe the Mental Models we hold as teachers. It’s not just a ‘classroom’ any more; it’s

everywhere anytime.

A 10 year-old?A 70 year-old?Whoever knows their stuff...And then.... do it regularly! Make it a part of your life (without overdoing it)

Questions for coaching:

1. What are you doing right now?

2. What else could you do?

3. What will you do?

4. How and when will you do it?

5. How will you keep it going? Adapted from “The Leadership Coaching Guide”

Get a tech coach

Curate knowledge

Respect your own welfare

Curating your students’ learning

Curating your own learning

Curation is done with two groups in your professional work as teachers:

Curation: Clarifying the core essence of what needs to be learned

Online eg social media; online readers;

worthwhile mobile apps

Real life eg regular get-togethers with former peers; coaching with another staff

member

How do you ‘curate’ what you need to know when using your Learning Network?

Use an online reader to curate what you want to find out

feedly bloglovin

digg pinterest

Other options

Curate knowledge

Focus on their

learning

Respect your own welfare

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1993 Assignments - Use a large piece of shiny cardboard; cut out some magazine photos; copy text

from an encyclopedia (and yet, little idea of context)

2013 Assessment Tasks- Construct a wiki; steal images from google; plagiarise from a

Cheat Site (and yet, little idea of context)

Does technology advance the intellectual rigour!! If not, then

maybe it’s not worth it.

Here’s an example:Wordle - a good visual organiser... but does it encourage thinking?

Drop your written article into wordle; and you can determine what key words you use in your writing. Now you’re using wordle to generate some thinking.

We’re moving from knowledge consumption to knowledge co-creation eg setting an assessment task that involves the

creation of worthwhile apps

Using the best of both worlds....!

6 Blended Learning models

Rethinking what it means to have a ‘classroom’

Will degrees maintain their credibility in

the years ahead?

The use of wearable technology in learning. The concept of a ‘global teacher’ is getting closer

Brain-Computer Interfaces in everyday

teaching?

Facilitating learning just by thinking?

User interaction data

Inferred student data

Curate knowledge

Focus on their learning

Think differently

Respect your own welfare

The square is very 20th Century!

In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950, every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure.

The world will be different up ahead. Think differently.

Could schools think like this?

Rename your

classrooms

Plan for The Future

“For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential.” (Clay Shirky)

Tap into your school’s

‘cognitive surplus’

On a rating of 1 to 10, how inspiring do you think education will be in the next

10 years?

On a rating of 1 to 10, how inspiring do you think your own life will be in the

next 10 years?

The Future Of Teaching

Tony Ryan

How can we ‘predict’ the future of teaching?

By creating it!