The Return of King Kong: A Journey to 'Scull Island' and Beyond

Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Centre for Teaching and Learning
The Return of King Kong:
A Journey to „Scull Island‟ and Beyond

The Return of King Kong:
Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Centre for Teaching and Learning
A Journey to „Scull Island‟ and Beyond

• When was the first King Kong movie
screened?
Question…

1933 - King Kong
1933 - Son of Kong
1962 - King Kong vs Godzilla
1967 - King Kong Escapes
1976 - King Kong
1986 - King Kong Lives
2005 - King Kong
Flash back…

Outline…
1. New script, same story
2. Tales from an island of innovation
3. The untold story of the digital adventure

Key message…
“Who controls the past
commands the future.
Who commands the future
conquers the past.”
(George Orwell)
.

The light comes through the cracks…
1. New script, same story…

The light comes through the cracks…
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...”
(William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act 4, Scene 3)

“With the coming of the New Media, the need for print on
paper will rapidly diminish. The day will soon arrive when the
world‟s literature will be available from The Automatic
Library at the mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1994).

“With the coming of the New Media, the need for print on
paper will rapidly diminish. The day will soon arrive when the
world‟s literature will be available from The Automatic
Library at the mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1894).

“Books will soon be obsolete in public schools. Scholars
will be instructed through the eye. It is possible to teach
every branch of human knowledge with the motion
picture”.
(Thomas Edison, 1913)

1935

High expectations
Growing
support
Subsided enthusiasm
Technology
Expectation Cycle
Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom
use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers‟ College Press.

“Technology-enhanced learning involves an ongoing cycle of hype,
hopeand disappointment” (Gouseti, 2010).
“Given all that we know about the social
complexities of technology use in education, a
pessimistic stance is the most sensible, and
possibly the most productive, perspective to
take”
(Selwyn, 2011, p.714).

“We tend to overestimatethe effect of a technology in
the short run and underestimate the effect in the
long run.”
Amara‟s Law

And the„pump, pump,dump‟
model of digital learning still
dominatesteaching practice.
Most educational technology initiatives reinforcetraditional
outcomes…
That said, the inconvenient truth is…

2. Island of innovation…
Please stand up

Palmerston NorthAuckland Wellington
Distance
International

Hon Steve Maharey
President / Vice-Chancellor

LMS OLP
$4.5m for implementation | $800K for Moodle 2.X upgrade
(2009) (2012)

1. To respond to the challenge of the so-called „Google
Generation‟.
2. To enhance the quality of teaching and thereby maintain
Massey‟s pre-eminent status as a leading flexible learning
provider.
3. To introduce a new Massey model of teaching and learning
thatfostersthe type of digital living relevant to the
requirements of the Knowledge Society.

Over 4000 online environments

http://peerreview.massey.ac.nz

Moodling and beyond…
• PD for Treasury
• Ministry of Education
• World Bank

• PD for
Governance arm
of Treasury
• Responsible for
$250 billon of
State owned
assets
• Moodle and
Adobe Connect

• PGDip in Specialist
Teaching – 400
students
• Moodle Networking
with University of
Canterbury
• Inter-professional
learning
communities

Innovating with intent…
• New icons
• Revised logo
• Updated theme
• 380+ changes to vanilla
Moodle
• Continually responding
to student demand and
feedback…

Business Creative Arts Health Humanities Sciences Total University
Average
requests
11% 1% 17% 21% 12% 14%
Papers (units)
with no requests
31% 91% 33% 30% 44% 44%
Average
number pages
200 115 258 247 233 232
Requests for printed study resources…
(Semester 1, 2013)

Key lessons…
• Leadership
• Strategic alignment
• Policy development
• Investment in people
• Having the right infrastructure
• Commitment to quality enhancement
• Shaping the evolving digital learning ecology

3. The untold story…
• Whose telling the story?
• What is the story they are
telling?
• What story isn‟t being told?
• What‟s missing from the
story?

“It is the theory that decides what we
can observe…”
Albert Einstein

Reconceptualist Knowledge Society Deschooling
Reschooling Reproduction
• Being glocal
• Digital citizenship
• Socially just society
• Education for change
• PLEs
• Social Media
• Un-curriculum
• Life-long learning
• MOOCs
• New pedagogies
• Learning for the real world
• Higher education in change
• Mass education
• Global providers
• Education as a commodity
• Increased market competition
Knowledge Economy
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same „language of persuasion‟ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
• Online learning
• Blended learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
E-learning •
Open Learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Major competing lenses…

Learning to change
and transform
Learning to
live together
Learning to do
Learning to
know
Learning
to be
Digital
Literacy
Digital
Identity
Digital Citizenship

A conclusion is the place
where you got tired of thinking
Conclusion

FOMO
What type of education system do we want „Moodle‟ to serve?
Conclusion

“Oh no, it
wasn‟t the
airplanes.
It was Beauty killed
the Beast.”
.
Conclusion

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and
fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser
people so full of doubts”
Bertrand Russell
Final remark…

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon
Questions…

• Email
m.e.brown@massey.ac.nz
• Twitter
@mbrownz
• DELFA
http://delfa.massey.ac.nz
• Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz
Contact details…

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