Slides for my keynote to NSW ICT Educators March 2017

1. Cameron Paterson
E: cpaterson@shore.nsw.edu.au
T: cpaterso
Educating For The Unknown
Image: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind

3. Mindfulness is… “the power
tool that all the other literacies
depend upon”
(Howard Rheingold, Net Smart)

4. At School (in the year 2000) by Jean Marc Cote, 1899

9. Isolation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_acvfJQO0

19. “The future of schools lies in networks rather than
hierarchies, in lateral rather than vertical organisations.
Networks cannot be managed the same way that
hierarchies are managed. Social networking is a different
way of organising.” (Professor Richard Elmore)

20. Explicitly teaching people to work in teams
“The knowledge-based, twenty-first-
century organization depends on cross-
disciplinary collaboration, flattened
hierarchies, and continuous
innovation”
Amy Edmondson

21. The Race
• 400-600 miles, non-stop Primal Quest
Adventure Race
• Multi-disciplinary, expert teams
• Unknown terrain, multiple routes
• Challenges: mental and physical exhaustion,
navigational errors, injury
• 75-95 teams each year
• 55% of teams do not finish
• Avg age=37, Avg exp=5.5 yrs
• $250,000 purse

22. Map of Race
Day 1-2
Day 4-5
2004 Race Overview

23. 50%
70% Conditional
Claims
Assertive
Claims
Team
Performance
HighLow
30%
How do claims of knowing vary across teams?

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25. “Workers learn more in the coffee room than in the classroom. They
discover how to do their jobs through informal learning: talking,
observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the
know.” (Jay Cross)
Become more intentional about informal learning

26. “The successful organization of the future will have two organizational
structures: a Hierarchy, and a more teaming, egalitarian, and adaptive Network”
(Kotter, 2014).
Design for flexibility and responsiveness

27. Foster diverse
connections
Map of
Knowledge
from Los
Alamos
National Lab

28. Devolve decision making
Jelmer Evers, Changing Education From the Ground Up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Pp_keHKdY

29. Embrace complexity

30. Craft a narrative

31. The Speech that Made Obama President:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPwDe22CoY

32. “There is clear consensus that the future now
emerging will be extremely different from anything
we have ever known in the past. It is a difference,
not of degree, but of kind.”

33. Supporting educators to collaboratively
design and implement powerful
practices to lift learning outcomes for
high potential learners.

34. “Learned helplessness in the face of this dysfunction is the
disease of a dying institution.”
(Richard Elmore)

35. Two Blind Men Crossing a Log Bridge
A Zen ink painting from Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)

36. The Martian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8