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1. Education is at a crossroads … Web
2.0
ubiquitous connectivity … new
literacies … more data … Web 3.0 ...
more management ...
more digital ... more reflection?
Are you ready for the future?

2. Unprecedented age in education?
Age of distraction, Age of personalisation
Age of overwhelming data, Age of need for discerning choices

3. What kind of society are we living in?
Architecture of
search engines
offer a plethora
of knowledge
within tenths of
milliseconds
In 2012 more than $1 billion in venture
capital was poured into education

4. Collecting and Sorting Information on Massive Scale
Cell phones, GPS tracking, web clicks, Twitter - all collect data passively
Data speaks
How does that
make you feel?

5. Using algorithms to predict trends
How might algorithms predict trends in education?

6. Professional Social Clubs?
Building connections
through data

7. Your Data is the commerce of the future
30 percent of sales due to recommendation engine

8. Our mindset is shifting
Data is so big, it is messy
Data correlations
Do you feel that process whilst
overwhelming is also liberating?
How do you feel without access to your phone, wifi or ability to digitally
connect?

9. The age of hyper-connectivity - altering the way we think?

10. Think
Agile
Creative
Dynamic
Collaborative
There has been a
powershift
The illiterate of the 21 Century are not those who cannot read and
write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.
Alvin Toffler in Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

11. Teaching as managing data
Actively teaching how to research so students don’t
get distracted or lost ....

12. Are your students
discerning? Are
your colleagues
discerning in their
searches?

13. Are teachers and
students talking
about ‘sorting’
techniques on the
Internet?

14. Are you discussing the art of digital curation?
Sorting

15. My Itunes Playlist

16. Following the Process of Data Production
Who follows what other people listen to?
DJ / radio presenter of music to the world?
Democratisation of information, intellectual
and creative property

17. Who has studied what?
Whose study playlist are you following?
Determined by a daily algorithm
What list have they already been working through?
From the data, how many people are stuck on the same question as you?
What information are they sharing?
How is the teacher managing the playlists, heat maps and work pace?
What does this say for the way that we will assess in the future?

18. What is ‘Adaptive Learning’?
Instant feedback
Strengths and weaknesses are identified
Students take active role in their learning
Teachers are provided with ‘heatmap’
analytics to optimize students results With real-time
reports
in the big-data era,
teaching and
learning will
change

19. What is the future for education and
dispersal of knowledge?
Textbooks ‘replaced’ by a ream of Internet data and
content delivered by presenters on Youtube

20. Connectivity has altered power dynamics
Power in sharing, connecting, listening and grouping together to solve
problems - but isn't that the best way? society that is flourishing?
Hopefully the data will contribute to the development of this spirit.

21. Reaching Out : Lending Through Kiva and
monitoring data

22. Big data is altering the framework of our society
A democratisation of knowledge?
Students as bankers, thinking about microfinance, geography and loan ratios

23. Adapting to the power of the web
yet spaces still about people, relationships and trust
Sadako with her class in 1946, Tokyo Japan
Jill with her class in 2013, Gold Coast Australia

24. The Future of Learning ?

25. Understanding will be co-created
Google Shared
Documents
Allowing students to
write collaboratively
How we think about the utilisation of space and our
identity in that space, is changing.
Individual, physical, virtual, creative, collaborative,
conversational, group

26. LMS enabled Mini-MOOC
Foucault asserts knowledge is for
cutting and rather than pour the
students full of knowledge we asked
them to deconstruct meaning about
‘flow’ as a large group. We got instant
data.
Real power can’t be given it must only
be taken
Students need to feel invested in the
process
129 Year 8 Students
were asked to respond
online within 30
minutes to how they
felt when they were in
a state of flow?

27. Authoring Tools that Empower Creativity and
Connection ... that also produce data
What are collaborative
learning tools are you using?

28. Creating Meaning, Creating sets of Data
Electronic
Portfolios

29. Reflection, Connection, Creation - are we training
ourselves to look for patterns?

30. peer to peer
teaching

32. Big Data providing greater opportunities?
• Adaptive learning - predicting individual needs
• Pedagogy - participatory, collaborative, facilitating connected spaces
• Critical conversations around process to monitor/analyze

33. Contact details
Jill Margerison@DrJMargerison
jill.margerison@tss.qld.edu.au
Big data - much ado about nothing? - probably not!