Reimagining Education for Better Futures: An Intrepid Journey Through Time, Place and Space
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Invited keynote presentation at BB-ELT, Best of Britain and ELT in Colombia. Bogota, Colombia, 2nd August, 2018.
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- 1. Professor Mark Brown Director, National Institute for Digital Learning Dublin City University Bogota, Colombia 2nd August 2018 Reimagining Education for Better Futures: An Intrepid Journey Through Time, Place and Space
- 2. @mbrownz
- 5. 1. Digital disruptions 2. Previous predictions 3. Towards better futures Outline….
- 10. In 1980… 89% market share
- 20. “UK MOOC snatches world record for sign-ups. UK quality beating US $$?”
- 25. Different interest groups and stakeholders are borrowing the same ‘languages of persuasion’ to legitimize very different agenda
- 27. “It is theory that decides what we can observe”
- 28. Knowledge Economy • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • TWO MAJOR WORLDVIEWS COMPETING DIGITAL FUTURES
- 29. “And we’ve got to bring on the competition — open the schoolhouse doors and let parents choose the best school for their children. Education reformers call this school choice, charter schools, vouchers, even opportunity scholarships. I call it competition — the American way.” Donald Trump, in his book “The America We Deserve”
- 30. Knowledge Economy • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • TWO MAJOR WORLDVIEWS Knowledge Society COMPETING DIGITAL FUTURES
- 31. “Education has a crucial role to play in laying the foundations of a society that is more inclusive, participatory and equal...” The President said “…the role of the university in enabling citizens to develop the tools to address the great challenges of our time – global poverty, climate change and sustainability – was vital.
- 37. “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; cited in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).
- 38. (Uzanne, 1894; cited in McFarlane, 1997, p.173). “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”
- 39. “I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks,” (Thomas Edison, 1922)
- 40. “We will undoubtedly have lectures of every conceivable kind presented to us right in our homes, when practical television arrives, possibly a year or two off.” Short Wave Craft, 1935
- 42. Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers’ College Press. Subsided Enthusiasm Growing Support Bold Predictions Technology Expectation Cycle (1986)
- 43. Teachers’ mindsets play a key role in shaping innovative practices
- 44. Learning by sharing (Connectivist) “Learning by listening” (Instructionist) Learning by doing (Constructivist) Learning by making (Constructionist) Pedagogical Compass
- 45. Social Determinism Technocratic Nightmare Technocratic Dream Technological Determinism Techno-centric Perspective Human-centric Perspective Demon Perspective Libertarian Perspective Critics
- 46. “Technology-enhanced learning involves an ongoing cycle of hype, hope and disappointment” (Gouseti, 2010).
- 48. “Resilience requires adaptation and evolution to new environmental conditions, but retains core identity” (Weller & Anderson, 2013, p.55).
- 49. Out of School in Class Out of School out of Class In School in Class Acquisition Participation In School out of Class Physical VirtualConvergence
- 51. Trowler, P., Ashwin, P. and Saunders, M. (2014). The Role of HEFCE in Teaching and Learning Enhancement: A Review of Evaluative Evidence. The Higher Education Academy, p.16. Bolting or Embedding?
- 54. 3. Towards better futures
- 56. What type of education futures do we want new digital technology to serve?
- 57. Convergence needs to challenge our ideas of what constitutes the good society for better futures—for all
- 60. 2017 Carretero, S., Vuorikari, R., & Punie, Y. (2017). Available from http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repo sitory/bitstream/JRC106281/web- digcomp2.1pdf_(online).pdf
- 63. ‘You can’t just take something off the shelf and expect it to work just because it looks good’ (Belshaw, 2017)
- 64. Final remarks…
- 65. Final remarks…
- 66. Go raibh maith agaibh! Thank you
Notas do Editor
- I’m now Ireland’s first Professor of Digital Learning and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning based at Dublin City University. DCU is a young university with an innovative culture and mission of transforming lives and societies.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- Borrowing the words of President Michael Higgins, from this perspective higher education has a role in promoting more inclusive, participatory, equitable and sustainable futures for all.
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