Seize the Moment: Make the Future Extraordinary

Seize the Moment:
Make the Future Extraordinary
Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin, Ireland
27th Feb, 2016
@mbrownz@cesitweets

National Institute for Digital Learning

Lego® Education Innovation Studio

http://www.mindrising.ie/#mindrising-home

To come…
1. Broken Promises
2. Politics of Change
3. Being a Future Maker
Seize the Moment:
Make the Future Extraordinary

Key message…
Not much meaning or magic!

“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).
1. Broken promises…

“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)

Project Plato – 1960s

Growing
Support
Subsided Enthusiasm
Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom
use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers’ College Press.
Technology
Expectation Cycle
(1986)
High Expectations

Gartner Hype Cycle
“Technology-enhanced learning involves an
ongoing cycle of hype, hope and
disappointment” (Gouseti, 2010).

“Not everything that can be counted
counts, not everything that counts can
be counted.”
Albert Einstein

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

“An educational change is neither natural nor
normal, constant nor common as it involves a
deeper struggle over who will win control of
the curriculum” (Evans, 1996, p.25).
2. Politics of Change…

Techno-centric
Perspective
Human-centric
Perspective
Demon
Perspectiv
e
Libertarian
Perspective
Technocratic Dream
Technological Determinism
Social Determinism
Technocratic Nightmare

Techno-centric
Perspective
Human-centric
Perspective
Demon
Perspectiv
e
Libertarian
Perspective
Social Determinism
Technocratic Nightmare
Technocratic Dream
Technological Determinism
Critics

http://audreywatters.com

- Neil Selwyn

“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

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

Competing Change Forces
Knowledge Economy
Learning Society
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
• Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •

“Frankly, all the computers and software and
Internet connections in the world won’t do
much good if young people don’t understand
that access to new technology means…
access to the new economy”
(President Bill Clinton; cited in Cuban, 2001, p.18).

Television Advertisement by Telecom Corporation, NZ

“The Digital Learning Festival will bring
together these digital learning trailblazers
from Ireland and abroad to… chart the way
forward for the future of technology in
education thus ensuring a solid base from
which to launch the next phase of Ireland’s
economic growth”
(EXCITED Digital Learning Festival, 2014).

ReconceptualisingDeschooling
ReschoolingReproducing
Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the
same ‘language of persuasion’ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda
• Open learning
• Online learning
• Anytime, anywhere learning
E-learning •
Digital learning •
Technology-enhanced learning •
Knowledge Economy
Learning Society
Competing Change Forces

The current emphasis on education in change
needs to shift to the language
of education for change.

“The old technology of tell
and test or experience and
evoke does not work, and
it is becoming clearer to
more people that it can
never work.”
Why we should be optimistic…
Michael Fullan

What type of
education system do
we want the use of new
digital technology
to serve?
Framing question…
3. Being a future maker…

It depends on…
- Learning from history
- Shaping the future drivers
- Having the courage to be future
makers
Conclusion

Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
www.dcu.ie/nidlmark.brown@dcu.ie
@mbrownz www.slideshare.net/mbrownz

Seize the Moment: Make the Future Extraordinary

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