Slides from a talk given on 30.4.2011 in the future of education conference of the TED Ankara College Foundation, Ankara, Turkey.

1. 21st Century Education. Is how
more important than what?
Teemu Leinonen
Department of Media, Media Lab
Aalto University School of Art and Design

2. Teemu Leinonen
New Media Design and
Learning
Designer:
web/ mobile and learning
Education / learning
science > New Media >
Design > Design
Methodology

3. Designer (artist)
. . . focuses on experiences,
. . . the future experiences,
. . . to design them.

4. What do you know about
Finland?

5. Finland =
Nokia
350 million mobile phones / year,
11-12 per second
Linux
Linus Torvalds 1991: 80% of Internet servers,
90% super computers

6. Finland =
Habbo Hotel
203 million avatars
Angry Birds
140 million downloads

7. Finland =
Education
According to OECD (PISA) Finland is the leading
country in the quality of education.

8. Finland: Facts
• Population 5.2 million
• Over 6 million mobile phone subscriptions
• Over 2 million broadband Internet connections
• Internet access is a legal right (1 Mbit/s)
• Nordic country (Finland, Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, Iceland)
• Languages: Finnish and Swedish

9. Agenda
1. Education and Learning
2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture
3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

10. Agenda
1. Education and Learning
2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture
3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

11. Aalto University
Raphael's "School of Athens” (1505)

12. Aalto University
Tuusulan kansanopiston

15. Why education?
Why national educational systems?

16. Renew Preserve
Society and Culture Society and Culture

17. Renew Preserve
Society and Culture Society and Culture
Why education?
Why national educational systems?
Societies and Cultures are different
Renewing and preserving them requires
different actions.

18. Learning?

19. Progressive inquiry learning
Constructing
Setting up Working
Research Theories
Questions
Critical
Evaluation
Creating
the Context
Distributed Expertise
Searching
Deepening
Knowledge
Developing New
Working Theories
Generating Subordinate
Questions
(Hakkarainen 1999)

20. Agenda
1. Education and Learning
2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture
3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

21. Agenda
1. Education and Learning
2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture
3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

22. What is a knowledge society?

23. Knowledge society is a society
where creation, distribution,
use and modification of
information plays an important
role in culture and economy.

24. The change in the media
landscape.

29. How many of you have used
Wikipedia this week?

30. How many of you have edit
Wikipedia articles?

31. Agenda
1. Education and Learning
2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture
3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

32. Agenda
1. Education and Learning
2. Knowledge Society and Digital Culture
3. Open Education / Open Learning ?

34. Ilya Yfimovich Repin (1844-1930): Portrait of Leo Tolstoy in His Study, Moscow, The State Literature Museum

35. “The current search for new educational
funnels must be reversed into the search
for their institutional inverse:
educational webs which heighten the
opportunity for each one to transform
each moment of his living into one of
learning, sharing and caring.”

36. “A good education system should have
three purposes: it should provide all who
want to learn with access to available
resources at any time in their lives;
empower all who want to share what
they know to find those who want to
learn it from them; and finally furnish
all who want to present an issue to the
public with the opportunity to make their
challenge known.”

37. “A good education system should have
three purposes: it should provide all who
want to learn with access to available
resources at any time in their lives;
empower all who want to share what
they know to find those who want to
learn it from them; and finally furnish
all who want to present an issue to the
public with the opportunity to make their
challenge known.”
Ivan Illich (1971); Deschooling Society

38. Online learning “hype”
OUT ? IN ?
• Tests and exams • Reputation
• Degrees • Portfolios
• Institutions • Internet
• Closed groups • Networks
• Closed learning • Open network
environments environments
• Learning • Open educational
objects resources
• Text • Rich media

39. Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

46. How to become an expert?
• By having access to the tacit knowledge of experts.
(Hakkarainen 2002)
• Expertises develops rather by participating in an expert
community rather than by consuming information. (Brown,
Duguid, & Collins,1987, Hakkarainen 2002);
• We need people who are committed to grow experts
• We need sustainability and system.

47. Where do we have a chance to
participate in an expert
community?

48. In good schools
With good teachers and peer-students
In good workplaces
With good bosses and colleagues

49. Progressive inquiry learning
Constructing
Setting up Working
Research Theories
Questions
Critical
Evaluation
Creating
the Context
Distributed Expertise
Searching
Deepening
Knowledge
Developing New
Working Theories
Generating Subordinate
Questions
(Hakkarainen 1999)

50. The future classroom?

51. Aalto University
h"p://youtu.be/nr554ScxfvE

52. Aalto University
h"p://vimeo.com/10839692

53. Mobile phones / smart phones

54. Aalto University
Large mulG‐user touch screens.
h"p://youtu.be/ihaM3DvyUHE

55. Personal mulG‐user touch screens.

56. Aalto University
Work seamlessly together.

57. Aalto University
ApplicaGons for collaboraGve
progressive inquiry learning.

58. Thank you.
Teemu Leinonen
Department of Media, Media Lab
Aalto University School of Art and Design
teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi