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The “before and after”-moment for education
Roger Larsen
Senior Vice President
Market Development and Strategy
Pearson Education Platforms
Founder of Fronter (fronter.com)
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Agenda
TEACHING AND LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
BEFORE AND AFTER
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TEACHING VS LEARNING
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Our educational system...
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...is designed to mass produce education
and to serve traditional industry?
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Technology changes behavior
In an evening I... My children are...
• visited one friend • cathing up with 15 friends
on Facebook
• talked with another • have 4 live chats up
friend similtaneously
• watched a movie • watched 20 clips on
YouTube
• listened to a record • downloaded 19 songs
from iTunes
• read a magazine and • used Google, scanned 6
looked a word up in the articles covering 3
encyclopedia subjects.
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Student, when learning...
In school… Privately…
• Lesson based • Problem based
• Teacher led • Learner led
• Courses / class • Relationship / peers
• Content selected by • Content selected by
other learner
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Teaching vs Learning
• Teaching is political driven and its process is
determined by structure of the educational system,
curriculum, content and culture.
• Learning is needs based and its process is driven by
problem solving, opportunity realization and
curiosity.
• Technology has changed the way we acquire
knowledge, thus learn, but not the way we teach!
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“We need to prepare children for
jobs which doesn’t exist,
to solve problems we don’t have
facing challenges we can’t imagine.”
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TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
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ICT investments in education
Learning Platform
Whiteboard
Digital Content
Internet
PC
MIS
2000ish 2010ish
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Digital
Content and
Assessment
Learning
Platform
Student Content
Information Management
System System
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Learning Platform
Physical and Virtual Learning Platform
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Oslo
• Capital of Norway
– 120 schools
– 170.000 learners
• School of the future
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London MLE
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London: 2583 schools in 33 school districts
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Managed Learning Environment
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Self guided Personalising
Pupil mobility
learning Learning
Parental Assessment for Anywhere
Involvement Learning Anytime learning
Key stage Independent
transition learning
Every Child
Student voice
Matters
Qualifications
Special Education
Needs
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Learning points
• Basic infrastructure must be in place
• Teachers need training
• Change management among leaders
• Keep it simple
• Digital Learning Platform will “glue”
it all together.
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BEFORE AND AFTER
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Before and after moments
For life For Education
• Fire
• Wheel
• Gutenberg?
• Steam • Chalk board?
• Automobile
• Electricity • Learning Platform?
• Oil
• Jet engine
• Microprocessor
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Platform for ”e”...
• eWorking
• eMusic
• eBooks
• eLearning?
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Digital Platform for Learning
• The learning platform will become the most important
element of the elearning infrastrucutre at the school.
• The learning platform will act as a starting place for all
students and teachers and glue together all other
components.
• The learning platform will lay out the possibilities for
individual learning paths and self phased learning, and
will keep a digital eportfolio for all students.
• Decision about the learning platform must not be left to
each individual school, but must be led by the city.
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Enabling Innovation
for Educators
No teacher left behind!
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