How we can engage collective capacity to best serve the educational needs and aspirations of kids today, tomorrow, and for years to come?

1. Matching schools to the
“knowmad” society

2. Educational system is
outdated
Was designed for the industrial age

3. Sir Ken Robinson Sugatra Mitra
They advocate a need for
Nikhil Goyal
change
Jef Staes

4. Characteristics of system
Age groups
Learning in prescribed places
Learning dictated by roster
Teacher-centered classroom
Isolated classrooms
Hierarchical organizations
No voice
No choice

5. Re-arranging deck chairs
on the Titanic
The system need to change
The current system is sinking

6. The meaning of
Education
Education ≠ schooling
Education = universal
development of skills
and knowledge, any
time, any place,
anywhere

7. Think differently about
human capacity
Sir Ken Robinson – from “How schools kill creativity”
We have to get over this old conception of: of
Learning is an inborn capacity

8. What skills are really
needed in the future?
”Ten years from now, relevant work skills will be shaped
by the continued rise in global connectivity, smart
technology and new media, among several other
drivers.”

9. @ The Institute for the Future in Palo Alto

10. Future of Learning
From Educational Institutions to Learning
Flows
New technologies, new ecologies,
and new practices are disrupting how
we learn, what we learn, and where
we learn.
The definitions of teacher and student are fluid.
Education is moving out of episodic experiences at
traditional institutions like classrooms and schools into
learning flows that course through our daily lives.
@ The Institute for the Future in Palo Alto

12. The “Knowmad” society
Focus on ‘how’ to learn, not ‘what’ to learn

13. Shift from Formal to Invisible
learning
Structured
Sequential
Supply-driven
Pre-set curriculum
Responsibility with teacher
Random
Free
Demand-driven
Individual curriculum
Responsibility with learner

14. Shift from Extrinsic to
Intrinsic
motivation
Amotivation
Self motivated learning
Connected to own norms
and values
Intrinsic
Relevance is recognized
Guilt, Pride & Shame
Reward & punishment
(by student)
Extrinsic
motivation
Trust
++ --
Control

15. Performance outcomes
Learning informally
primary school math
takes 20 hours
Formal education takes
±2000 hours
Learning
Time

16. What can you do?

17. Reshape thinking
Our own thinking, assumptions and beliefs are
modeled by our own schooling through
centuries

19. Create ecology of options
Not “one” best practice
Industrial policy 21st century innovation policy
Top down Bottom up
Ecology of
options
Doesn’t work

20. Best education efforts?
The best of these efforts are
those in which the client
population — the students —
play a critical role.

22. http://www.knowmadsociety.com/
http://minnevate.mnasa.org/