3. http://dakinane.com Eductation as an industrial process… A sieve… to create a traditional hierarchy Does that model best reflect the needs of New Zealand today?
4. http://dakinane.com The Ministry have been working on this e-learning thing for a while Ministry of Education, 2006 “ Teachers can transform their teaching role through the deliberate and considered use of ICT.” p. 10 “ E-learning can contribute directly to the development of all these competencies and increasingly these competencies are applied in ICT rich contexts for all students.” p. 8 “ It will require a culture of continuous enquiry, innovation and improvement, risk taking and entrepreneurship.” Steve Maharey, Minister of Education. p. 3
5. http://dakinane.com The rationale: “ Students believe that using technology improves their writing skills” Issue 21, Term 1, February 2010 http://bit.ly/alCv0g
6. http:// dakinane.com On dis-engagement: Teachers recognised that “…an imperative to make the subject relevant was in opposition to more traditional approaches that de-contextualises the content.” Darby, L., (2009) Traditional Curriculum Student Interest Behaviour issues Student engagement Drop out rate
7. http:// dakinane.com Learning silos isolate relevance and minimise connections between disciplines and knowledge Literacy Numeracy Science Social Studies
8. http:// dakinane.com http://k-web.org/public_html/home.htm Interconnectedness = relevance “ Knowledge is immensely interconnected, this is the way of the Internet and the way things are going in general.” Burke, J., Interview: Dan Carlin’s Hard Core History March 1 2008
9. “ The people to be worried about are those in a digital age but who are not learning these sophisticated information gathering and information-processing skills, or creating things of their own based on what they learn and sharing it with others.” Palfrey, J. and Gasser, U., p. 241 (New York, 2008) who are growing up Digital divides http://dakinane.com
Introduce yourself 10 years Team Solutions Independent Consultant Auckland
The problem is: Architectural Curriculum based Generational Give example of c19th teacher and medical doctor in today’s society
The reason that our C19th teacher would not feel out of place Teaching was and is a conveyor belt, one that produced a system where you fell off at key point All worked OK if there was a traditional job structure to be sorted in to ACER lamp example
E-learning underpins the current curriculum Key Competencies Look at date
Perception is key here. Part of our skill as a teacher is to disguise the real work that the students are doing by packaging up the work required into engaging units of work Engaging for whom though ‘Students should be working harder not teachers’ Learning At Schools conference 2010 If their perception is positive we should use that to build upon
What we see here is that a traditional curriculum content and delivery model is at odds with relevance and student engagement Teachers are left to manage behavioural issues and evident student boredom It is time to re-engage our students and make learning relevant, authentic and purposeful to and for them
Education historically parceled up information When the only information available was the school library – this was OK The Internet has subverted traditional teaching paradigms Students have a wealth of information at their fingertips They are disconnecting from their ‘formal learning’ because of this and as a system we continue to split halve and specialise Science becomes physics, Chemistry, Biology etc They do not see the interconnectedness of everythng, if they did we would be able to foster the awe and motivation
Making connections explicit is one way to ensure students see the relevance in what they do Using the Internet, their primary information/communication/recreation vehicle is paramount to maintaining their motivation and making their learning relevant to them The necessity to work with mountains of information is now a primary skill for students to learn To synthesise their understanding and then publish their work for peers to read family to review etc
Content is king and creating an publishing content it the lord of them all Students need the skills to manipulate the information New Information is the new export economy for NZ our brains and not our bodies need to be exported Students need to capitalise on this and we need our students to be content creators
