1. Future
Focused
Learning
Ellesmere community presentation, 27 November

2. HOPES FOR OUR KIDS
What dreams, hopes and aspirations do we have for our kids?

3. OUR CHANGING WORLD
• Our world is changing and changing rapidly.
• What must we do to prepare students for living and
working in the 21st century?
• How must our schools and teachers change to meet
these opportunities and challenges?

4. EDUCATION IS THE POWERHOUSE
• Education is the powerhouse of modern societies
• We need highly-skilled people
• With increasingly sophisticated skills and digital
competencies

5. THE DIGITAL CHALLENGE
• Proud history of education in NZ
• Quality teaching and innovation
• Digital technologies pose challenges and opportunities

6. NEED FOR DIGITAL LITERACY
We must equip our students with the knowledge,
capabilities and values essential to participate fully and
safely in an increasingly digital world.

7. NEW SKILLSETS REQUIRED
New skillsets for the knowledge economy…
• Complex problem solving
• Innovation and creativity
• Communication and collaboration
• Designers and creators – not passive consumers

8. COMPETING PHILOSOPHIES
Philosophy A Philosophy B
Education Broken, but can be fixed
(quickly)
Long term investment in the
future
Technology Drives change Enables, supports and
accelerates change
Teachers Another problem to be fixed Supported professionals
Learners The future workforce Future citizens
Innovation Flourishes in all directions Must be scalable and
sustainable
Success Input targets and
attainment
Wider long-term benefits,
personal and society
Curriculum Don’t trust teachers -
‘package’ it up
Guidance and support for
teachers
http://blog.core-ed.org/derek/2014/10/the-purpose-of-education-2.html

9. • Robot counsellor
• Rewilder
• Garbage designer
• Neighbourhood watch specialist
• Simplicity expert
• Healthcare navigator
• Nostalgist
• Telesurgeon
• Solar technology specialist
• Aquaponic fish farmer
http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367

10. WHAT IS FUTURE-FOCUSED EDUCATION?
How must schooling change to meet meet
the opportunities and challenges of the
21st century?

11. What is our vision of future schooling?

12. How is this different?

13. http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/07/28/five-things-students-say-they-want-from-education/

14. STUDENT EXPECTATIONS
Do I have opportunities to
explore and make
mistakes?
Do my teachers really know
about me and my interests and
talents?
Do I have opportunities to apply
what I am learning in real world
settings and contexts?
Washor, E and Mohkowski, C (2013) Leaving to learn
Do I find what the school is
teaching relevant to my
interests?
Do I feel appropriately
challenged in my learning?
Can I pursue my learning out
of the standard sequence?
Do I have sufficient time to
learn at my own pace?
Do I have real choice
about what, where
and how I learn?
Do I have opportunities to engage
deeply in my learning and to practice
the skills I need to lean?

15. FIVE ESSENTIAL SUPPORTS FOR SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS
• a coherent instructional-guidance
system
• professional capacity
• strong parent-community-school
ties
• a student-centered learning
climate
• the leadership to drive
change
https://ccsr.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/publications/
EssentialSupports.pdf

17. WHAT WILL LEARNING LOOK LIKE?

18. WHAT WILL LEARNING LOOK LIKE?

19. WHAT WILL LEARNING LOOK LIKE?

20. Learning Hubs – 130 Students & 5 Teachers

21. Small Group Individual Learning

22. Multiple Group Learning

23. IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY…
Pre-1980 1984 2000 2012
Typewriter
Desktop computer
Internet
Colour TV
Photocopier
Laptop
Ball point pen
VHS recorder
Mobile phone
Gestetner
Library
Digital camera
Fax
EFTPOS
YouTube
Landline
NZ Post
Touch
Wear
Talk
Think

24. WHERE NEXT?

25. CHALLENGE
Have we grasped how
significantly student access to
technology is changing their
expectations as learners?

26. MythBusters #1
Technology is a distraction – students
depend too much on technology and
will miss out on important learning!

27. Beware the seduction of technology

28. Modern technologies
provide students with
the potential for
experiences of
unprecedented
breadth, depth
and relevance.
.

29. We now have the
conditions for
modern learners to
tackle projects of
a complexity
previously
unimaginable.

30. ..as a result we must
rethink what we expect
of our students.
We must stop
underestimating what
they are now capable of;
and above all…set much
higher expectations
.

31. MythBusters #2
Modern learning is just a fad - there’s
no research supporting any of this
stuff!

32. EFFECTIVEEf TfecEtiAve CteaHchIinNgG an dA leNarDnin LgE ARNING…
occurs when…
Student autonomy
and initiative
accepted and
encouraged.
Students engage in
dialogue with
teacher and each
other
Teacher asks open-ended
Higher level thinking
is encouraged
questions
and allows wait
time for response
Class uses raw
data, primary
sources, physical
and interactive
materials.
Knowledge and ideas emerge only from a
situation in which learners have to draw
them out of experiences that have
meaning and importance to them.
Students are
engaged in
experiences that
challenge
hypotheses
John Dewey – Constructivist Pedagogy, 1916

33. Outdoor
learning
Increases social cooperation,
creativity, engagement and
achievement
Image credit: JISC 'Designing Spaces for Effective Learning'
LEARNING SETTINGS:
Prototyping
experimentation
Active learning, learning by doing,
develops spatial and mathematical
awareness
Collaboration
space
Increases learning faster than
competitive or individualistic
learning.
'One-to-many'
space
Direct instruction, reciprocal
teaching, not lectures
Multimedia
studio
Digital creation increases
cognitive growth,
multimedia increases retention
Peer tutoring
space
Increases learning for both
parties
Independent
practice space
Short to long-term memory
Reflection
space
Improves creativity, analysis
and prediction skills;
raises achievement
Choices in
learning
Choice agency increases
engagement, learning,
creativity graduation rates.
Informal
learning space
Play can increase attention
span,
making mistakes increases
creativty

34. ASB BUILDING
If this is the kind of work environment our young people will be functioning
in when they leave school, how well effectively we preparing them for this in
the environments we have in our schools?

35. MythBusters #3
This only suits some types of learners!

36. 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES
• kjh
Does this sort of environment suit all learners?

37. 21ST CENTURY LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS
• Self managed learning
• Un-tethered to traditional ‘school’
• Expert at personal data aggregation
• Power of connections
• Creating new communities
• Not tethered to physical networks
• Experiential learning
• Content developers
• Process as important as knowledge
gained
http://teachthinktech.learningconnective.org/post/1656186536/free-agent-learners

38. How many different types of spaces and different types of
WHAT WILL LEARNING LOOK LIKE?
learning are catered for in this classroom?

39. MythBusters #4
How do we know our kids will still
pass their tests and exams?

40. THE ASSESSMENT DILEMMA

41. THE ASSESSMENT DILEMMA
Curriculum content
We value what we assess
But do we assess what we value?
Student
engagement
Deep
learning
Many
measures
Few
measures

43. Derek Wenmoth
Email: derek@core-ed.org
Blog: http://blog.core-ed.org/derek
Skype: dwenmoth