Education for Better Futures: The Duality of Digital Learning
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This document appears to be a presentation discussing competing visions for the future of education in a digital world. It explores two major worldviews - the Knowledge Economy perspective, which focuses on threats, unbundling institutions, and increased competition through reforms like school choice, and the Knowledge Society perspective, which emphasizes opening access, personalized learning, entrepreneurship, and education's role in building an inclusive just society. The presentation examines the rhetoric around these issues and how different groups use similar language to support different agendas, noting the gap between rhetoric and reality. It encourages rethinking education's role in societal change.
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Education for Better Futures: The Duality of Digital Learning
- 1. EDIL 2019 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 25th June 2019 Liverpool Hut, Mt Aspiring New Zealand
- 2. 2018
- 6. Liverpool Hut, Mt Aspiring New Zealand
- 7. “The light comes through the gaps” @mbrownz
- 8. The Rhetoric Reality Gap
- 9. State of Art vs. State of Actual Gap
- 10. Near vs. Far Gap
- 14. Different interest groups and stakeholders are borrowing the same ‘languages of persuasion’ to legitimize very different agenda
- 16. “It is theory that decides what we can observe”
- 18. • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • TWO MAJOR WORLDVIEWS COMPETING DIGITAL FUTURES
- 19. Knowledge Economy • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • TWO MAJOR WORLDVIEWS COMPETING DIGITAL FUTURES
- 20. “And we’ve got to bring on the competition — open the schoolhouse doors and let parents choose the best school for their children. Education reformers call this school choice, charter schools, vouchers, even opportunity scholarships. I call it competition — the American way.” Donald Trump, in his book “The America We Deserve”
- 21. Knowledge Economy • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • TWO MAJOR WORLDVIEWS Knowledge Society COMPETING DIGITAL FUTURES
- 22. “Education has a crucial role to play in laying the foundations of a society that is more inclusive, participatory and equal...” The President said “…the role of the university in enabling citizens to develop the tools to address the great challenges of our time – global poverty, climate change and sustainability – was vital.
- 23. Knowledge Economy • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • TWO MAJOR WORLDVIEWS Knowledge Society COMPETING DIGITAL FUTURES • Democratic • Opening access • Micro credentials • Personalized learning • Competencies • Entrepreneurship • Technology as progress • Increased market competition • Just society • Lifelong learning • Pillars of learning • Education for citizenry • Sifting agent • Human capital • Social cohension • Cultural heritage ReconceptualizingDeschooling ReschoolingReproducing
- 25. Photo by Daniel Jensen on Unsplash
- 35. Final comment…
- 36. “Digital learning should be in the service of big ideas, not as a big idea in itself” (adapted from Barnett, 2011)
- 38. Go raibh maith agaibh! Thank you
Editor's Notes
- MB: The concept of digital literacy was first introduced back in 1997 and as this seminal book illustrates there are many and varied interpretations of this concept.
- https://pixabay.com/en/train-tracks-walking-journey-alone-1081672/
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- Borrowing the words of President Michael Higgins, from this perspective higher education has a role in promoting more inclusive, participatory, equitable and sustainable futures for all.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- Around the Table
- The ideas in this video are potentially scary! As Professor George Siemens, a widely respected thought leader, tweets… The question is how do Irish educators get around the table in an emerging unbundled world in order to shape our own future?