Invited keynote presentation at SITE Conference, New Orleans, 16th March 2023

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16th March 2023
Mark Brown

2. Mind-Analysis-Tool

3. Mark

4. METAPHORS…
Mind-Analysis-Tool

5. Rewilding

6. https://www.aupress.ca/books/120309-metaphors-of-ed-tech/
2022

7. What metaphor best
describes the past, the
present, and the future,
of digital education?

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Outline…
Present
Past Future

10. http://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/709/394

11. 2022
https://education.ec.europa.eu/news/ethical-guidelines-on-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence-and-data-in-teaching-and-learning-for-educators

12. Photo by Pavel Togobitskiy on Unsplash
What are some of underlying myths, half-truths
and contradictions about digital transformation?

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“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a
caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but…

17. “…when done wrong, all you have is a
really fast caterpillar”
Photo by Andrew Claypool on Unsplash
(Westerman; cited in Bozkurt & Sharma, 2022, p. ii).

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Digital transformation is more like the cross-
pollinating flight of a butterfly rather than the
direct path of a bullet.
(adapted from Cuban 2018).

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Be wary of the game changer discourse..

20. “Digital transformation
(Dx) is a series of deep
and coordinated culture,
workforce, and
technology shifts
that enable new
educational and operating
models and transform
an institution’s
operations, strategic
directions, and value
proposition.”
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2019/7/getting-ready-for-digital-transformation-change-your-culture-workforce-and-technology

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BIG ‘T’ and little ‘t’ transformation...

23. SFDN
Technological determinism

24. Social determinism

25. Entangled
Messy

30. Photo by Pavel Togobitskiy on Unsplash
How successful have we been at cultivating
transformative mindsets amongst our teachers?

31. https://olc.worldbank.org/about-olc/education-meets-the-metaverse-reimagining-the-future-of-learning
1993
Teachers College Record

32. 2021

34. Project
Plato 1960s

35. Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash
More things change, the more they stay the same!

36. History Repeats!

37. We need to
challenge the old
pump, pump, DUMP
model of technology-enhanced teaching

38. 2008
1999

39. Brown, 2022
Learning Transfer…

40. Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash
1996
Who broke the vase?

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“Classrooms using Decisions,
Decisions erupted with
delightful intelligent
conversations. The
computer was almost
invisible but what it made
happen was beautiful.”

42. Online Role-Play
The value of pedagogical emptiness…

43. The value of pedagogical emptiness…
• Adoption of SuccessMaker™
• Development of a computer lab
• Introduction of laptops in the classroom

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Social Determinism
Technocratic Nightmare
Technocratic Dream
Technological Determinism
Techno-centric
Perspective
Human-centric
Perspective
Demon
Perspective
Libertarian
Perspective
Critics

45. The stakeholders
Fred Master

46. Dot Com is the…

47. Irma Fossil is the…

50. “How does one become a butterfly… you must
want to fly so much that you are willing to give
up being a caterpillar”.
Photo by Sonika Agarwal on Unsplash
(Trina Paulus, adapted from A. A. Milne, 1922).

51. Photo by Pavel Togobitskiy on Unsplash
Is the rise of platform power and technology
solutionism stifling or enabling teachers’ criticality?

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55. Chewing
gum has a
dirty little
secret…
A sticky problem!

56. https://ospreydc.com
Stains 85% of our streets

57. Photo by Hiroko Yoshii on Unsplash

59. 1969
?

60. Beyond
participation
in
society
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128415

62. “Digital Education
should be in the service of
big ideas,
not as a big idea
in itself”
(adapted from Barnett, 2011)

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65. [ Blended | On-line | Digital ]

66. https://digieduhack.com

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