The Purpos

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Education

Steve Wheeler

http://static.guim.co.uk

(and how it can be

transformed)

www.students.ou.edu

knowledge or wisdom?

http://slated.org

Surface Learning

Deep Learning

Marton and Säljö (1976)

Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

ENGAGEMENT

Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

http://slated.org

Knowing that

Knowing how

Knowing why

Knowledge

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

Declarative

Procedural

Critical Synthesis

Comprehension

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Tom Wagner (Harvard University)

• Critical thinking/Problem solving• Leadership and vision• Agility/Adaptability• Initiative/Entreprenuerial• Effective Communication Skills• Access and Analysis of Information• Curiosity/Imagination

Skills students need for business

The goal of education

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

“If you think education is expensive … try ignorance.”

– Derek Bok

What’s the best thing about school? – my friends

What’s the worst thing about school? – being treated like you’re an idiot

Doctors save lives.

Teachers make lives.

http://ww

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The Goal of Education “The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while

producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. Education is about teaching students, not subjects.” – Dave Truss

http://ucsbvrc.files.wordpress.com

“Education allows children to develop the skills and confidence

they need to strengthen their societies, break the cycle of

poverty and build peace in their communities.”

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“We all need to care more about how the children of the world are being educated.”

(Steve WheelerLearning with ‘e’s: February 2010)

Does education need transformation?

Source: Chambers English Dictionary

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

- Nietzschehttp://www.swissinfo.ch/media

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Factory education model?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com

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Synchronisation

Batch processing

Compartmentalisation

Standardisation

Personalised Learning?

http://www.delasallewaterford.com

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Are we preparing kids for

the future or for the past?

Education is changing for young people as they experience self-directed learning, (mostly outside school) about things that

interest them.Source: http://community.learningobjects.com

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Young people’s out-of-school experiences with technology can mean that students find the presentation of school curriculum less challenging, less relevant and less engaging. Source: http://community.learningobjects.com

http://encefalus.com/

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“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.” – David Warlick

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http://www.leics.gov.uk

The pace of change is

accelerating

How will we keep up with it?

Transformation…• …to change

people or things completely, especially improving their appearance or usefulness

• …to convert one form of energy to another

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Fair measures?

Assessment of, or for, learning?http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenhester/3901158717/

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Ipsative assessment

"In the times of rapid change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

- Eric Hoffer washingtonrebel.typepad.com

We don't need to reform the system. We need to replace the system.

~ Alvin Toffler

www.strategy-business.com

Learning Styles?

“There are as many learning styles as there are people.”

– Wheeler (2009)http://fluorescentflicker.files.wordpress.com

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VAK model

Visual Seeing and reading

Auditory Hearing and speaking

Kinaesthetic Touching and doing

Multi-modal learning...?

Auditory

Visual

Kinaesthetic

...or Confucius repurposed?

Auditory

Visual

Kinaesthetic

I see, I remember

I hear, I know

I do, I understand

Situated Learning

Auditory

Visual

Kinaesthetic

I see, I remember

I hear, I know

I do, I understand

Cognition

Memory Meta Cognition

Deeper Learning

Education – drawing out the potential of

each individual(Educere)

I cannot teach anyone. All I

can do is make them think.

Doctors save lives.

Teachers make lives.

http://ww

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“We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.”

- Sir Tim Berners-Leewww.topnews.in

Here are some strategies to consider…

“You can be imaginative all day long and never do anything. To be creative you have to do something. Creativity is applied imagination”.

– Sir Ken Robinsonhttp://www.wizdomeducation.com

Be creative

Join all nine dots using four straight lines. Do not take your pen from the paper and do not go back over any lines.

Thinking outside the box

A man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?

A man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?

Lateral thinking

Look for the teachable moments

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All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. - John Dewey

http://www.dancinghearts.org

Step outside your comfort zone

Get yourself a vision

“It’s not easy being blind, but it must be tragic when you can see, but you have no vision.”

- Helen Keller

http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/images/keller4.jpg

Positive Deviance“Somewhere in your organization, groups of people are already doing things differently and better. To create lasting change, find areas of positive deviance and fan their flames.”

- Pascale & Sternin (Harvard Business Review)

http://limpa-vias.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in

another time.

- Rabindranath Tagore

What will it take to transform education?

Go and be crazy