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TEACHING AND LEARNINGWHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
Teaching Assistant’s TrainingWyche CE School
Section 1:Time To Think
Time to Reflect
We are driven externally by government initiatives and pressures from OFSTED, QCA, SATS, Literacy strategy, Numeracy framework that we sometimes feel the agenda is written for us.
In the new Education Bill the Government is seeking to redress the balance between centralised directives and school based autonomy. (NZ model)
Key Questions
What is education for?Do we need it?Why have
schools?
An IntroductionShould education stay the same or should it change?
Education and the Future
Our reception children will leave university in 2022?Will we have prepared them for the world they will enterAre we educating for the future or the past?
Schools for the Future
“One of the only places operating largely as it did 50 years ago would be the local school”Renate Numella and Geoffrey Caine
Our Education System
A Victorian knowledge based system to prepare children for skills they need in an industrial workplace
Expanding knowledge
Is it possible for students to keep up with a knowledge based curriculum?
Knowledge in the world doubles every year (1985)
In science alone 10,000 new articles are published every day
The Changing World
“The world our kids are going to live in is changing four times faster than our schools”
Dr. William Daggett
Director of International centre for education and leadership
Section 2:What will the
Future Look Like?
If we can understand the major social and economic trends then we
can plan a future for our children
Trend 1: The Technological Revolution
The Age of Technological Revolution
“This age will be remembered in History as one that had a greater and more significant impact than the industrial revolution a century previous”
The power of Technology
We live in the first era in human history when our
species’ entire heritage of knowledge, wisdom and
beauty is available to each of us virtually on demand.
Robert Gross
Now choose what we want to learn and get instant information on it
In 1993 there were 50 web sites. Now there are in excess of 350 million
BBC website has over 1 million pages
151 million on Internet.
Now choose what we want to learn and get instant information on it
2001: 30 times as much email as post in the US
1994: More CD-ROM encyclopedias than printed ones.
Whole libraries and art galleries on one CD-ROM.
Changing Times, Changing Needs
Should farmers have taught their sons an agricultural curriculum in the mid 19th century?Should we be teaching an industrial curriculum at the beginning of the 21st century?
Information and Communications Technology
“Technology has revolutionised the way we work and is now set to revolutionise education. Children cannot be effective in tomorrows world if they are trained in yesterday’s skills”
Tony Blair: Net Year 1998
Keyboard Skills1980 A negative response to teaching keyboard skills
2001 A positive response to teaching keyboard skills?Voice activated computers
Trend 2: The One world economy
A One World Economy
“Everyone has access to the best that the world has to offer.”
Gordon Dryden
A One World EconomyThere are now few
economic bordersEach economy will need
entrepreneurs that can see and seize the myriad of opportunities that this new global market offers
Buying a scooter from the US
Four steps to new economy European Community
15 countries, 370 million people
North American FTA US, Canada, Mexico: 370 million, with
South America coming up
Asian-Pacific rim China replacing Japan as leader
Clusters of excellence Silicon Valley and “Overseas Chinese” (57 million Chinese entrepreneurs living outside mainland with 2-3
trillion US dollars which they will increasingly use to invest in Asia)
Trend 3: The Service Sector
Manufacturing1900 50.0%1980 3.5%1992 2.0%2000 1.5%
Farming
1960 40%1990 17%2000 10% 2000
This leaves88.5%
Services
The new service society
The New Service SocietyGeneral Electric 1980 $25 billion 2000 $130 billion 2001 $c450 billion
“GE can no longer prosper by selling manufacturing goods alone” Jack Welch (Chief Exec)
The New Service Society80% of GE profits now come from services as opposed to 16.4% in 1980
For years it sold CAT scanners to hospitalsIn 1995 it won a contract to service them all and those of its competitors
Trend 4: The Changing shape of work
Changing shape of work
Four clusters:
Few fulltime Project work Part-time Self employed
From Big to Small
“90% of new jobs are in companies with under 50 people”
John NaisbittMega trends
From Big to Small
“By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be self”
Nicholas NegroponteBeing Digital
From big to smallFranchising
$250 billion in US 20,000 McDonalds
Networking $20 billion in Japan:
Amway 2.5 million
From big to small
The innovative entrepreneur will find opportunities to dovetail a small business into a large corporation
Cakes at SomerfieldThe school lunches
From big to small
The trend towards“personalised scale”
The move to harness the benefits of “economies of scale” to meet the needs of the individual consumere.g. Levi jeans (body size, colour, style etc.)
The Knowledge EconomyThe locus of control
The industrial economy had a boss/worker balance
The knowledge economy thrives on those who work independently.
Why employ a worker and a boss when a man can work independently?
The Knowledge Economy
We will not apply for jobs we will invent them.We will work from home and create a career
The Knowledge Economy
The key will be to reinvent yourself and your career throughout your working lifetime
Your home….Your everything
Your home will be your new learning centre, leisure centre,Entertainment centre and work centre
Something to Ponder
What are the social implications ?
Permanent job insecurityInsularity of single workplace/home
How should schools prepare children for it?
Trend 4: The Age of Leisure
The new age of leisure
In an old manufacturing 45 hour week we would work 9000 hours in a 40 year career
In an EU 35 hour week we would work 7000 hours
How will we use these extra 2000 hours?
The new age of leisure
There will be 2 billion tourists by 2000.
Britain already attracts 23 million visitors
(France 56 million Orlando 34 million)
How important is it to
prepare children to use
leisure time wisely?
Psychological Implications
“Stress can be the perception of being unable to cope with too much or too little in one’s life”
The breaking down of the “Protestant work ethic”
How vital is PE, Music and Art?
Trend 5: Women in leadership
Women in leadership USA: In 1980’s of 22
million new jobs, two thirds taken by women
JAPAN: Nearly all currency traders are women
HONG KONG: One in five management jobs
BRITAIN: Anita Roddick and The Bodyshop set the new business ethic
Women in leadership
Key Reasons
The rise of the equal opportunities agenda
The skills of the knowledge economy are interpersonal in nature
Trend 6: Greater Democracy
The soul of the 21st Century
“For the first time in history more people live under governments of their own choosing than under dictatorships”
The soul of the 21st Century
“The victims (of September 11th) represent the world I worked hard to build, a world of expanding freedom, opportunity and citizen responsibility a world of growth in diversity and in the bonds of community” Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001
The view of the terrorists
“The terrorists thought that the differences they have with us were all that mattered and anyone who did not share it were a legitimate target” Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001
The view of true Democracy
“Most of us believe that our differences are important and make our lives interesting but that our common humanity matters more” Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001
The struggle for the soul
“The clash between these two views more than any other single issue , will define the shape and the soul of this new century” Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001
Poverty and Social Cohesion
“We have seen how abject poverty accelerates conflict, how it recruits for terrorists and those who incite ethnic and religious hatred, how it fuels a violent rejection of the economic and social order on which our future depends”Bill Clinton: Warwick University Dec 2000
The White Paper 1998
“Our goal is a society in which everyone is well educated …… Britain’s economic prosperity and social cohesion both depend on achieving that goal”
“Excellence for all” 1998 White Paper on education (p10 para10)
The New Agenda
Curriculum 2000 sees Citizenship and Politics in the curriculum
Drive for school’s councils
The Burdens
Problems are now global and require global solutionsPovertyEnvironmentHealth esp.AIDSHi-tech terrorism
Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001
The growing underclass19 million unemployed
in affluent Europe.60% in downtown areas
of some American cities.
Ethnic minorities at risk where no city manufacturing jobs exist.
Section 3:Where do we go from here?
What schools do we need?
In the light of these trends how and what do you think a 21st century
school should
be teaching?
Schools or the web?Palmtops now hold
over 1,000 booksHarvard and Stanford
university are after the world market on education
They have the whole maths curriculum on the web NOW
Information and Communications Technology
“Schools are not the sole channel of knowledge”
Michael Wills (Government Minister)
BETT exhibition London - January 2000
Information and Communications Technology
“….a pick and mix education with technology as the prime facilitator”
Comment from lead article in
“Information and Technology Journal”
Distance Learning in practice
Schools in West Scotland Morning in school Afternoon at home
distance learning
Technology – The truth
Technology is simply
the digital plumbing. In and of itself it
is not the answer
nor is it the futureThe industrial revolution
spurned a new form of education
4 keys to the Future
My own thoughts on areas we need to address in education nationally and locally here at The Wyche to prepare children for the future
A Glimpse into the future:1Creative Thinking
Ability to create new not just regurgitate and memorise the old (knowledge based)
Therefore Creativity and Lateral Thinking are key development areas
“We can analyse the past but we can create the future”
A Glimpse into the future:1 Creative Thinking
Swtach
A watch for a lifetime or as a fashion accessory
Haagan-Daz
Ice cream: from child to adult
A Glimpse into the future:2 Independent Learning
Children in charge of their own learning
The locus of control
If the teacher leaves the room does the learning continue?
A Glimpse into the future:2 Learning Styles
The key role of education is to teach children how to learn not what to learn
A Glimpse into the future:3 Emotional Intelligence
Emotional literacy – Goldman 80% 0f what we use in the real world is emotional literacy. 20% is academic intelligence
Emotional Intelligence and number fans
A Glimpse into the future:4 Change is here to stay
“The only thing that will never change is the fact that there will always be change.”
(Anon.)
A Glimpse into the future:4 Change is here to stay
“It is not the strongest species that will survive nor the most intelligent but those that can adapt to change”
Charles Darwin
A Glimpse into the future:4 Six key skills required by Industry
Self ConfidenceCommunication skillsWork in teamsEvaluate InformationPersonal/Time management skillsAbility to cope with and (better still)
create change(Survey undertaken in 2002)
A Glimpse into the future:4The Learned or the Learner?
“ In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists”
Presentation CompleteWell Done for staying with it
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