educational valuesin a digital age

Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth

http://www.vend123.com/

here’s my plan...

• the nature of knowledge• values in education• digital learning• creative approaches

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didacticsvs.

education

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knowledge or wisdom?

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http://slated.org

http://commarts.edgewood.edu/socrates.jpg

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“I cannot teach anyone, all I can do is make them think.” – Socrates

what is education for?

“An 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.”

- Save the Children

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the goal of education

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“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://www.dailymail.co.uk

transforming education?

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." – Nietzsche cc

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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in

school” – Einstein

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http://gradeproud.com

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

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http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/

“It's not what you know that counts anymore. It's what you can learn.”

– Don Tapscott

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http://www.nationalpost.com

“I cannot teach anyone, all I can do is make them think.” – Socrates

http://commarts.edgewood.edu/socrates.jpg

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…but how do you make them think?

when do we pay attention?

• we respect the speaker• interesting and relevant• unusual• uncertainty

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http://englishinguiabasico.wordpress.com/2009/01/

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digital natives?

http://tatango.com

personalised Learning?

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http://www.delasallewaterford.com

personalised Learning?

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http://www.hseb.utah.edu

we are family

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http://pro.corbis.com

Wii are family!

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http://wiifitnessdepot.com

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Learning 2.0

User generated

content

architecture of participation

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Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

architecture of participation

Tagging

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Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

architecture of participation

TaggingIf it’s not participatory

it’s not social media

funnels or webs?“The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment [...] into one of learning, sharing and caring”.

– Illich (1970)

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http://zumu.com

digital cultural capital“Where digital communication has fractured the tyranny of distance and computers have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation has become the new cultural capital”.

- Wheeler (2009)

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http://www.coreideas.com.au/

digital totems?

• Gathering place• Rituals• Celebration• Transmission of customs,

social mores and values (storytelling)

• = Tribal identity• Social networks

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcbwalsh/3412625028/

assessment?

normativevs

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assessment?

normativevs

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Ipsative assessment measures learners against their own previous personal

achievements

learning styles?

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

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

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the VAK model…

Visual Seeing and reading

Auditory Hearing and speaking

Kinaesthetic Touching and doing

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…multi-modal learning...?

Auditory

Visual

Kinaesthetic

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...or Confucius repurposed?

Auditory

Visual

Kinaesthetic

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I see, I remember

I hear, I know

I do, I understand

situated learning

Auditory

Visual

Kinaesthetic

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I see, I remember

I hear, I know

I do, I understand

Cognition

Memory Meta Cognition

Deeper Learning

anytime

flexible

personalised learning

anyplace

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what are the barriers to creativity?

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barriers to creativity

teacher insisting on the ‘right answer’

impatience with ‘dreamers’

contempt for ‘unusual’ solutions

no time for questioning

no time for experimentation and ‘play’

regimented learning through a rigid curriculum

‘transmission’ mode

fear?

lack of self confidence?

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Join all nine dotsUsing four straight Lines. Do not takeYour pen from the Paper and do not Go back over any Lines.

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Thinking ‘outside the box’ means we go beyond the fixity of our

natural perception

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

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

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creative use of ICT

• Creativity in mobile texting

• Creativity in social network spaces (Bebo, MySpace, YouTube, FaceBook, Flickr etc)

• Creativity in Animation

• Using IWBs interactively

• Creative writing in wikis & blogs

• etc…

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what is this?

http//wordle.com

Barack Obama’s inauguration speech …

http//wordle.com…in Wordle

what is this?

dad@hvn ur spshl. we want wot u want & urth 2b like hvn. giv us food & 4giv r sins lyk we 4giv uvaz. don't test us! save us! bcos we kno ur boss. ur tuf & ur cool 4 eva! ok?

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‘squeeze’ text

The competition was for re-writing the Lord's Prayer for the mobile phone, using just 160 characters or less. It was judged for Ship of Fools by the Churches' Broadcasting Conference. The task itself was not easy. The traditional version of the Lord's Prayer is 372 characters long, so whittling it down to 160 characters meant cutting the prayer by more than half but without losing anything important.

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http://www.canada.com

...and in second place…

r pa in evan, respect 2 u, may u rain ear as in evan. giv us r needs, 4giv r sin as we 4giv r nmes. resq us from the evil 1. 4 ur always the most xlent dude. yo

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in your own teaching…

• What areas of your own teaching are difficult to perform with current resources?

• What ways could your teaching be transformed through the use of ICT?

• What would be creative about it?

• What might be the limitations of using ICT?

http://www.eurolinkcourses.co.uk

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“All too often today we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants”

– John W Gardner

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http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg

thank you

swheeler@plymouth.ac.uksteve-wheeler.blogspot.com

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