“On With The ( r ) evolution” RSC East Midlands e-fair 2012 Bob Harrison www.setuk.co.uk bob@setuk.co.uk Twitter @bobharrisonset

WANTED PIONEERS

Barriers to change-Diana Laurrilard 1. The drivers of the education system – assessment, curriculum, inspection/quality requirements, funding flows, promotion criteria – have not changed in recognition of what technology offers, so nothing within it can change.

Barriers to change 2. Technological change is very rapid, and because every  innovation is useful in education we need more time to  make the radical  changes they afford.

Barriers to change 3. The education system is run by leaders who are not comfortable  with either the detail or the implications of the technology potential, and they need more support.

Barriers to change 4. Education is a political activity so avoids being subject  to the  innovation that market forces encourage.

Barriers to change  5. Education systems change slowly because they are hierarchical command - control systems, rather than devolved - power adaptive systems. Teachers and lecturers are given neither the power nor the means to improve the nature and quality of the teaching-learning process through technology.

Revolution VS. Evolution?

Sigmoid Curve

Pioneers

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How would you like a graduate degree for $100? Sebastian Thrun How would you like a graduate degree for $100?

Pioneers Alan Turing

Are the New Millennium Learners Making the Grade? Technology use and Educational performance in Pisa Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Authors: Christine Redecker, Miriam Leis, Matthijs Leendertse, Yves Punie, Govert Gijsbers, Paul Kirschner, Slavi Stoyanov and Bert Hoogveld

Human-Computer Interaction in 2020 Being Human – Human – Computer interaction in the Year 2020 Edited by Richard Harper, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers and Abigail Sellen Published by Microsoft

Equipping Every Learner for the 21st Century

The Future of Thinking The Future of Thinking Learning Institutions in a Digital Age Cathy N. Davidson and David Thea Goldberg with the assistance of Zoe Marie Jones

The Learning Society The Learning Society

The Digital World Of Young Children: Impact on Emergent Literacy Jay Blanchard | Terry Moore Arizona State University College of Teacher Education and Leadership

Disrupting College

Learning In a Digital age

System Upgrade

Learners of the future

Learners of The Future

Teachers of the future…?

BSF “One of the clinical definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get a different result.” John Abbott

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1908 Learning 1958 2010 2012 Why is education so resistant to change? Over the next decade will it undergo as radical a transformation as the music industry? If so, it will have to face some of the same issues, such as preserving copyright and maintaining quality, and also some unique ones such as assessing learning in the field and bridging the gap between formal and non-formal education. We urgently need to address these issues if learning is to meet the challenges and opportunities of the mobile age. 32

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It’s not about the technology …. … it’s about new thinking.

The only barriers are in our heads! Almost all the barriers are in our heads.