educational values in a digital age

educational valuesin a digital age

Steve WheelerFaculty of Health, Education and Society

http://www.vend123.com/

revised and updated

Takeaways...

• the nature of knowledge• values in education• digital learning• assessment for learning• creative teaching St

everything is relative

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knowledge or wisdom?

http://slated.org

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Declarative vs Procedural

http://slated.org

Knowing that

Knowing how Stev

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“For the first time we are preparing

students for a future we

cannot clearly describe.”

- David Warlick

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

– Don Tapscotthttp://www.nationalpost.com

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Connections...

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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Looking for teachable moments

http://www.candyapplecostumes.com

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

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

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Doctors save lives.

Teachers make lives.

akicaree

rs.co.nz

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http://aproposofnothing.files.wordpress.com

Introducing computers into schools

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“A computer once beat me at chess...

...but was no match for me at kickboxing.”

http://woodforthetrees.files.wordpress.com Stev

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“How can technology make a person better? Only in this way: by providing each person with chances.”

- Kevin Kelly

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Digital Natives?

The Net

Generation?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/

Zappiens?

Learners need critical thinking skills

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“60% of all Internet pages

contain misleading

information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need digital wisdom

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language

personal data

language

Managing identity

nameimages

netiquette

reputation

avatar interaction

privacy

identity

legacy reputation

privacy

images

interaction

http://i.dailymail.co.uk

LOLZ lets post dis up on 2 Facebook

Responsibility and safety online

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The goal of education

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

“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

personalised Learning?

http://www.hseb.utah.edu

Are we preparing learners for

the future or the past?

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)

http://zumu.com

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The Virtual Learning Environment?

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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fair measures?

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

We need to think critically

about assessment

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Source: http://www.masalatime.com

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Source: http://www.goiit.com/posts/show/944766.htm

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http://4closurefraud.org

Assessment fails because the pedagogy fails...

Ipsative assessment...

...where a student’s learning is measured against previous attainment.

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We need to think critically

on our beliefs about learning

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VAK model

Visual Seeing and reading

Auditory Hearing and speaking

Kinaesthetic Touching and doing

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situated learning

Auditory

Visual

Kinaesthetic

I hear, I know

Cognition

I see, I remember

Memory

I do, I understand

Meta Cognition

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situated learning

Auditory

Visual

Kinaesthetic

I hear, I know

Cognition

I see, I remember

Memory

I do, I understand

Meta Cognition

Deeper Learning

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ality.o

http://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/ldu/

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

– Wheeler (2009)

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http://www.maslowshierarchyofneeds.net

“This field suffers from serious conceptual

confusion and a lack of

accumulated theoretical

knowledge.” – Coffield et al

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we need to think critically about creativity

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

Not enough time for questioning

Not enough time for experimentation and ‘play’

Regimented learning through a rigid curriculum

‘Transmission’ mode

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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A man enters

a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gogap/423485388/sizes/o/in/photostream/

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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

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Barack Obama Inauguration Speech 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.

http://www.canada.com

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...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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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”.

W. B. Yeatswww.preservefortlouis.org

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jupiterimages.com

Thank you

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Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk Plymouth University, United Kingdom

http://steve-wheeler.net

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