messages in the tea leaves? phil langton (phil.langton@bristol.ac.uk) what have innovations ever...

Messages in the tea leaves?

Phil Langton (phil.langton@bristol.ac.uk)

What have innovations ever done for us?

Futures Café presentation – 14th October 2013

Historical Context

• Academic post 1995• Willing to tackle problems• Internet-friendly• Confident

[I think] I had good ideas......

....that didn’t always work.....

Don’t discount tea rooms…..

Where do good ideas come from?

[often] from unplanned conversations

Tea/coffee rooms are frequently the common factor

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwMut3-z1Y

Time to reflect?

Life is full of choices........

Pathways1 and 2

Pathway 3

Institutional change [just need a longer lever]

So I hatched a plan.......

Roediger & Karpicke (2006)

Roediger, H.L, III, & Karpicke, J.D. (2006). Psychological Science, 77,249-255

What things really matter?

John HattieInfluences on student learning

Is the best we can do?

Tomorrow will be like

today

Solids and thermal expansion

• Heat a solid • All atoms have more

energy and move more vigorously

• Distance between atoms increases

• The solid gets larger

Questions?

This and the next slide are taken from a presentation by Prof Eric Mazur (Harvard) - http://www.events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/2441 (See notes page too)

Consider a metal plate

The plate has a hole in it.

When we uniformly heat the plate, what happens to the size of the hole?

What happens to the diameter of the hole?

1 2 3

33%

43%

23%

1. It gets bigger

2. It gets smaller

3. It stays the same

Layers

What you see here is an image used in teaching. The annotations (arrows etc) are added by the lecturer and can be associated with text that is visible when the mouse is hovered over the annotation. These are added in layers that can be made visible or hidden as required

Layers

What would be great is to be able to write with pen over the top of the work – draw diagrams etc

Questions?

Links worth following

http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html (Khan – support approach)

http://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_firestein_the_pursuit_of_ignorance.html http://www.ted.com/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html (TED - Johnny Lee) https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0HdQYl8EBW8 (Google

fusion tables) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqEeIG8aPPk&feature=relmfu (Russ Ackoff – Systems) http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?P=5049 (Hattie) http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/42a069c217d34b9884ee2ff89a60a

9ca1d (Eric Mazur - Tryanny of Lecture; example of how to use e-voting)

https://www.ole.bris.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/xid-4056922_3 - 20 minute except of Mazur’s talk  http://brisvm.soms.bris.ac.uk/webViewer.php?snapshotId=1381752321

(virtual microscope)