Download - The Purpose of Education
The Purpos
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Education
Steve Wheeler
http://static.guim.co.uk
(and how it can be
transformed)
www.students.ou.edu
knowledge or wisdom?
http://slated.org
Surface Learning
Deep Learning
Marton and Säljö (1976)
Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
Transformation
ENGAGEMENT
Knowledge
Wisdom
Transformation
http://slated.org
Knowing that
Knowing how
Knowing why
Knowledge
Application
Analysis
Evaluation
Declarative
Procedural
Critical Synthesis
Comprehension
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Tom Wagner (Harvard University)
• Critical thinking/Problem solving• Leadership and vision• Agility/Adaptability• Initiative/Entreprenuerial• Effective Communication Skills• Access and Analysis of Information• Curiosity/Imagination
Skills students need for business
The goal of education
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
“If you think education is expensive … try ignorance.”
– Derek Bok
What’s the best thing about school? – my friends
What’s the worst thing about school? – being treated like you’re an idiot
Doctors save lives.
Teachers make lives.
http://ww
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The Goal of Education “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://ucsbvrc.files.wordpress.com
“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.”
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“We all need to care more about how the children of the world are being educated.”
(Steve WheelerLearning with ‘e’s: February 2010)
Does education need transformation?
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."
- Nietzschehttp://www.swissinfo.ch/media
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Factory education model?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com
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Synchronisation
Batch processing
Compartmentalisation
Standardisation
Personalised Learning?
http://www.delasallewaterford.com
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Are we preparing kids for
the future or for the past?
Education is changing for young people as they experience self-directed learning, (mostly outside school) about things that
interest them.Source: http://community.learningobjects.com
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Young people’s out-of-school experiences with technology can mean that students find the presentation of school curriculum less challenging, less relevant and less engaging. Source: http://community.learningobjects.com
http://encefalus.com/
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“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.” – David Warlick
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http://www.leics.gov.uk
The pace of change is
accelerating
How will we keep up with it?
Transformation…• …to change
people or things completely, especially improving their appearance or usefulness
• …to convert one form of energy to another
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Source: Banksy
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Fair measures?
Assessment of, or for, learning?http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenhester/3901158717/
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Ipsative assessment
"In the times of rapid change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
- Eric Hoffer washingtonrebel.typepad.com
We don't need to reform the system. We need to replace the system.
~ Alvin Toffler
www.strategy-business.com
Learning Styles?
“There are as many learning styles as there are people.”
– Wheeler (2009)http://fluorescentflicker.files.wordpress.com
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VAK model
Visual Seeing and reading
Auditory Hearing and speaking
Kinaesthetic Touching and doing
Multi-modal learning...?
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
...or Confucius repurposed?
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand
Situated Learning
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand
Cognition
Memory Meta Cognition
Deeper Learning
Education – drawing out the potential of
each individual(Educere)
I cannot teach anyone. All I
can do is make them think.
Doctors save lives.
Teachers make lives.
http://ww
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“We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.”
- Sir Tim Berners-Leewww.topnews.in
Here are some strategies to consider…
“You can be imaginative all day long and never do anything. To be creative you have to do something. Creativity is applied imagination”.
– Sir Ken Robinsonhttp://www.wizdomeducation.com
Be creative
Join all nine dots using four straight lines. Do not take your pen from the paper and do not go back over any lines.
Thinking outside the box
A man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?
A man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?
Lateral thinking
Look for the teachable moments
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All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. - John Dewey
http://www.dancinghearts.org
Step outside your comfort zone
Get yourself a vision
“It’s not easy being blind, but it must be tragic when you can see, but you have no vision.”
- Helen Keller
http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/images/keller4.jpg
Positive Deviance“Somewhere in your organization, groups of people are already doing things differently and better. To create lasting change, find areas of positive deviance and fan their flames.”
- Pascale & Sternin (Harvard Business Review)
http://limpa-vias.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in
another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What will it take to transform education?
Go and be crazy