messages in the tea leaves? phil langton ([email protected]) what have innovations ever...
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Messages in the tea leaves?
Phil Langton ([email protected])
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)