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Unlearning Education Unlearning Education
Erica McWilliamErica McWilliam
Schools Moodle Moot, 2012, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, 12 April, 2012Schools Moodle Moot, 2012, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, 12 April, 2012
Unlearning
“What holds people back from taking risks is often as not …their knowledge, not their ignorance”.
Charles Leadbeater
1. The future isn’t what it used to be.
Data Transformation: the 4 Data Transformation: the 4 Vs Vs
VolumeVolume
VarietyVariety
VelocityVelocity
VeracityVeracity
Cultural TransformationsCultural Transformations
ConnectednessConnectedness
Generational Change in the Generational Change in the WorkplaceWorkplace:
New Power Plays New Power Plays - - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
Mistrust Mistrust
Moral-ethical issues Moral-ethical issues
2. We cannot teach kids 2. We cannot teach kids what they will need to what they will need to
know.know.
3. Learning & 3. Learning & unlearning matter more unlearning matter more
than knowing.than knowing.
Myth Reality
Flash of insight Comes from immersionBrilliant idea Fail often but earlyIndividualistic CollaborativeNew knowledge Admitting ignoranceInvention Mostly developmentOriginality BorrowingLook to the future Look sideways and backwardsAll about learning Unlearning just as vital as learningInternal R & D Networked, open innovationProduct pipeline Consumers as innovators (prod-
users)
Unlearning Unlearning Innovation Innovation
Source: Charlie Leadbeater
Myth Reality
Flash of insight Comes from immersionBrilliant idea Fail often but earlyIndividualistic CollaborativeNew knowledge Admitting ignoranceInvention Mostly development
Originality Borrowing
Look to the future Look sideways and backwardsAll about learning Unlearning just as vital as learningInternal R & D Networked, open innovationProduct pipeline Consumers as innovators (prod-
users)
Unlearning Unlearning Innovation Innovation
Source: Charlie Leadbeater
4. The cafe, not the school, is 4. The cafe, not the school, is the proper antecedent of the proper antecedent of
lifelong learning. lifelong learning.
The Penny Conference The Penny Conference 20122012
http://www.skillshare.com/penny#/about
In the 18th century … coffee houses were known as Penny Universities. For a mere penny, people entered a communal space overflowing with ideas, literature, intellectual conversations and inspired debates. Here, men and women came to improve their minds, challenge their mindsets, and build a roadmap for change.
Penny Conference Agenda
• Together, we’ll answer one simple question… if we had to re-invent education from the ground-up for the 21st century, what would it look like and how can we create that future together?
• Conversations and debates are highly encouraged. Action is required. Join us to create a roadmap that will change the way our kids’ kids’ kids will learn.
5. Self-managers with 5. Self-managers with powerful learning powerful learning
portfolios trump those portfolios trump those who rely solely on who rely solely on
credentialscredentials
From Pyramid to From Pyramid to NetworkNetwork
Command and Control
Value Networks
Epistemological agilityEpistemological agility
“The capacity for moving seamlessly across disparate knowledge domains in ways that make for better living, learning and earning”
Involves: • The ability to select, re-shuffle, combine, or synthesise already existing
facts, ideas, and skills in original ways through skills like pattern recognition, creation of analogies and mental models, the ability to cross domains, the exploration of alternatives, knowledge of schema for problem-solving and fluency of thought
• ‘Knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do’ (useful ignorance)
• Learning from the instructive complications of error-making
• Anticipating the pleasure of the rigour of trans-disciplinary thinking
6. Distractibility is a boon 6. Distractibility is a boon to learning, not a mental to learning, not a mental
illness illness
7. Effective pedagogy exploits 7. Effective pedagogy exploits the productive tension the productive tension
between intentionality and between intentionality and distractibility.distractibility.
sage on the stage
guide on the side
meddler in the middle
Unlearning how to teachUnlearning how to teach
7 Propositions
• The future isn’t what it used to be.• We cannot teach kids what they will need to know.We cannot teach kids what they will need to know.• Learning & unlearning matter more than knowing.Learning & unlearning matter more than knowing.• The cafe, not the school, is the proper antecedent The cafe, not the school, is the proper antecedent
of lifelong learning.of lifelong learning.• Self-managers with powerful learning portfolios Self-managers with powerful learning portfolios
trump those who rely solely on credentials.trump those who rely solely on credentials.• Distractability is a boon to learning, not a mental Distractability is a boon to learning, not a mental
illness.illness.• Effective pedagogy exploits the productive tension Effective pedagogy exploits the productive tension
between intentionality and distractability. between intentionality and distractability.
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