Welcome To the Learning Revolution Series
Thinking in Future Tense
Today’s world is constantly on the move. The rate at which things are changing is so profound that you can’t trust your eyes to show you reality, because they’re really showing you history. This presentation challenges your assumptions about the world we live in by carefully examining the significance of several global exponential trends. Thinking In Future Tense asks us to consider how these trends are affecting our personal and professional lives, our children, our learning institutions, the nature of teaching and learning, and even our definition of intelligence. It is a compelling glimpse into the bold, dynamic future that awaits us all.
Teaching With the Future In Mind
Learning the problems first approach instructional model will radically change the role of the teacher and the student in the classroom. Teachers will be unburdened from the pressure of having to tell students everything, and freed up to be a facilitator of learning. Students will be encouraged to own their learning by discovering course material as they solve real world problems. Participants will leave with practical strategies to use this new instructional model in their classrooms.
Process Learning For the 21st Century: the 8 Essential Skills For Success In the Future
How do you take the instructional ideas from great educational thinkers like Piaget, Montessori, Dewey, Vygotsky, Bloom, Dale and Glasser and implement them in your classroom? How can we apply the research of John Hattie’s Visible Learning to enhance student learning? The traditional model of instruction is an obstacle to this kind of learning. Therefore a radically new approach is required to align teaching with the ideas of these great thinkers. In this workshop, participants will learn how to craft problem-based scenarios to facilitate discovery learning based on the 8 I’s:
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Independent Problem-Solving Skills
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Interdependent Collaboration Skills
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Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Communication Skills
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Information Investigation Skills
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Information Communication Skills
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Imagination Skills
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Innovation Skills
- Internet Citizenship Skills.
ome prepared to have your assumptions about teaching, learning and assessment challenged.
Education in the Age of Disrupted Learning (K-12)
History is littered with examples of industries that, at their peril, failed to respond to – or even to notice – changes in the world around them. From railroads to steel manufacturers to media producers, the message is clear – those who do not innovate quickly run the risk of going out of business. We have reached that stage with tertiary education.Today, we are in the middle of a swirling vortex of revolutionary technologies that have created intense economic shifts, disorienting demographic patterns, and disruptive cultural transformations. Emerging technologies have created radically changing mindsets that have globalized and disrupted just about every aspect of our lives. This is the Age of Disrupted Learning—an age where every part of our society is experiencing a complete upheaval. Our schools, like our businesses, communities, and families, must constantly adapt to these changing conditions to thrive. The Age of Disruption examines the changing nature of the workforce; identifies the 8 critical 21st-century skills not being addressed by our current educational system; and outlines how we can effectively engage learners so that they can perform exceptionally well on exams, while simultaneously learning the critical new basics needed to excel in both school and life.
Education in the Age of Disrupted Learning (Tertiary)
History is littered with examples of industries that, at their peril, failed to respond to – or even to notice – changes in the world around them. From railroads to steel manufacturers to media producers, the message is clear – those who do not innovate quickly run the risk of going out of business. We have reached that stage with tertiary education.Today, we are in the middle of a swirling vortex of revolutionary technologies that have created intense economic shifts, disorienting demographic patterns, and disruptive cultural transformations. Emerging technologies have created radically changing mindsets that have globalized and disrupted just about every aspect of our lives. This is the Age of Disrupted Learning—an age where every part of our society is experiencing a complete upheaval . Tertiary education, just like our businesses, communities, and families, must quickly adapt to the changing conditions in order to survive.
This presentation examines the changing nature of the Australian work force; identifies the critical 21st-century skills not being addressed by our current tertiary educational system; and introduces participants to the entirely new vocabulary of disrupted learning – self-organized and informal learning, self-directed learning, self determined learning, hybrid learning, blended learning, radically personalized learning, non-linear learning, learning analytics, diversified credentialism and continuous career readiness – all being driven by disruptive new learning agents and rising wave of social innovation. Welcome to the Age of Disrupted Learning!
An Introduction To the Future of Education
The current educational mindset has been with us for so long, that educators just accept it without thinking about it. If we don’t first address the mindset issues, then all that will happen is that educators will take new ideas and try to graft them on to traditional ways of thinking and daily practices related to teaching, learning and assessment. The future will have different challenges, different learner requirements, and require different learning tools. This workshop outlines a wide range of practical and explicit strategies that blend the best of what we currently do in the classroom, with new approaches to address the changing realities of the modern world and modern students.
Windows On the Future
The world is no longer the stable and predictable place that it once was. There are many who say that the changes in the next five years will absolutely dwarf those of the last 50 years. What impact will this have on education? What will learning look like, and how will it be assessed? What skills will be most highly valued in learners and educators? And how can educators design effective learning environments in a world of constant, exponential change? This presentation takes you on a time machine 13 years into the future to explore the shift in curriculum and thinking that will be necessary to equip learners for the new basics needed for success in the 21st century, and identifies what this signifies for educators. The Windows On the Future will show you how schools can prepare students to be effective learners, and educators to be more effective teachers, in a fundamentally different world than the one we grew up in.