TEACHING AND LEARNING WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

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TEACHING AND LEARNINGWHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

• Teaching Assistants Training
• Wyche CE School

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Section 1Time To Think
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Time to Reflect

• We are driven externally by government
  initiatives and pressures from OFSTED, QCA, SATS,
  Literacy strategy, Numeracy framework that we
  sometimes feel the agenda is written for us.
• In the new Education Bill the Government is
  seeking to redress the balance between
  centralised directives and school based autonomy.
  (NZ model)

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Key Questions

• What is education for?
• Do we need it?
• Why have
• schools?

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An Introduction

• Should education stay the same or should it
  change?

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Education and the Future

• Our reception children will leave university in
  2022?
• Will we have prepared them for the world they
  will enter
• Are we educating for the future or the past?

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Schools for the Future

• One of the only places operating largely as it
  did 50 years ago would be the local school
• Renate Numella and Geoffrey Caine

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Our Education System

• A Victorian knowledge based system to prepare
  children for skills they need in an industrial
  workplace

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Expanding knowledge

• Is it possible for students to keep up with a
  knowledge based curriculum?
• Knowledge in the world doubles every year (1985)
• In science alone 10,000 new articles are
  published every day

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The Changing World

• The world our kids are going to live in is
  changing four times faster than our schools
• Dr. William Daggett
• Director of International centre for education
  and leadership

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Section 2What will the Future Look Like?

• If we can understand the major social and
  economic trends then we can plan a future for our
  children

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Trend 1 The Technological Revolution
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The Age of Technological Revolution

• This age will be remembered in History as one
  that had a greater and more significant impact
  than the industrial revolution a century previous

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The power of Technology

• We live in the first era in human history when
  our species entire heritage of knowledge, wisdom
  and beauty is available to each of us virtually
  on demand.
• Robert Gross

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Now choose what we want to learn and get instant
information on it

• In 1993 there were 50 web sites. Now there are in
  excess of 350 million
• BBC website has over 1 million pages
• 151 million on Internet.

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Now choose what we want to learn and get instant
information on it

• 2001 30 times as much email as post in the US
• 1994 More CD-ROM encyclopedias than printed
  ones.
• Whole libraries and art galleries on one CD-ROM.

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Changing Times, Changing Needs

• Should farmers have taught their sons an
  agricultural curriculum in the mid 19th century?
• Should we be teaching an industrial curriculum at
  the beginning of the 21st century?

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Information and Communications Technology

• Technology has revolutionised the way we work
  and is now set to revolutionise education.
  Children cannot be effective in tomorrows world
  if they are trained in yesterdays skills
• Tony Blair Net Year 1998

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Keyboard Skills

• 1980
• A negative response to teaching keyboard skills
• 2001
• A positive response to teaching keyboard skills?
• Voice activated computers

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Trend 2 The One world economy
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A One World Economy

• Everyone has access to the best that the world
  has to offer.
• Gordon Dryden

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A One World Economy

• There are now few economic borders
• Each economy will need entrepreneurs that can see
  and seize the myriad of opportunities that this
  new global market offers
• Buying a scooter from the US

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Four steps to new economy

• European Community
• 15 countries, 370 million people
• North American FTA
• US, Canada, Mexico 370 million, with South
  America coming up
• Asian-Pacific rim
• China replacing Japan as leader
• Clusters of excellence
• Silicon Valley and Overseas Chinese
• (57 million Chinese entrepreneurs living outside
  mainland with 2-3 trillion US dollars which they
  will increasingly use to invest in Asia)

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Trend 3 The Service Sector
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The new service society
Manufacturing
Services
Farming
1900
50.0
1980
1960
3.5
40
1990
17
1992
2.0
This leaves 88.5
2000
10
1.5
2000
2000
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The New Service Society

• General Electric
• 1980 25 billion
• 2000 130 billion
• 2001 c450 billion
• GE can no longer prosper by selling
  manufacturing goods alone
• Jack Welch (Chief Exec)

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The New Service Society

• 80 of GE profits now come from services as
  opposed to 16.4 in 1980
• For years it sold CAT scanners to hospitals
• In 1995 it won a contract to service them all and
  those of its competitors

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Trend 4 The Changing shape of work
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Changing shape of work

• Four clusters
• Few fulltime
• Project work
• Part-time
• Self employed

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From Big to Small

• 90 of new jobs are in companies with under 50
  people
• John Naisbitt
• Mega trends

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From Big to Small

• By the year 2020 the largest employer in the
  developed world will be self
• Nicholas Negroponte
• Being Digital

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From big to small

• Franchising
• 250 billion in US
• 20,000 McDonalds
• Networking
• 20 billion in Japan
• Amway 2.5 million

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From big to small

• The innovative entrepreneur will find
  opportunities to dovetail a small business into a
  large corporation
• Cakes at Somerfield
• The school lunches

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From big to small

• The trend towards
• personalised scale
• The move to harness the
• benefits of economies of
• scale to meet the needs
• of the individual consumer
• e.g. Levi jeans (body size, colour, style etc.)

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The Knowledge Economy

• The locus of control
• The industrial economy had a boss/worker balance
• The knowledge economy thrives on those who work
  independently.
• Why employ a worker and a boss when a man can
  work independently?

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The Knowledge Economy

• We will not apply for jobs we will invent them.
• We will work from home and create a career

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The Knowledge Economy

• The key will be to reinvent yourself and your
  career throughout your working lifetime

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Your home.Your everything

• Your home will be your new
• learning centre, leisure centre,
• Entertainment centre and work centre

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Something to Ponder

• What are the social implications ?
• Permanent job insecurity
• Insularity of single
• workplace/home
• How should schools prepare
• children for it?

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Trend 4 The Age of Leisure
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The new age of leisure

• In an old manufacturing 45 hour week we would
  work 9000 hours in a 40 year career
• In an EU 35 hour week
• we would work 7000
• hours
• How will we use these
• extra 2000 hours?

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The new age of leisure

• There will be 2 billion tourists by 2000.
• Britain already attracts 23 million visitors
• (France 56 million Orlando 34 million)
• How important is it to
• prepare children to use
• leisure time wisely?

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Psychological Implications

• Stress can be the perception of being unable to
  cope with too much or too little in ones life
• The breaking down of
• the Protestant work ethic
• How vital is PE, Music and Art?

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Trend 5 Women in leadership
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Women in leadership

• USA In 1980s of 22 million new jobs, two
  thirds taken by women
• JAPAN Nearly all currency traders are women
• HONG KONG One in five management jobs
• BRITAIN Anita Roddick and The Bodyshop set the
  new business ethic

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Women in leadership

• Key Reasons
• The rise of the equal opportunities agenda
• The skills of the knowledge economy are
  interpersonal in nature

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Trend 6 Greater Democracy
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The soul of the 21st Century

• For the first time in history more people live
  under governments of their own choosing than
  under dictatorships

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The soul of the 21st Century

• The victims (of September 11th) represent the
  world I worked hard to build, a world of
  expanding freedom, opportunity and citizen
  responsibility a world of growth in diversity and
  in the bonds of community
• Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture
  Dec 2001

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The view of the terrorists

• The terrorists thought that the differences they
  have with us were all that mattered and anyone
  who did not share it were a legitimate target
• Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001

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The view of true Democracy

• Most of us believe that our differences are
  important and make our lives interesting but that
  our common humanity matters more
• Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001

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The struggle for the soul

• The clash between these two views more than any
  other single issue , will define the shape and
  the soul of this new century
• Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001

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Poverty and Social Cohesion

• We have seen how abject poverty accelerates
  conflict, how it recruits for terrorists and
  those who incite ethnic and religious hatred, how
  it fuels a violent rejection of the economic and
  social order on which our future depends
• Bill Clinton Warwick University Dec 2000

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The White Paper 1998

• Our goal is a society in which everyone is well
  educated Britains economic prosperity and
  social cohesion both depend on achieving that
  goal
• Excellence for all 1998
• White Paper on education (p10 para10)

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The New Agenda

• Curriculum 2000 sees Citizenship and Politics in
  the curriculum
• Drive for schools councils

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The Burdens

• Problems are now global and require global
  solutions
• Poverty
• Environment
• Health esp.AIDS
• Hi-tech terrorism
• Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001

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The growing underclass

• 19 million unemployed in affluent Europe.
• 60 in downtown areas of some American cities.
• Ethnic minorities at risk where no city
  manufacturing jobs exist.

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Section 3Where do we go from here?
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What schools do we need?

• In the light of these trends how and what do you
  think a 21st century
• school should
• be teaching?

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Schools or the web?

• Palmtops now hold over 1,000 books
• Harvard and Stanford university are after the
  world market on education
• They have the whole maths curriculum on the web
  NOW

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Information and Communications Technology

• Schools are not the sole channel of knowledge
• Michael Wills (Government Minister)
• BETT exhibition London - January 2000

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Information and Communications Technology

• .a pick and mix education with technology as
  the prime facilitator
• Comment from lead article in
• Information and Technology Journal

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Distance Learning in practice

• Schools in West Scotland
• Morning in school
• Afternoon at home
• distance learning

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Technology The truth

• Technology is simply
• the digital plumbing.
• In and of itself it
• is not the answer
• nor is it the future
• The industrial revolution
• spurned a new form of education

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4 keys to the Future

• My own thoughts on areas we need to address in
  education nationally and locally here at The
  Wyche to prepare children for the future

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A Glimpse into the future1Creative Thinking

• Ability to create new not just regurgitate and
  memorise the old (knowledge based)
• Therefore Creativity and Lateral Thinking are key
  development areas
• We can analyse the past but we can create the
  future

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A Glimpse into the future1 Creative Thinking

• Swtach
• A watch for a lifetime or as a fashion accessory
• Haagan-Daz
• Ice cream from child to adult

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A Glimpse into the future2 Independent Learning

• Children in charge of their own learning
• The locus of control
• If the teacher leaves
• the room does
• the learning continue?

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A Glimpse into the future2 Learning Styles

• The key role of education is to teach children
  how to learn not what to learn

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A Glimpse into the future3 Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional literacy Goldman 80 0f what we use
  in the real world is emotional literacy. 20 is
  academic intelligence
• Emotional Intelligence and number fans

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A Glimpse into the future4 Change is here to stay

• The only thing that will never change is the
  fact that there will always be change.
• (Anon.)

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A Glimpse into the future4 Change is here to stay

• It is not the strongest species that will
  survive nor the most intelligent but those that
  can adapt to change
• Charles Darwin

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A Glimpse into the future4 Six key skills
required by Industry

• Self Confidence
• Communication skills
• Work in teams
• Evaluate Information
• Personal/Time management skills
• Ability to cope with and (better still) create
  change
• (Survey undertaken in 2002)

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A Glimpse into the future4The Learned or the
Learner?

• In times of change, learners inherit the earth,
  while the learned find themselves beautifully
  equipped to deal with a world that no longer
  exists

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Presentation CompleteWell Done for staying with
it

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