Teachers, Educational Change, Creativity and Technology

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Teachers, Educational Change, Creativity and
Technology

• Keri Facer, John Morgan, Dan Sutch - Futurelab
• Creativity Futures Forum 27.09.06

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Overview

• Futurelabs research
• Political demand for teachers as designers of
  educational futures
• Cultural social resources
• Applying and exploring technology
• Whats missing?

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Futurelabs research

• Enquiring Minds (Microsoft) Teaching with Games
  (EA)
• How do we reconfigure curriculum and pedagogy to
  enable children to set their own research,
  invention and learning agendas?
• What new approaches to pedagogy required to
  exploit the potential of computer games for
  learning?
• 25 RD projects
• developing new resources, teaching and learning
  approaches and curricula with teachers, children,
  creative and technical communities
• Review of Teachers Learning with Digital
  Technologies (Fisher, Loveless, Higgins)
• Review of Creativity and Digital Technologies
  (Loveless)

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Teachers as educational designers and innovators

• Teachers as curriculum designers
• QCA Aims/ Big Curriculum/The children we want
  (1000 flowers blooming?)
• Educators rethinking social institutions and
  relationships
• The nature of schooling the relationship
  between school and communities
• Educators building learning networks and pathways
• Personalisation Responsive, critical and
  reflective constructing programmes for
  individual learners in collaboration
• The adaptive state schools as learning
  organisations

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One angle on the educational design process

• Goodson (2001) Sheehy (1981) processes of
  educational change
• Supporting teachers to
• imagine alternatives/ gather new impressions
• let go of certainties/ old identities
• make creative interventions/ take risks
• revise/ evaluate/ reflect and integrate
• rest and reward/ dormancy
• What tools and resources will teachers and
• schools need to support these processes?

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Social, personal and cultural resources
Imagining alternatives/ let go of certainties
Crisis?
Knowledges
Time/ Space
Permission
Knowledge Building
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Social, personal and cultural resources
Playfulness/ Looking differently at the world 1
Imagining alternatives/ let go of certainties
Crisis?
Knowledges
Time/ Space
Permission
Knowledge Building
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The role of digital technology?
Playfulness/ Looking differently at the world 2
Imagining alternatives / lose certainties
Crisis?
Knowledges
Information Comms Techs Web/ Teachers
TV Archives
Time/ Space
Permission
Knowledge Building
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The role of digital technology?
Social Software
Playfulness/ Looking differently at the world
Imagining alternatives/ lose certainties
Crisis?
Social Software
Knowledges
Information Comms Techs Web/ Teachers
TV Archives
Time/ Space
Permission
Social Software
Knowledge Building
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The role of digital technology?
Social Software
Playfulness/ Looking differently at the world 1
2 3
Reflection Tools Context A/V
Social Software
Information Comms Techs Web/ Teachers
TV Archives
Social Software
Reflection Tools Context A/V
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The role of digital technology?
Social Software
Playfulness/ Looking differently at the world 1
2 3
Reflection Tools Context A/V
Social Software
Information Comms Techs Web/ Teachers
TV Archives
Social Software
Reflection Tools Context A/V
Construction Tools 2 3 4
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Collaborative construction tools

• Flikr Photographs http//www.flickr.com/ and in
  this Yahoo Directory there are many more
  http//dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping
  _and_Services/Communication_and_Information_Manage
  ment/Internet_and_World_Wide_Web/Personal_Informat
  ion_Management/Photo_Albums/
• Machinima Making movies from screen-saved files
  http//www.machinima.org/ and http//www.machinima
  .com
• Collaborative writing The Writely collaborative
  wordprocessor allows just wordprocessing and
  publishing to a blog http//www.writely.com
• Broadcast Machine http//participatoryculture.org
  /broadcast/ posts videos to Blogs and allows you
  to make internet tv channels
• DTV Internet TV http//participatoryculture.org
  DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for
  internet television and video and lets users
  subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a
  video library
• VideoEgg Also allows posting video to blogs and
  websites and assists in taking some of the
  technical decisions http//www.videoegg.com/
• On-line radio Synergy.tvs Radiowaves for
  schools Http//www.radiowaves.co.uk and music
  http//www.dbass.co.uk
• Podcasting and the use of the iPod
  http//www.ipodder.org/

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Technology teacher creativity?

• Concepts (Knowledges/Information)
• Information, archives personal, collective,
  intelligent
• Collaboration Community
• Networks, social software, communication tools
• Talking Heads, Oxford Brookes VLE, EM - wikis
• Context (reflection/location)
• Personal resources, audio-visual tools
• Nottingham TLO, Bristol PDA project, Enquiring
  Minds (dig video/photos)
• Co-creation/construction
• creative tools, resources for working together
  on ideas, Create A Scape, Machinima1 Machinima 2
• Cool stuff (alternatives)
• Alternative ways of interacting with the world?

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What are we missing?

• Personal archives/information resources for
  teachers
• Wheres the teachers portfolio? The educators
  design notebook?
• Co-construction tools
• Wheres the space not just to talk together but
  to experiment together?
• Conceptual/Challenging inputs
• What are the most effective techniques for
  unlearning whats the role of digital
  technologies in this? Is there one?
• Anything else?

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• What other digital resources
• What other tools
• What other approaches to CPD/ITTE
• .do we need to support teachers as designers of
  educational futures?
• Futurelab Call for Ideas Jan/March 2007
• www.futurelab.org.uk/ ideas
• Keri.Facer_at_futurelab.org.uk
• Dan.Sutch_at_futurelab.org.uk

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