Title: TEACHING AND LEARNING WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
1TEACHING AND LEARNINGWHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
- Teaching Assistants Training
- Wyche CE School
2Section 1Time To Think
3Time 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)
4Key Questions
- What is education for?
- Do we need it?
- Why have
- schools?
5An Introduction
- Should education stay the same or should it
change?
6Education 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?
7Schools 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
8Our Education System
- A Victorian knowledge based system to prepare
children for skills they need in an industrial
workplace
9Expanding 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
10The 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
11Section 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
12Trend 1 The Technological Revolution
13The 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
14The 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
15Now 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.
16Now 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.
17Changing 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?
18Information 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
19Keyboard Skills
- 1980
- A negative response to teaching keyboard skills
- 2001
- A positive response to teaching keyboard skills?
- Voice activated computers
20Trend 2 The One world economy
21A One World Economy
- Everyone has access to the best that the world
has to offer. - Gordon Dryden
22A 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
23Four 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)
24Trend 3 The Service Sector
25The 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
26The 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)
27The 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
28Trend 4 The Changing shape of work
29Changing shape of work
- Four clusters
- Few fulltime
- Project work
- Part-time
- Self employed
30From Big to Small
- 90 of new jobs are in companies with under 50
people - John Naisbitt
- Mega trends
31From Big to Small
- By the year 2020 the largest employer in the
developed world will be self - Nicholas Negroponte
- Being Digital
32From big to small
- Franchising
- 250 billion in US
- 20,000 McDonalds
- Networking
- 20 billion in Japan
- Amway 2.5 million
33From big to small
- The innovative entrepreneur will find
opportunities to dovetail a small business into a
large corporation - Cakes at Somerfield
- The school lunches
34From 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.)
35The 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?
36The Knowledge Economy
- We will not apply for jobs we will invent them.
- We will work from home and create a career
37The Knowledge Economy
- The key will be to reinvent yourself and your
career throughout your working lifetime
38Your home.Your everything
- Your home will be your new
- learning centre, leisure centre,
- Entertainment centre and work centre
39Something to Ponder
- What are the social implications ?
- Permanent job insecurity
- Insularity of single
- workplace/home
- How should schools prepare
- children for it?
40Trend 4 The Age of Leisure
41The 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?
-
42The 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?
43Psychological 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?
44Trend 5 Women in leadership
45Women 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
46Women in leadership
- Key Reasons
- The rise of the equal opportunities agenda
- The skills of the knowledge economy are
interpersonal in nature
47Trend 6 Greater Democracy
48The soul of the 21st Century
- For the first time in history more people live
under governments of their own choosing than
under dictatorships
49The 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
50The 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
51The 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
52The 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
53Poverty 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
54The 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)
55The New Agenda
- Curriculum 2000 sees Citizenship and Politics in
the curriculum - Drive for schools councils
56The Burdens
- Problems are now global and require global
solutions - Poverty
- Environment
- Health esp.AIDS
- Hi-tech terrorism
- Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001
57The 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.
58Section 3Where do we go from here?
59What schools do we need?
- In the light of these trends how and what do you
think a 21st century - school should
- be teaching?
60Schools 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
61Information and Communications Technology
- Schools are not the sole channel of knowledge
- Michael Wills (Government Minister)
- BETT exhibition London - January 2000
62Information and Communications Technology
- .a pick and mix education with technology as
the prime facilitator - Comment from lead article in
- Information and Technology Journal
63Distance Learning in practice
- Schools in West Scotland
- Morning in school
- Afternoon at home
- distance learning
64Technology 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
654 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
66A 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
67A 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
68A 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?
69A Glimpse into the future2 Learning Styles
- The key role of education is to teach children
how to learn not what to learn
70A 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
71A 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.)
72A 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
73A 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)
74A 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
75Presentation CompleteWell Done for staying with
it
- Please applaud quietly so as not to wake up those
who have fallen asleep