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Organisations in the modern world
Schools• 1960s
– My Primary 208– My Grammar 649
• 2012– Primaries >1000– Secondaries >2000
• Businesses 1960s– Major Employers
• Businesses 2012– SMEs– Freelance– Self-employed
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“Education has never had really effective links between research and practice. Education research is the great unreformed part of the system. Too little has an impact on children's learning, and too few teachers use research evidence to inform their teaching.”Estelle Morris, The Guardian, July 2011.
Plato
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
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Margaret Mead
“We must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.”
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The Assumptions
• A Pupil is in a class• With a teacher• Doing a Lesson• In a subject• For a Qualification• In a school• In a Community
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Examples: Education and Evidence
• Learning a foreign Language• Learning a text• Switching Tasks• Concentration
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Let me tell you a story....
First day at school...Parental learning contract
Example
On Paper Electronically
HistoryHomework
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HistoryHomework
Assessed asHistory
Assessed asHistory
Assessed asEnglish
IT is both..
• A cause of change– Social, economic, political
• A means of effecting change– New processes, virtual organisations, integrated supply
chains, work redesign..
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So which is it?
LearningLearning
TechnologyTechnology
VLEsVLEsWikisWikisBlogsBlogsPodcastsPodcastsElectronic WhiteboardsElectronic Whiteboards
LearningLearningTechnologyTechnology
A Vygotskian/Steiner/A Vygotskian/Steiner/Montessori/choose a guru/Montessori/choose a guru/ Learning platformLearning platform
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So the Real Impact of IT is...
• Blurring boundaries...
• Changing Scale
• Changing Scope
• Flexibility and Agility
• Integration...
• Personalisation• New roles• New Skills and
competencies
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Remember…
“It takes a village to educate a child”
A hypothesis?
• Learning always has been and always will be a personalised experience
• It is the organisation of education that has been impersonal
• The impediment has been economic scaleability• Technology is making personalisation achievable at
scale
The art and craft of the teacher has been to balance the needs of the learner and the system
What does this mean for schools?
• IT cannot be justified on pedagogical gains alone
• Schools and communities
• Rethinking the Teaching Professions
• Rethinking Curriculum• Rethinking Assessment• Rethinking Inspection
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The Changing Pattern of EducationThe Changing Pattern of Education
Traditional Phases
Education TrainingWork Retirement
Lifelong LearningEducation
Training
Work
Retirement
Community Learning Networks
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CommunitySchools
And
Colleges
Libraries
Cultural
centres
Leisure
Centres
Home
Office
Schools
And
Colleges
As the hubs
Of Connected
Learning
Communities
NETWORK
5 Levels of Transformation
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Extent of benefits
Degree of
Transformation
Local exploitation
Scope Redefinition
Network Redesign
Process Redesign
Internal IntegrationEvolutionary
RevolutionaryInternal
External
Source: MIT
Shamrock Organisation
Customer
CoreOrganisation
Contracted Fringe
Part-timeHelp
Source: Charles Handy
The Virtual Dimension
• iTunes U• TED• BBC Podcasts• …
School Networks
School 1
School 5
School 4School 3
School 2
ScienceFacilities
SportsFacilities
HumanitiesResources
ArtsFacilities
Language Lab
CommunityFacilities
CPDFacilities
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The Inherent Tension
Transmitting the best from generation to generation
Vs
Preparing for the Future
Vision and Values for the Systems of Learning• Filling the empty mind
And/or
• Lighting a fire
Raymond Williams
• Education for..–Understanding–Adapting to change–Authorship of change
Schools beyond Level 2…• Artist in non residence• CPD in staff room linked to HE• SAELN• E-twinning• E-homework/support• Automated MCQs• E-Portfolios• SMS reminders• …
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So, my challenge..
• How would teachers/schools describe the processes?• Level 3 and 4 schools?• “Shamrock” schools• Maximising resources to prime purposes– Schools as Action Learning Hubs
• Which metrics to focus on?• Ruthless automation of admin• Focus on time budget• Beyond school boundaries
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School Governance
Head of School
Head of Teaching and
Learning
Head ofCommunity
Head of Assessment
Head ofResources
Head ofStaff
Development
Learning as a Team Activity
Complex multidisciplinaryComplex multidisciplinaryProblem solving teamsProblem solving teams
Rather than gifted Rather than gifted individualsindividuals
What subject is this?What subject is this?“ “ If we create a GM rice that If we create a GM rice that
is enriched with Vitamin Ais enriched with Vitamin A we could reduce blindness in we could reduce blindness in
the developing world. Can the developing world. Can the West impose this the West impose this technology for their own technology for their own good?”good?”
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For Schools to be Learning Organisations…Teacher as lifelong learnerTeaching roles increasingly diverseLearning as a social experienceTeaching as a research-based professionTeaching and Learning team basedRich assessment systems for teachers and learnersPersonalised curriculum for teachers and learnersFocus on social inclusionGlobalisation/ localisation of learning
Thank You!
• Twitter: @chris_yapp• Email:
[email protected]• Skype: cgyapp
• Blogs:• BCS• http://www.bcs.org/content/conBlog/20
• National Education Trust
• http://www.nationaleducationtrust.net/ArticlesPolicyDebate_SISL_000.php
• Long Finance• http://www.longfinance.net/long-
finance-blogs/the-pamphleteers.html
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