TEACHING AND LEARNINGWHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

Teaching Assistant’s TrainingWyche CE School

Section 1:Time To Think

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)

Key Questions

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

schools?

An IntroductionShould education stay the same or should it change?

Education and the Future

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

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

Our Education System

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

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

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

Section 2:What will the

Future Look Like?

If we can understand the major social and economic trends then we

can plan a future for our children

Trend 1: The Technological Revolution

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”

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

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.

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.

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?

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 yesterday’s skills”

Tony Blair: Net Year 1998

Keyboard Skills1980 A negative response to teaching keyboard skills

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

Trend 2: The One world economy

A One World Economy

“Everyone has access to the best that the world has to offer.”

Gordon Dryden

A One World EconomyThere are now few

economic bordersEach 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

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)

Trend 3: The Service Sector

Manufacturing1900 50.0%1980 3.5%1992 2.0%2000 1.5%

Farming

1960 40%1990 17%2000 10% 2000

This leaves88.5%

Services

The new service society

The New Service SocietyGeneral Electric 1980 $25 billion 2000 $130 billion 2001 $c450 billion

“GE can no longer prosper by selling manufacturing goods alone” Jack Welch (Chief Exec)

The New Service Society80% of GE profits now come from services as opposed to 16.4% in 1980

For years it sold CAT scanners to hospitalsIn 1995 it won a contract to service them all and those of its competitors

Trend 4: The Changing shape of work

Changing shape of work

Four clusters:

Few fulltime Project work Part-time Self employed

From Big to Small

“90% of new jobs are in companies with under 50 people”

John NaisbittMega trends

From Big to Small

“By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be self”

Nicholas NegroponteBeing Digital

From big to smallFranchising

$250 billion in US 20,000 McDonalds

Networking $20 billion in Japan:

Amway 2.5 million

From big to small

The innovative entrepreneur will find opportunities to dovetail a small business into a large corporation

Cakes at SomerfieldThe school lunches

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 consumere.g. Levi jeans (body size, colour, style etc.)

The Knowledge EconomyThe 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?

The Knowledge Economy

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

The Knowledge Economy

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

Your home….Your everything

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

Something to Ponder

What are the social implications ?

Permanent job insecurityInsularity of single workplace/home

How should schools prepare children for it?

Trend 4: The Age of Leisure

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?

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?

Psychological Implications

“Stress can be the perception of being unable to cope with too much or too little in one’s life”

The breaking down of the “Protestant work ethic”

How vital is PE, Music and Art?

Trend 5: Women in leadership

Women in leadership USA: In 1980’s 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

Women in leadership

Key Reasons

The rise of the equal opportunities agenda

The skills of the knowledge economy are interpersonal in nature

Trend 6: Greater Democracy

The soul of the 21st Century

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

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

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

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

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

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

The White Paper 1998

“Our goal is a society in which everyone is well educated …… Britain’s economic prosperity and social cohesion both depend on achieving that goal”

“Excellence for all” 1998 White Paper on education (p10 para10)

The New Agenda

Curriculum 2000 sees Citizenship and Politics in the curriculum

Drive for school’s councils

The Burdens

Problems are now global and require global solutionsPovertyEnvironmentHealth esp.AIDSHi-tech terrorism

Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001

The growing underclass19 million unemployed

in affluent Europe.60% in downtown areas

of some American cities.

Ethnic minorities at risk where no city manufacturing jobs exist.

Section 3:Where do we go from here?

What schools do we need?

In the light of these trends how and what do you think a 21st century

school should

be teaching?

Schools or the web?Palmtops now hold

over 1,000 booksHarvard and Stanford

university are after the world market on education

They have the whole maths curriculum on the web NOW

Information and Communications Technology

“Schools are not the sole channel of knowledge”

Michael Wills (Government Minister)

BETT exhibition London - January 2000

Information and Communications Technology

“….a pick and mix education with technology as the prime facilitator”

Comment from lead article in

“Information and Technology Journal”

Distance Learning in practice

Schools in West Scotland Morning in school Afternoon at home

distance learning

Technology – The truth

Technology is simply

the digital plumbing. In and of itself it

is not the answer

nor is it the futureThe industrial revolution

spurned a new form of education

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

A Glimpse into the future:1Creative 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”

A Glimpse into the future:1 Creative Thinking

Swtach

A watch for a lifetime or as a fashion accessory

Haagan-Daz

Ice cream: from child to adult

A Glimpse into the future:2 Independent Learning

Children in charge of their own learning

The locus of control

If the teacher leaves the room does the learning continue?

A Glimpse into the future:2 Learning Styles

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

A Glimpse into the future:3 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

A Glimpse into the future:4 Change is here to stay

“The only thing that will never change is the fact that there will always be change.”

(Anon.)

A Glimpse into the future:4 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

A Glimpse into the future:4 Six key skills required by Industry

Self ConfidenceCommunication skillsWork in teamsEvaluate InformationPersonal/Time management skillsAbility to cope with and (better still)

create change(Survey undertaken in 2002)

A Glimpse into the future:4The 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”

Presentation CompleteWell Done for staying with it

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