World Forum Innovation Exchange Slides Simon Mauger 05.01.2010
1. Learning and Technology World Forum Innovation Exchange Exchange 2 - Preparing for the Future Simon Mauger Programme Director, NIACE
2. Futures Thinking and Horizon Scanning in educational practice and lifelong learning
3. Horizon scanning is…… Looking ahead – beyond usual timescales Looking across – beyond usual sources Looking back – Re-examing assumptions beyond a ‘single expected future’ to a ‘range of possible futures’ to consider implications for today’s decisions and directions … . and the educational point is - resilience and adaptability
4. ‘ Thinking about the future of lifelong learning - what are the changes you foresee in physical learning environments, technologies and people's behaviour?’ Let the ‘future’ be 2025
5. With about 200 people - Sector Post-compulsory Education 46 % Culture & Arts 10 % Architecture & Planning 6 % Schools 1 % Business & Technology Entrepreneurs 6 % Government & Regional Agencies 7 % Learner Organisations 8 % Other 15 % Media 2 %
6. Your particular expertise/interest % Arts/Culture 16 % Architecture 9 % Business Development 9 % Business Management 11 % Community Development 19 % Design 6 % Economics 2 % Education Delivery 36 % Education Policy 41 % Media Production 3 % Media Policy 4 % Politics 8 % Technology 18 % Other 14 %
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11. TOP 25 key-words in Phase 1 contributions = What respondents are thinking about spontaneously (excluded question words: learning, environment, people, technology) Presence of issue in all received comments
12. Relations between key words in phase 1 material (excluded question words: learning, environment, people, technology) Numbers between boxes indicate amount of connections
13. All collected Ideas were analysed in terms of ’gathering’ into Categories Design Environment Inequality Lifelong Mobility Quality Resourcesn Behaviour Capability Change Services Cost Society Teaching Technology Unknown
20. The nature of change : About new technological development in itself or the influence on or creation of ‘behaviours’? Amplifying existing behaviour - ‘status quo +’ Fundamentally altering existing behaviour - ‘disruptive’
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24. And we wrote a series of scenario ‘vignettes’ to suggest ‘narratives’ around the uncertainties, possibilities and viewpoints.
Which I believe has not helped our thinking in relation to technology and change and its influence on how we learn, often seeing technology as simply gearing up existing practice: we have, for a whole raft of other reasons too, tended to think that it is all about the technology as opposed to the nature of its adoption - look at SMS.