This document discusses how schools must change to prepare students for the future. It notes that the world is changing rapidly in areas like technology, jobs, and skills needed. Schools need to focus on developing skills like problem solving, critical thinking, and digital literacy to help students cope with constant change. The future may include new jobs like robot counselors and teachers need to understand shifting student expectations around personalized learning and being connected through technology. Schools are challenged to promote student agency, connectedness, and apply learning in real-world contexts to prepare them for an unknown future.

1. Tai Tapu School – 17 June, 2015
Preparing
learners for
their future

2. HOPES FOR OUR KIDS

3. WHAT WILL THEY NEED TO LEARN?

4. OUR CHANGING WORLD
• Our world is changing and changing rapidly.
• What must we do to prepare students for living and
working in the 21st century?
• How must our schools and teachers change to meet
these opportunities and challenges?

5. THE FUTURE…
• Food supply
• Water
• Cryogenics
• Nano-technology
• Cultural assimilation
• Human rights
• Poverty
• Religious intolerance

6. COPING WITH CHANGE
Pre-1980 1984 2000 2012
Typewriter
Colour TV
Ball point pen
Gestetner
Fax
Landline
NZ Post
Desktop computer
Photocopier
VHS recorder
Library
EFTPOS
Internet
Laptop
Mobile phone
Digital camera
YouTube
Touch
Wear
Talk
Think

7. EDUCATION IS THE POWERHOUSE
• Education is the powerhouse of modern societies
• We need highly-skilled people
• With increasingly sophisticated skills and digital
competencies

8. http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367
The surprising jobs you’ll
be doing by the 2030s

9. • Robot counsellor
• Rewilder
• Garbage designer
• Neighbourhood watch specialist
• Simplicity expert
• Healthcare navigator
• Nostalgist
• Telesurgeon
• Solar technology specialist
• Aquaponic fish farmer
http://io9.com/these-are-the-surprising-jobs-youll-be-doing-by-the-203-1577363367

10. THE DIGITAL CHALLENGE
• What must we do to prepare students for living and
working in the 21st century?
• What skills, knowledge and dispositions will they
require?

12. UBIQUITY

13. MOBILE TRENDS
• mLearning – in the
classroom and workplace
• BYOD – Bring your own
device
• “snack” learning
• Location-based
integration and
workplace training
• Cloud computing
• Rewind learning
http://www.bottomlineperformance.com/6-mobile-learning-trends-that-grew-in-2012/

14. CHALLENGE
Have we grasped how significantly
student access to technology has
changed their expectations as
learners?

16. AGENCY
• “Having choices and the
ability to act on those
choices.”
• “The power to act”
• “Sense of ownership”
• “Executing and controlling
one’s own actions”
• “Self-efficacy”
• “Personalisation”

17. STUDENT EXPECTATIONS
Washor, E and Mohkowski, C (2013) Leaving to learn
Do my teachers really know
about me and my interests and
talents?
Do I find what the school is
teaching relevant to my
interests?
Do I have opportunities to apply
what I am learning in real world
settings and contexts?
Do I feel appropriately
challenged in my learning?
Can I pursue my learning out
of the standard sequence?
Do I have sufficient time to
learn at my own pace?
Do I have real choice
about what, where
and how I learn?
Do I have opportunities to
explore and make
mistakes?
Do I have opportunities to engage
deeply in my learning and to practice
the skills I need to lean?

18. CHALLENGES
• Do our learners have to adapt to
our way of doing things, or do
we adapt to theirs?
• Are we focused on delivery – or
learning experience?

20. • “Having a sense of being a part of
something that is bigger than ones
self”
• It’s not about the technology - it’s all
about being connected. Devices
and gadgets are less important than
the ability to be connected.
• Connectedness is the capacity to
benefit from connectivity for
personal, social, work or economic
purposes
• This is having an impact on all areas
of human activity
CONNECTEDNESS

22. CHALLENGES
• In what ways do we promote the
notion of connectedness for
our students?
• What implcations are there for
global participation,
cybercitizentship, network
literacy?

23. Practices
Principles
Moral
purpose
WHY?
HOW?
WHAT?
Derived from values/beliefs.
Captured in policy statements.
What you stand for. Mutually
agreed and owned by the
school community. Shared
beliefs/values. Made explicit in
mission/vision statement.
Lived expression of your values.

27. Practices
Principles
Moral
purpose
WHY?
HOW?
WHAT?
Derived from values/beliefs.
Captured in policy statements.
What you stand for. Mutually
agreed and owned by the
school community. Shared
beliefs/values. Made explicit in
mission/vision statement.
Lived expression of your values.

30. Derek Wenmoth
Email: derek@core-ed.org
Blog: http://blog.core-ed.org/derek
Skype: <dwenmoth>