This is my lecture at Reykjavík Univ

1. The Learning Revolution
Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson

3. Have teaching methods not
changed over time?

4. Reykjavík University some centuries later

5. 2+ billion users are
connected to a global
network
Copyright © 2011, Ólafur

6. 93,2% of Icelanders are online
Flickr photo: Arkadyevna

8. It’s not about technology – it’s
all about cultural change

10. 2000 2010
iMac iPhone
Mac OS 9.0.4 iOS 4.0
500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB Memory 1 Ghz ARM A4 CPU, 512MB Memory
Screen - 786K pixels Screen - 614K pixels
Storage - 30GB Hard Drive Storage - 32GB Flash Drive
Source: Ars Technical Images: Apple

11. There is a fundamental shift in how
people consume content
Copyright © 2011, Ólafur Picture by Flickr user Shaggyshoo

12. Every minute, 24 hours of content is
uploaded to YouTube

13. Social
People spend 9.3
billion hours on
Facebook each
month
That’s 1,065,449 year

14. Digital
lifestyle

15. Digital Online World

16. Learning is part of this world
Digital
online
world

17. The knowledge of the world is at our
fingertips

19. Teaching methods are restricted
to the limitations of the past
Flickr: dfridge

20. Opportunity to innovate in education
is to change the attitude to learning

21. OPEN UP

22. RETHINK READING ASSIGNMENTS

23. RETHINK READING ASSIGNMENTS

24. Short clip form Jane McGonigal’s TED lecture: Gaming can make a better world
goo.gl/sVZyx

25. PUBLISH WRITING

26. RECORD EVERYTHING

27. Example from lecture recording. Full videos are in RU MySchool

28. Camtasia

29. Bamboo Wacom Pen Tablet

33. TELL STORIES

34. Short clip form 1992 documentary: The Machine That Changed the World: Giant Brains.
http://goo.gl/AQ2fV
The story starts at 8:12

35. WHAT EVER IT TAKES
WTF?

36. The web is just 20,
we are in the early
stages

37. Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson
andri@ru.is
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