I am speaking at the LT 2008 conference on the topic in the header of this blog? We are required to submit a paper and were given the chance to write blogs etc. I have decided I will write a number of blog posts about my musings on this topic. George Siemens and Nancy White are the keynote speakers. The theme is Learning Connections.
My question that I want to explore in the presentation is given that policy settings are beginning to articulate the concepts of personalised learning, innovation and creativity then why is learning itself still largely based on an industrialised model of compliant, controlled and standards based education. The learner is expected to be moulded by the system, instead of the system responding to the learner.
‘The succesful implementation of technology to support transformation involves understanding and overcoming technical, organisational, pedgagogical, and socio-cultural challenges’ says the Emerging Technologies for Learning Report by Futurelab and I would add political challenges.
There are three key assertions that I will pursue in my presentation.
1. That National Policy settings in Australia are shifting towards a more open, collaborative, and creative learning experience.
2. That the world in which our digital kids have grown is a hyperconnected world and one in which risk taking and risk sharing is an element of learning itself.
3. Our formal education systems have reactive rather than proactive policy settings in using technologies to innovate and transform current learning practice into 21st Century learning.
Until my next post!!
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