The Future of Learning

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1 Tapping Your Inner Futurist The Future of Learning Garry Golden Forward Elements

2 Warm up Foresight 101 Future of Learning Bringing it Home Futurist, Skeptic or Enabler

3 College Education Careers Service Life vs

4 Things that will not go away Human Creativity; Face-to-Face; Reading for Pleasure; Books; Classrooms

5 LUNCH In the News

6 In 2015 the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case filed by James Lee to allow him to erase social media data created before his 25th birthday. The case will set up rights to deleting digital content. True False

7 From Data to Wisdom Early Days of Data Literate Society Social Data Health & Wellness Data Learning & Work Performance Data

8 The end of high stakes testing The Most Optimistic Vision. Today s World: Data = High-stakes Testing

9 Important Questions, Policies & Investments : How will we define data literacy for students, parents, teachers and policy-setting leadership? Student Rights as we Measure More, Not All Opt-out Opt-in OYOD (Own Your Own Data) Investing in Adaptive Learning Systems for Teacher Training and Curriculum Connections

10 . Providence, RI has launched a campaign to close their community Word Gap. The effort includes providing families with devices that listen to the number of words children hear each day. True False

11 Closing the Word Gap & Crossing the Creepy Line: Aligning Policy, Family Culture and Technology

12 What s Ahead: Creepy or Compelling?

13 Outputs Mission: Access & Summative Testing Outcomes Mission: Behavior Change & Mastery of Skills

14 In early 2015, Palo Alto High School will launch a pilot program providing students with neuro headware for use during studying and class sessions Image Source: True False

15 Finding my inner Futurist?

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17 Every day I make an effort to go toward what I don't understand. Yo-Yo Ma

18 Future of Education : Four Futures Thinking Disciplined / Constrained Transformed? Continued Growth Decline / Collapse * Jim Dator, University of Hawaii

19 Warm up Foresight 101 Future of Learning Bringing it Home Futurist, Skeptic or Enabler

20 Future of Learning Adaptive Learning Learning Graph Mindfulness The Overwhelmed Student

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22 How the Web is Changing Social Norms & Culture Anonymous Web to a more Social Web 2008

23 Assumption: The web is becoming a platform for driving behavior change. Everyone knows I m working on some personal growth issues

24 What is the new assumption for learning in networked era? Online vs Offline Software-Guided or not

25 The vision of adaptive learning experiences:

26 Designed to Help Learners Find The Flow

27 Adaptive Learning Platforms: Teacher Perspective

28 Preparing Concordia for Age of Adaptive Learning Exploratory Phase: Assess Platforms, Tools & Content Integration Understand Student & Teacher Adoption Dynamics Build Roadmap & Monitor Case Studies for Distance & In-class

29 Future of Learning Adaptive Learning Learning Graph Mindfulness The Overwhelmed Student

30 How do we connect lifelong learning experiences? Trend: Increase in non-traditional forms of data

31 Graph-Database = Connections are Most Important Entity (Node) Relationship Entity (Node) Relationship Relationship Relationship Entity (Node)

32 Helping Learners Connected the Dots in an Age of Graph Databases Connected Data = Drives Work & Learning Experiences Link Graph Interest Graph Social Graph Health Graph??? Learning Graph A Graph Database = Relationships between Things

33 Garry s Professional-Social Graph

34 Garry s Connections via Lisa Bodell

35 Garry s Learning Graph: What I know, How I know it, What is yet to explore?! Learn more I did this (statements) Learner controlled history

36 Future of Learning Adaptive Learning Learning Graph Mindfulness The Overwhelmed Student

37 Assumption: The Overwhelmed Student becomes a public health issue By 2020, students will seek non-traditional solutions to overcome mental wellness challenges

38 Intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focus Mindfulness: State of active, open attention on the present. Observing your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad. (Psychology Today)

39 may help: The Business Case Mindfulness Notice when a decision should or could be made; See ethical challenges Increase goal awareness Gathering information and insights; Facilitate option generation More Open to Feedback & Collaboration Natalia Karelaia Jochen Reb

40 Research Case for Mindfulness, Contemplation & Meditation

41 Research Case for Mindfulness, Contemplation & Meditation

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43 March 23, 2017 Concordia provides neuro hardware and mindfulness training to parents, teachers and students Voted America s Most Focused Student culture Source:

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45 I don t like the future

46 Every day I make an effort to move toward what I don t understand. Yo-Yo Ma

47 I want to become a Futurist We need to be ahead of these trends! Sign me up!! Your Job: Socializing Ideas Start a Signals Team (Social, Technology, Environment, Economy, Politics) Create Monthly or Quarterly Programs to Share Insights

48 Challenge Build a Shared List: Sources of Provocation & Inspiration Theme: Design for Behavior Change

49 I am not convinced by this snake oil salesman Not our future. Let s get back to basics. Your Job: Show how futuristic scenarios can be wrong Challenge These Assumptions Rally Existing Partners & Stakeholders to Return to a Golden Era of Education

50 Challenge Take Courses on Things You Do Not Understand

51 Readiness Trends & Issues Mapped Against Readiness & Urgency Ready Somewhat Ready Not Ready Not Urgent Important Urgency Urgent Critical

52 Readiness Trends & Issues Mapped Against Readiness & Urgency Ready Online Delivery Badges Somewhat Ready Mindfulness Graph-based Learning Tools Adaptive Learning Not Ready Intelligent Assistants ExperienceAPI Not Urgent Important Urgent Critical Urgency

53 I want to Encourage Others Interesting stuff. No time, but I want to empower my team. Challenge: Host a Concordia University Failfaire in May 2015 Create a Campus Culture of Smart Risk-taking Lower Barriers to Pilots & Partnerships Invite your students & parents to deliver stories

54 Garry Golden Two R s

55 Questions, Comments, Challenges