Tapping Your Inner Futurist The Future of Learning Garry Golden Forward Elements
Warm up Foresight 101 Future of Learning Bringing it Home Futurist, Skeptic or Enabler
College Education Careers Service Life 2004-2014 vs 2015-2025
Things that will not go away Human Creativity; Face-to-Face; Reading for Pleasure; Books; Classrooms
LUNCH In the News
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
From Data to Wisdom Early Days of Data Literate Society Social Data Health & Wellness Data Learning & Work Performance Data
The end of high stakes testing The Most Optimistic Vision. Today s World: Data = High-stakes Testing
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
. 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
Closing the Word Gap & Crossing the Creepy Line: Aligning Policy, Family Culture and Technology
What s Ahead: Creepy or Compelling?
Outputs Mission: Access & Summative Testing Outcomes Mission: Behavior Change & Mastery of Skills
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: www.thinkmelon.com/ True False
Finding my inner Futurist?
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Every day I make an effort to go toward what I don't understand. Yo-Yo Ma
Future of Education : Four Futures Thinking Disciplined / Constrained Transformed? Continued Growth Decline / Collapse * Jim Dator, University of Hawaii
Warm up Foresight 101 Future of Learning Bringing it Home Futurist, Skeptic or Enabler
Future of Learning Adaptive Learning Learning Graph Mindfulness The Overwhelmed Student
How the Web is Changing Social Norms & Culture Anonymous Web 1995. to a more Social Web 2008
Assumption: The web is becoming a platform for driving behavior change. Everyone knows I m working on some personal growth issues
What is the new assumption for learning in networked era? Online vs Offline Software-Guided or not
The vision of adaptive learning experiences:
Designed to Help Learners Find The Flow
Adaptive Learning Platforms: Teacher Perspective
Preparing Concordia for Age of Adaptive Learning Exploratory Phase: 2015-2018 Assess Platforms, Tools & Content Integration Understand Student & Teacher Adoption Dynamics Build Roadmap & Monitor Case Studies for Distance & In-class
Future of Learning Adaptive Learning Learning Graph Mindfulness The Overwhelmed Student
How do we connect lifelong learning experiences? Trend: Increase in non-traditional forms of data
Graph-Database = Connections are Most Important Entity (Node) Relationship Entity (Node) Relationship Relationship Relationship Entity (Node)
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
Garry s Professional-Social Graph
Garry s Connections via Lisa Bodell
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
Future of Learning Adaptive Learning Learning Graph Mindfulness The Overwhelmed Student
Assumption: The Overwhelmed Student becomes a public health issue By 2020, students will seek non-traditional solutions to overcome mental wellness challenges
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)
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
Research Case for Mindfulness, Contemplation & Meditation
Research Case for Mindfulness, Contemplation & Meditation
March 23, 2017 Concordia provides neuro hardware and mindfulness training to parents, teachers and students Voted America s Most Focused Student culture Source: http://www.thinkmelon.com/
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I don t like the future
Every day I make an effort to move toward what I don t understand. Yo-Yo Ma
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
Challenge Build a Shared List: Sources of Provocation & Inspiration Theme: Design for Behavior Change
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
Challenge Take Courses on Things You Do Not Understand
Readiness Trends & Issues Mapped Against Readiness & Urgency Ready Somewhat Ready Not Ready Not Urgent Important Urgency Urgent Critical
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
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
Garry Golden garrygolden@gmail.com Two R s
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