Slides to set the context for discussions relating to the future vision for teaching and learning and building new schools.

1. building schools for the future bsf

2. There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak…

3. Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred- year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees.

4. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears.

5. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens

6. Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic.

7. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls… every place Rip goes just baffles him

8. But when he finally walks into a classroom , the old man knows exactly where he is.

9. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1908 . Only now the blackboards are white."

10. circa. 1908

11. circa. 1948

12. circa. 2008

13. How do you design a school for the future when you can’t predict tomorrow?

18. The 5% of the population in China

19. of the UK

20. 7%

21. They have more gifted & talented students, than we have students

27. UK

28. It is estimated that

32. According to former US Secretary of Education Richard Riley…

38. In the UK, 98% of 12 year-olds want “ to do well at school ”

39. And yet, only 38% look forward to going to school.

40. According to BBC News, a new blog is created every second .

44. 1,400,000 UK pupils have their own web page.

53. It is estimated that a week’s worth of The Times…

59. For students starting a three-year university degree, this means that . . .

60. half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by the end of their studies.

62. 7 out of 10 teenagers have a handheld games machine

63. 9 out of 10 teenagers have a home computer , a mobile phone and a games console

64. 84% of young people play computer games at least once a fortnight

65. 72% of teachers never play computer games

68. £500

70. Change is the law of life. And those who look to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F Kennedy

71. flexible classrooms technology

75. extending learning spaces

79. collaboration meeting preparation

84. transforming spaces

87. outside inside outdoor learning

92. Credits: Karl Fisch www.thefischbowl.blogspot.com Scott McLeod www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org Jeff Brenman www.apolloideas.com Ray Fleming Microsoft Matt Horne www.esltechnology.com www.designshare.com School Financial Management – October 2008 www.teachingexpertise.com