What's going to happen to the teaching profession over the next decade? Will technology supplant the human at the front of the room? This session explores some of those future scenarios; and then provides four future-proofing strategies for sustaining the present great work in the profession.

1. The Future Of
Teaching
Tony Ryan
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2. What’s coming up in
education?
What to do about it!

3. It’s not necessarily about the technology. It’s
about the humanity and the learning!
Some core points about
the future of teaching:
If you can be replaced by a robot, then
you need to be!
Prediction is fraught with dilemma. Instead,
we must develop preferable scenarios; and
then place them into sustained action.

4. What could occur
up ahead?
Techno-dystopia?
Techno-utopia?
But it always needs to be about
people with people
Not necessarily either

5. Most issues are
sensationalised
The better things get, the worse
people think they are
The future will be
full of amazing new
advances
Some recent perspectives on the future

6. Learning 1.0. Didactic
instruction; front and centre;
sage on the stage
Learning 2.0. Two-way
interactive; co-creative; tech
clearly advances the learning
Learning 3.0. One-on-one;
ubiquitious immersive student-
centred authentic inquiry
Learning 4.0. Transformational;
global brain/mind interfaces;
telepathic learning experiences
1820s - 1990s? 1980’s - 2020?
2000 - 2030? 2015 - 2040s?

8. Future-proofing in your
personal life??
Physical fitness
Financial back-up
Great relationships
Lifelong learning

9. Future-proofing in
education??
Respect your own welfare
Curate knowledge
Focus on the learning
Think differently

10. Respect your
own welfare

11. Apply the Wardrobe Principle - if
you take on something new, then
get rid of something else
Use 2013 thinking to resolve 2013
issues eg crowdsource for resources
Find the fabled 50:50 balance between
Self and Others
Focus on solutions

12. PROBLEMS SOLUTIONS
I can’t keep up with new technologies Find a coach; set up your peer network
We don’t get enough professional
development
Tap into your staff’s expertise
We don’t have enough tech resources
Focus on the learning first; and then
use the tech you have
The students know more
than me
Rethink the way you can utilise their
skills in your lessons
This tech stuff isn’t for me Wake Up
Focus On Solutions

13. “..the 21st century
is about
embracing change,
not fighting it.”
Principles of the new culture:
1. The old ways of learning are unable
to keep up with our rapidly changing
world.
2. New media forms are making peer-
to-peer learning easier and more
natural.

14. A strong hint: Your best resource in your school is each
other.
The great schools focus equally on Pedagogy
and Andragogy (adult learning).
The core focus: To reframe the Mental Models we hold
as teachers. It’s not just a ‘classroom’ any more; it’s
everywhere anytime.

15. A 10 year-old?
A 70 year-old?
Whoever knows their stuff...
And then.... do it regularly! Make
it a part of your life (without
overdoing it)
Questions for coaching:
1.What are you doing right now?
2.What else could you do?
3.What will you do?
4. How and when will you do it?
5. How will you keep it going?
Adapted from “The Leadership Coaching Guide”
Get a tech coach

16. Curate
knowledge
Respect your
own welfare

17. Curating your students’ learning
Curating your own learning
Curation is done with two groups in your
professional work as teachers:
Curation: Clarifying the core essence of
what needs to be learned

18. Online eg social media;
online readers;
worthwhile mobile apps
Real life eg regular get-
togethers with former peers;
coaching with another staff
member
How do you ‘curate’ what you need to know when
using your Learning Network?

19. Use an online reader to curate
what you want to find out

20. feedly bloglovin
digg pinterest
Other options

22. Curate
knowledge
Focus on
their
learning
Respect
your own
welfare

23. 23
1993 Assignments - Use a large
piece of shiny cardboard; cut out
some magazine photos; copy text
from an encyclopedia (and yet,
little idea of context)
2013 Assessment Tasks-
Construct a wiki; steal images
from google; plagiarise from a
Cheat Site (and yet, little idea of
context)
Does technology advance the
intellectual rigour!! If not, then
maybe it’s not worth it.

24. Here’s an example:
Wordle - a good visual organiser... but does it encourage thinking?

25. Drop your written article into wordle; and you can determine what key words
you use in your writing. Now you’re using wordle to generate some thinking.

26. We’re moving from knowledge consumption to knowledge
co-creation eg setting an assessment task that involves the
creation of worthwhile apps

27. Using the best of both worlds....!

28. 6 Blended Learning models

29. Rethinking what it means to have a ‘classroom’

30. Will degrees
maintain their
credibility in
the years
ahead?

31. The use of wearable technology in learning.The concept of a
‘global teacher’ is getting closer

32. Brain-Computer
Interfaces in everyday
teaching?

33. Facilitating learning just by thinking?

34. User interaction data
Inferred student data

35. Curate
knowledge
Focus on
their learning
Think
differently
Respect your
own welfare

36. The square is very 20th Century!

37. In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950,
every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep
in horse manure.
The world will be different up ahead.Think
differently.

38. Could schools think like this?

39. Rename
your
classrooms

40. Plan for The
Future

41. “For decades, technology
encouraged people to
squander their time and
intellect as passive
consumers. Today, tech
has finally caught up with
human potential.” (Clay
Shirky)
Tap into your
school’s
‘cognitive
surplus’

42. On a rating of 1 to 10, how inspiring do
you think education will be in the next
10 years?
On a rating of 1 to 10, how inspiring do
you think your own life will be in the
next 10 years?

44. The Future Of
Teaching
Tony Ryan
How can we ‘predict’ the
future of teaching?
By creating it!