Makers Go To College - Your Digital Future 2016

Makers go to college –Your Digital Future 2016
Martin Hamilton
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About Jisc
About Jisc:
› Registered charity championing the use of digital technologies in
research, education and skills
› Shared services, national deals, advice & guidance:
– Janet: reaches 18m in education & public sector + eduroam wireless roaming
– Digital capabilities programme, supporting next generation of digital leaders
– Embracing student ideas and using them to build new digital solutions
– Helping institutions to achieve efficiency gains through digital technology, e.g.
sector deals for Microsoft Office365 and Azure cloud services
› My role:
– Generating and channelling new ideas
– Building partnerships to bring them to fruition
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Next gen
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Next gen
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So much has changed:
› Anyone with children or grandchildren
under ten will know that smartphones
and tablets have had a massive
influence over the next generation
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Next gen
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› With the introduction of the new
Computing curriculum in schools,
today’s children are learning to be what
Nesta calls “young digital makers”

Next gen
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› With the introduction of the new
Computing curriculum in schools,
today’s children are learning to be what
Nesta calls “young digital makers”
› We all have memories of our own school
days, and being put off subjects by
being forced to study them
– Hopefully our children will be so captivated by
the possibilities that technology now offers that
they won’t mind being forced to learn about it!

Transition

Transition
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Transition:
› How will our children make the
transition from primary to secondary
school, college & university?

Transition
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Transition:
› When we think about HE, FE and skills -
what will the institutions of tomorrow
have to do in order to remain relevant &
continue to attract students?

Transition
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Transition:
› When we think about HE, FE and skills -
what will the institutions of tomorrow
have to do in order to remain relevant &
continue to attract students?
› The issue here is that we grew up in an
environment where knowledge and
information was scarce & often rationed

Wikipedia is Arthur Mee
for the modern era?

Wikipedia is Arthur Mee?
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Thirst for knowledge:
› If you were lucky you might have been
able to satiate your thirst for knowledge
with books from your school or public
library, or even have an encyclopaedia
set at home

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set at home
› Some of you may even be old enough to
remember getting the hard sell from
door to door encyclopaedia sellers

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set at home
› Some of you may even be old enough to
remember getting the hard sell from
door to door encyclopaedia sellers
› And that information rapidly dated – the
Arthur Mee children’s encyclopaedia I
grew up with predates the discovery of
antibiotics & human exploration of
space

Screen time

Screen time
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From toy to tutor:
› For our kids, phones & tablets
unquestionably begin as entertainment
devices
Photo CC BY Flickr user aaronpk

Screen time
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From toy to tutor:
devices
› But there will come a point in most
children’s time at or before school
where they will realise that…

Screen time
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From toy to tutor:
devices
› But there will come a point in most
children’s time at or before school
where they will realise that…
› There is useful information out there on
the Internet, or apps for their device
that might help them
– with a homework project
– understand something that they have been
struggling with in class
– pursue a particular interest that they have
developed

To know nothing,
and yet know everything

To “know” everything
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At our fingertips:
› This generation has always had the sum
total of human knowledge at its
fingertips – although at first our children
will not have been aware of this
Photo credit: Gawker

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At our fingertips:
› There is now so much less friction
involved in following your interests,
particularly if they involve digital
technologies

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At our fingertips:
› There is now so much less friction
involved in following your interests,
particularly if they involve digital
technologies
› A motivated pupil can potentially follow
their interest to degree level and beyond
at their own pace
– and using material from world leading
institutions like MIT & the UK’s FutureLearn
consortium partners

The monopoly on information
has been broken

The monopoly is broken
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What’s my motivation?
› The monopoly on information has (by
and large) been broken
Photo credit: CC-BY Flickr user comedynose

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› Learners can pursue their interests
independently & achieve recognised
vocational qualifications without
entering an institution
– In tech disciplines now, maybe others later?

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› Learners can pursue their interests
independently & achieve recognised
vocational qualifications without
entering an institution
– In tech disciplines now, maybe others later?
– But what is a certificate from MongoDB
University worth?
› Colleges and universities increasingly
need to consider how they can add
value through e.g. work placements,
higher apprenticeships & facilities

A new kind of college

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College for the maker generation:
› Digital skills embedded in the
curriculum
– Coding is huge, but digital skills are much more
than this: everything from database
administration to data science
Photo credit: Hardware hacking at Interact Labs, picture courtesy Sean Clark

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curriculum
› Two way partnerships with employers
and the technology industry
– Early access to new and upcoming technologies
– Recognised certifications and accreditations
coupled with hands on workplace experience

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curriculum
› Two way partnerships with employers
and the technology industry
– Early access to new and upcoming technologies
– Recognised certifications and accreditations
coupled with hands on workplace experience
› Continuous evolution of the curriculum
– Preparing learners for jobs that didn’t exist a
few years ago, and the jobs of the future: from
drone engineers to cloud computing specialists

Continue the conversation…
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Except where otherwise noted, this
work is licensed under CC-BY
Martin Hamilton
Futurist, Jisc, London
@martin_hamilton
martin.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk

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