TEACHING AND LEARNING WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

1. TEACHING AND LEARNINGWHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD? Teaching Assistant’s Training Wyche CE School

2. Section 1:Time To Think

3. Time to Reflect We are driven externally by government initiatives and pressures from OFSTED, QCA, SATS, Literacy strategy, Numeracy framework that we sometimes feel the agenda is written for us. In the new Education Bill the Government is seeking to redress the balance between centralised directives and school based autonomy. (NZ model)

4. Key Questions • What is education for? • Do we need it? • Why have schools?

5. An Introduction Should education stay the same or should it change?

6. Education and the Future Our reception children will leave university in 2022? Will we have prepared them for the world they will enter Are we educating for the future or the past?

7. Schools for the Future “One of the only places operating largely as it did 50 years ago would be the local school” Renate Numella and Geoffrey Caine

8. Our Education System A Victorian knowledge based system to prepare children for skills they need in an industrial workplace

9. Expanding knowledge Is it possible for students to keep up with a knowledge based curriculum? • Knowledge in the world doubles every year (1985) • In science alone 10,000 new articles are published every day

10. The Changing World “The world our kids are going to live in is changing four times faster than our schools” Dr. William Daggett Director of International centre for education and leadership

11. Section 2:What will the Future Look Like? If we can understand the major social and economic trends then we can plan a future for our children

12. Trend 1: The Technological Revolution

13. The Age of Technological Revolution “This age will be remembered in History as one that had a greater and more significant impact than the industrial revolution a century previous”

14. The power of Technology We live in the first era in human history when our species’ entire heritage of knowledge, wisdom and beauty is available to each of us virtually on demand. Robert Gross

15. Now choose what we want to learn and get instant information on it • In 1993 there were 50 web sites. Now there are in excess of 350 million • BBC website has over 1 million pages • 151 million on Internet.

16. Now choose what we want to learn and get instant information on it • 2001: 30 times as much email as post in the US • 1994: More CD-ROM encyclopedias than printed ones. • Whole libraries and art galleries on one CD-ROM.

17. Changing Times, Changing Needs Should farmers have taught their sons an agricultural curriculum in the mid 19th century? Should we be teaching an industrial curriculum at the beginning of the 21st century?

18. Information and Communications Technology “Technology has revolutionised the way we work and is now set to revolutionise education. Children cannot be effective in tomorrows world if they are trained in yesterday’s skills” Tony Blair: Net Year 1998

19. Keyboard Skills 1980 A negative response to teaching keyboard skills 2001 A positive response to teaching keyboard skills? Voice activated computers

20. Trend 2: The One world economy

21. A One World Economy “Everyone has access to the best that the world has to offer.” Gordon Dryden

22. A One World Economy • There are now few economic borders • Each economy will need entrepreneurs that can see and seize the myriad of opportunities that this new global market offers • Buying a scooter from the US

23. Four steps to new economy • European Community • 15 countries, 370 million people • North American FTA • US, Canada, Mexico: 370 million, with South America coming up • Asian-Pacific rim • China replacing Japan as leader • Clusters of excellence • Silicon Valley and “Overseas Chinese” • (57 million Chinese entrepreneurs living outside mainland with 2-3 trillion US dollars which they will increasingly use to invest in Asia)

24. Trend 3: The Service Sector

25. The new service society Manufacturing Services Farming 1900 50.0% 1980 1960 3.5% 40% 1990 17% 1992 This leaves 88.5% 2.0% 2000 10% 1.5% 2000 2000

26. The New Service Society General Electric • 1980 $25 billion • 2000 $130 billion • 2001 $c450 billion “GE can no longer prosper by selling manufacturing goods alone” Jack Welch (Chief Exec)

27. The New Service Society 80% of GE profits now come from services as opposed to 16.4% in 1980 For years it sold CAT scanners to hospitals In 1995 it won a contract to service them all and those of its competitors

28. Trend 4: The Changing shape of work

29. Changing shape of work Four clusters: • Few fulltime • Project work • Part-time • Self employed

30. From Big to Small “90% of new jobs are in companies with under 50 people” John Naisbitt Mega trends

31. From Big to Small “By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be self” Nicholas Negroponte Being Digital

32. From big to small • Franchising • $250 billion in US • 20,000 McDonalds • Networking • $20 billion in Japan: • Amway 2.5 million

33. From big to small The innovative entrepreneur will find opportunities to dovetail a small business into a large corporation • Cakes at Somerfield • The school lunches

34. From big to small The trend towards “personalised scale” The move to harness the benefits of “economies of scale” to meet the needs of the individual consumer e.g. Levi jeans (body size, colour, style etc.)

35. The Knowledge Economy The locus of control The industrial economy had a boss/worker balance The knowledge economy thrives on those who work independently. Why employ a worker and a boss when a man can work independently?

36. The Knowledge Economy We will not apply for jobs we will invent them. We will work from home and create a career

37. The Knowledge Economy The key will be to reinvent yourself and your career throughout your working lifetime

38. Your home….Your everything Your home will be your new learning centre, leisure centre, Entertainment centre and work centre

39. Something to Ponder What are the social implications ? • Permanent job insecurity • Insularity of single workplace/home How should schools prepare children for it?

40. Trend 4: The Age of Leisure

41. The new age of leisure In an old manufacturing 45 hour week we would work 9000 hours in a 40 year career In an EU 35 hour week we would work 7000 hours How will we use these extra 2000 hours?

42. The new age of leisure There will be 2 billion tourists by 2000. Britain already attracts 23 million visitors (France 56 million Orlando 34 million) How important is it to prepare children to use leisure time wisely?

43. Psychological Implications “Stress can be the perception of being unable to cope with too much or too littlein one’s life” The breaking down of the “Protestant work ethic” How vital is PE, Music and Art?

44. Trend 5: Women in leadership

45. Women in leadership • USA: In 1980’s of 22 million new jobs, two thirds taken by women • JAPAN: Nearly all currency traders are women • HONG KONG: One in five management jobs • BRITAIN: Anita Roddick and The Bodyshop set the new business ethic

46. Women in leadership Key Reasons • The rise of the equal opportunities agenda • The skills of the knowledge economy are interpersonal in nature

47. Trend 6: Greater Democracy

48. The soul of the 21st Century “For the first time in history more people live under governments of their own choosing than under dictatorships”

49. The soul of the 21st Century “The victims (of September 11th) represent the world I worked hard to build, a world of expanding freedom, opportunity and citizen responsibility a world of growth in diversity and in the bonds of community” Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001

50. The view of the terrorists “The terrorists thought that the differences they have with us were all that mattered and anyone who did not share it were a legitimate target” Bill Clinton Dimbleby Lecture Dec 2001