U Learn 2016 - Rewiring Education: Every child can succeed

Rewiring Education

Every child can succeed

Presenter: John Couch

ULearn 5th October 2016

Apple’s Leadership Model:

Vision - Mental Bicycle

Mission - One computer, one person

Directions - Strategic (Consumer, education)

Steps - Tactical (creative)

People - Companions, not competitors

Guidelines - Think Different

Focussed on a shared vision.

If the students are engaged, they are going to learn!  (Result from Apple’s 12 year longitudinal research project)

“Education is what people do to you.  Learning is what you do for yourself”

Education - Overall paradigm: delivery, Social structure: hierarchy , Context: classroom, Environment: simulated

Learning - Overall paradigm: discovery, Social structure: community, Context: world, Environment: real.

Santa Fe Christian School Vision:

Vision - Beyond Potential

Mission - Develop the leaders of tomorrow

Directions - Academic, Operational

Steps-...

People - Education evangelists

Guidelines - Bible

They got the people all moving in the same direction.

Went from being a school with 100 people and several thousands of dollars in debt, to toady one of the largest, most successful Christian schools in the US.

• Look at the student that needs to be challenged and then deliver them the program that they need to succeed.

Technology should be used to do something in the classroom that you couldn’t do in the classroom without the technology.

Steve Jobs:

“... All books, learning materials, and assessments should be digital and interactive, tailored to each student and providing feedback in real time”.

Apples Classroom of Tomorrow Today:

Relevant

Creative

Collaborative

Challenging

Apple’s Vision for Apple - Education

Vision - Unique Genius  (Every student is uniquely gifted)

Mission - Personal Learning Environment (unleashing creativity through content, community and context)

Directions - Institution and Individual

Steps - iBooks Author, iTunes U, Classroom, Swift

People - Evangelists

Guidelines - Think Ahead

Content should be distributed in a relevant, challenging context to get value.

Collaboration and Personal Learning:

• The more collaboration, the more exposure, the more internships, = the greater the student’s knowledge.

Teachers and students : Students and students

“Knowledge is not a commodity that is delivered from teacher to student but something that emerges from the student’s own curiosity-fueled exploration”.  Joshua Davis, Wired Magazine

Context

Challenge based learning - the student picks the challenge

• Feel
• Imagine
• Do
• Share

(Pedagogy Framework)

“Never again is someone going to pay you to give them answers they can look up online.  They’ll only pay you to solve problems that don’t yet have answers” Seth Godin.

“...individuality matters - the individual is not error, and on the human qualities that matter most (like talent, intelligence, personality, and character) individuals cannot be reduced to a single score”.  Todd Rose

Everyone should have the opportunity to create something that can change the world.

Everyone can code.

apple.com/nz/education/everyone-can-code

Swift  -program to teach coding.

Book Creator

World’s largest taxi company owns no taxis (Uber)