Making do and Making good: How not to waste a good crisis
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The document discusses the challenges and advancements in educational technology, referencing Nicholas Negroponte's vision of providing laptops to children and the evolution of significant technological breakthroughs. It highlights the accelerated pedagogic progress over the last decade, equating it to historical milestones in education and innovation. The text emphasizes the importance of tools in fostering new ways of thinking and the growing accessibility of the internet for billions globally.
Making do and Making good: How not to waste a good crisis
- 1. Making do & Making good How not to waste a good crisis
- 5. Self Organised Learning Environment 1999
- 10. Coming home to roost?
- 12. One Laptop per Child… is still criticised along the following lines: “Negroponte believes that you can give a child a laptop and walk away.” Whether I ever believed that or not is now secondary. It became such a refrain that I finally asked myself about a year ago: “What if you could?” Nicholas Negroponte, 2011
- 14. Technological breakthroughs often require further developments to make them broadly applicable. … while Thomas Newcomen built the first successful steam engine in 1712, it was not until about 1765 that major improvements in the engine by James Watt made it suitable for factory use. Still-later improvements, which included the addition of a governor and rotary movement, made the steam engine a huge economic success in the 1800s. Kliesen & Wheelock, 2001
- 15. innovation takes decades to sink in
- 16. Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale. Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago… In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day. Marc Andreessen, 2011
- 18. Feeling the pressure ‣ Survivors of crisis & deprivation
- 19. Feeling the pressure ‣ Survivors of crisis & deprivation ‣ Home-ed hippies
- 20. Feeling the pressure ‣ Survivors of crisis & deprivation ‣ Home-ed hippies ‣ College edupunks
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- 27. There has been more pedagogic progress in the last 10 years than the previous 1,000 years Donald Clark, 2012
- 29. If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. R.Buckminster Fuller
- 30. Credits & References Quotes, diagrams Photographs “Give a child a laptop and walk away…” (Negroponte) Haiti photo by Colin Crowley http://www.flickr.com/ Venkatraman, V. (2011). I want to give poor children photos/newbeatphoto/4294444104/ computers and walk away - opinion. New Scientist. http:// www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228425.500-i-want-to- Office (newsroom) photo by David Sim http:// www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/261126382 give-poor-children-computers-and-walk-away.html “Six decades into the computer revolution…” Andreessen, Classroom photo by Bart Everson http://www.flickr.com/ photos/editor/72550972 M. (2011) Why Software is Eating the World. Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/ Constipated face photo by John Ryan http:// SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460.ht www.flickr.com/photos/insightimaging/3586172160/ ml Chickens photo by Laura Hadden http://www.flickr.com/ “More pedagogic change in last 10 years…” Clark, D. photos/raucousrage/47615068/ (2011) http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/ more-pedagogic-change-in-last-10-years.html Empty pocket photo by Stuart Pilbrow http:// www.flickr.com/photos/stuartpilbrow/2942333106/ “Technological breakthroughs often require further developments…” Kliesen, K.L. & Wheelock, D.C. (2001) Self Organised Learning Environment photos from Mitra, S. The Microchip Flexes Its Muscle: Can It Compete with (2012) Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of History's Best? The Regional Economist. Retrieved from Self-Organized Learning. TED Books. http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=462 Khan Academy screenshot http://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:Khan_Academy_Statistics_The_Average.ogv Electrification & productivity histogram from Kliesen & Wheelock, ibid Village in a Box http://www.thehabihut.com/ product_village.html Learning by Yourselves slide from Nicholas Negroponte’s 2012 talk to Solve for <X> http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=CNRaM2GgQuA Global Village Construction Kit http:// opensourceecology.org/wiki/ Global_Village_Construction_Set
- 31. More information ‣ Education for the Crisis http://educationforthecrisis.wikispaces.com/ ‣ Agile Learning wiki http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/index.php/Agile_learning ‣ Follow @agilelearn
- 32. Bye!