Future of Learning Day 2 afternoon sessions

Notes from Day 2:

We were blessed with a performance from Daisy Lavea-Timo at the beginning of the afternoon. She was stunning as always. You can see her TED performance here.

JAMES HAYES - Changing the baby in the bath

Virtual medical coaching

Education today is designed by people who did well in the style of education that we are still using today

Used to be uni students straight from school. Now 25% are not

Advice about a career, become a hairdresser, it will be a long time before a robot can cut hair

Recognition needs to be given to all learning styles, if they can't write, don't assess that way

RPL - recognition of prior learning too hard to get

Education system gets our learners to a destination

Sunk costs

If you need to change the baby in the bath it won't work

Spent money, not doing it badly, do we need to change it?

Need to forget about sunk cost and we need to think in a new way

Let's start again.

It's difficult, like internet banking changing, don't know how to use this…

Change has to be done with great care

Very linear approach at the moment, same material, same order, same experience from start to finish

Why are credits measured in hours, why are degrees measured in year

Why are we measuring this in time?

Multiple choice questions used a lot for assessment, can usually spot the answer even without ability

Skillitics Health can login in any device

Because we can do something in it that we can't do in another paradigm then VR is useful

Depending on answers they go down different pathways.

Need to give them information on their progress and then they can fill in the gaps

Can do it on phone as well

Confidence on getting the right answers, 5% confident they have it right is better than 100% confident of a wrong answer

Big data platform

Send out assessment that is relevant and individualised. Problem it's same marks for easy task and hard task 

The next two sessions are breakout sessions 

Piripi Prendergast - Look to the Past to Embrace the Future

Are industry ready for the jump in Maori workers?

Makes sense for the future of NZ to have or Maori youth qualified

Year 11-12 lost 17% then 42% not entering yr 13

19% leaving school with no qualification

Tertiary numbers deceptive, many into low level courses

What are the solutions?

Engineering apprenticeships have great outcome, carpentry not good outcomes, only 50% complete them

Q: How might we reshape the awa to ensure maori success?

How might we block off some channels?

What new channels might we open?

Challenges transitioning to tertiary

From an early age they have it ingrained they are not good at things

Woman applied for job under two names , got the one with pakeha name, not the Māori

Mixed ability maths teaching, much better

Changing workers to represent Māori

30% of minority in a workplace normalises them

What can you personally do?

Link to Māori Futures site

RAY O'BRIEN - Microcredentials

Micro credentials as an 'and', not replacing qualifications

Problems:

Low transfer of pd learning into the workplace

Low level of people who can work and learn

Content driven not need driven

Closed system in an open world, several pathways

Lack of responsiveness

High up front costs

Edubits

Māori course, not knowledge, just assessment to show how you put it in the workplace

50-100hrs activity

Learning just enough when you want it

Like learning outcome

Naturally occurring evidence important

What's your edubit idea?

Small chunks

Not doing at a distance

Identify a gap in NZ quals

Reflections can contribute to the assessment

THE J TEAM: JOHN BALASH, JASON SWANSON & JESSICA TRYBUS - PANEL: REFLECTIONS ON THE CONFERENCE AND "WHERE NOW?"

What has changed in your thinking?

Reinforced youth at the centre of conversation

Proposition of collector future

Fascinated by digital humans

Refreshing to know we are not alone

What didn't we talk about that its critical for fol?

Include visions and youth perspective on the future, ask them

Where's the student in the room?

What's the role of industry?

Where is the money to push this forward?

Tip or idea to use tomorrow

The answer to how is yes

What type of problems do you want to solve, not what job do you want

Stay connected

What did you learn from NZ?

Just get it done

The people in this room

Equity and native populations

Different perspectives

Tuakana

Mental health

CBT using a bot online, journal, share more with a bot than with people

Fol, systems should prepare us but also create healthy young people and adults

What would you do if you could wave a magic wand?

Would create an entirely different education system

Finding the joy in learning, erase the gunk

How will AI affect free will?

Happening now

Use search engines to take you out of that system

Tech more available than 5yrs ago

Maker and the hacker - can re purpose

The change has to be created together

Ashoka changemakers best school for future proof

Passion to continue to learn

Share that learning is enjoyable. Celebrate the learning. Then be the mentor

Mentor is most important job

Sense of love and help

Pay forward

Cheryl and Hamish:

45-75 % of our work will change due to technology - what steps can we take to help adult learners change and adapt

Are you busy designing a future assuming it will be the same?

How do we help people in the journey - wellness