The schome vision

The Schome vision

Developing the vision When thinking about Schome, there is a real tension between a blue skies and a pragmatic/strategic approach. The blue skies approach We start from a blank page - no constraints, no pre-conceptions - and design the ideal education system to meet the needs of individuals and society in the 21st century. The advantage of this approach is that we design the ideal system rather than ending up with something that only half does the job. The drawback is that we will not be taken seriously by government or other folk who will need to take us seriously if we are going to make Schome a reality. The pragmatic/strategic approach We design Schome based on the best that's out there already, and then add a whole lot more. The advantage of this approach is that we would be more likely to be taken seriously and thus to succeed in implementing our vision. The disadvantage is that this approach would restrict our thinking. A third way? Perhaps we need both - we need to understand what works (pragmatic) and what the potential is (blue skies) in order to build our vision. We then need to develop a strategy for getting there. Defining schome Visions of the future Adaptive interactive tutoral computer-based learning (Alfred Bork) Supported parental personal tuition (John Adcock) Pocket education (Alan Slater) A 'community apprenticship' model (User:PeterT) Hugo's vision pictures StBoniface's College visions The Association for IT in Teacher Education and visions The one-room schoolhouse A dialogic vision (Rupert Wegerif) A new global basic learning system Add a link to your vision here See also: Facer, K. (2011) Learning Futures: Education, technology and social change. London: Routledge. This is one of the best books on the future of education that I (PeterT) have read. It challenges conventional thinking about ‘21st century schools’ and opens up new avenues for thinking about the futures of education that we might want. A 21st Century Education which includes a series of video clips from interesting folk (such as Stephen Heppell) on what they think education should be like and/or current examples of 21st century education in practice today ... A summary of discussion within the schome-NAGTY Teen Second Life Pilot about what the education system should be like The Future Some thought provoking and very Schome relevant predictions. Recommended viewing! the New Horizons for Learning website which includes a range of educational vision papers What if ...? Re-imagining learning spaces (1.34mb pdf) which includes a range of 'Future scenarios' (p27 onwards). 2020 Visions: Transforming Education and Training through advanced technologies (pdf) which includes around 15 visions from the US in 2002. Visions 2020.2: Student views on transforming education and training through advanced technologies (pdf) which includes a range of visions from young people in the US in 2005. Over 30 vision papers from Open Education 2030 Videos to view I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0.mov A song about how kids need teachers to take on board new technologies. A Vision of K-12 Students Today Ok so it is set up and directed by an adult - but some powerful messages to think about. Education Today and Tomorrow An interesting clip about 19th century classrooms and 21st century skills A vision of students today A thought provoking clip put together by 200 students at Kansas State University Check out their blog Learning to Change - Changing to Learn Talking heads (some pretty significant ones such as Stephen Heppell) talking about the need for 21st Century skills ("The death of education but the birth of learning") It's Not on the test Couldn't resist this one - about the problems of testing and accountability ... The Machine is Us/ing Us An interesting 'analysis' of how technology impacts on ... everything? Related sections of the wiki Introduction to Schome The Schome vision Defining schome Schome and Second Life What's happening on Schome Base? What's happening on Schome Park? Elsewhere in our wiki Find out about major educational thinkers Find out about different educational approaches Find out about education in different countries Find out about Aspire – visions of future education Find out about some schools that are rethinking their practices

What is Schome? Schome is going to be a new form of educational system designed to overcome the problems within current education systems. It will meet the needs of society and individuals in the twenty-first century and will be a system which values and supports people learning throughout their lives. Join us. "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." R. Buckminster Fuller Aims of education Schome staff discussed what the aims of education should be. This Wordle illustration summarises our ideas. Links to make us think The Guardian's Schools of the Future page Gary Hayes' Social Media Counter provides a real time indication of the level of activity within a range of web tools including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Second Life, and using mobile phones. Not sure how accurate it is, but thought provoking ... Vision Mapper was created by FutureLab to support educators in thinking about their visions of education. It includes six future scenarios, a range of tools to support vision building activities, and other relevant resources. A great starting point. Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow 2 which has guidelines which map well onto the sorts of things that the Schome Park Programme has been coming up with ... Michael Wesch and the future of education - an interesting talk given by Michael W at the University of Manitoba on the 17th June 2008. Conceptual Notes - a grand term for some pages that have ideas that seem important to the schome vision debate Provocations - a collection of ideas/activities to provoke your thinking about what visions of schome Some Schomics about our use of Second Life plus some about education and learning more generally Bosco J (2005) Building New Schools, Invited keynote, ITSC Conference, Sydney, Australia, Nov-2005. (pdf file) Bosco J (2006) Tools, Culture and Education: Past - Present - Future, Global Summit 2006, Sydney, Australia, Oct-2006. There are both great reads - and explain quite clearly why there are problems with our current educational system (and schools in particular). Second Life - a virtual world where we might be able to build schome Eckert, P. (1992) The School as a Community of Engaged Learners, Working draft, Palo Alto CA: Institute for Research on Learning. http://secondlife.com/ Planning & Designing Technology-Rich Learning Spaces JISC funded infoKit on designing future learning spaces for FE and HE. http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/learning-space-design Pay Attention A video provocation that suggests that we need to be using technology - if you can't beat them join them ... http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=2d8e520c2b9461c0a3d3 Their Space: Education for a digital generation Green, H. & Hannon, C. (2007) Their Space: Education for a digital generation, London: Demos. http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/theirspace (viewed 20-Jan-2007) Unteachables - a Channel 4 site that has lots of ideas about schools of the future - including a great 'design your own school site http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/U/unteachables/design.html iNET student online conference The first online conference for students, which was focussed on nine themes from David Hargreaves book, Personalised Learning: Next Steps in Working Laterally (2004). Following the student conference there was a week for adult discussion of the issues raised by the young people. http://www.cybertext.net.au/student06/ The 'School Works' online questionnaire on school building design - not only a very cool web interface but also raises some issues about different aspects of school design - and you can contribute to their data. http://www.school-works.org/poll/ Carroll, T.G. (2000). If we didn't have the schools we have today, would we create the schools we have today? Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 1 (1): 117 - 140 http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss1/currentissues/general/article1.pdf Clinchy, Evans (2003). Rethinking "Academic Achievement: Is This What Really Want for Our Children? Progressive Perspectives, 4 (2) CyberText A site with lots of links to stuff about the future of education, including some Technology Colleges Trust 'vision' conferences. http://www.cybertext.net.au/ Coulson, Andrew (2003). Implementing "Education for All": Moving from Goals to Action. A paper prepared for the 2nd Incontro Internazionale Milanoliberal, 2003. http://www.schoolchoices.org/roo/coulson_milan-(2003).pdf Ford, M. (2009) The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future. USA: Acculant Publishing. ISBN: 978 1 4486 5981 4 JISC (2006) Designing Spaces for Effective Learning - a webpage providing access to a paper (or PDF) publication of the same name, which looks at learning space design in FE and HE. Some interesting ideas. Also has links to other resources re learning spaces. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/eli_learningspaces.html Marshak, David The Inquiry School: A Sketch of a High School for the Next Generation http://horizon.unc.edu/projects/HSJ/Marshak.asp Naace (2006) Future Learning: How to transform learning in the school of the future. A webiste linked to the 'Transformed Education' project - has ideas about what needs to change and how ICT might facilitate these changes, based on views of members of Naace (who are generally folk involved in ICT in school level education - Local Authority advisors, academics, consultants). http://www.future-learning.net/index.html Newby, Mike (2006) Teaching 2012: Report, London: TDA. Report on the debate at a sequence of regional seminars held between October 2005 and March 2006 in England in which participants shared their views on teaching in 2012. http://www.tda.gov.uk/partners/futures/whatshappeningnow.aspx QCA Futures A website that explores how the curriculum (and assessment) need to change to meet the needs of the time. Some useful stuff here - which one might not initially expect to come from the body responsible for the National Curriculum in England! http://www.qca.org.uk/10969.html Transforming Compulsory Education What does it mean to be 'educated' in the 21st century? Read the penultimate paragraph first -highly Schomic. [1] Egypt 'poised for future of world education competition' - an article in the THE about how Egypt is trying to create a learning society. Improving this site The views expressed within these pages are the views of the contributors. 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