Recorded at the Educational Leaders Forum 2011, University of Canterbury's Chris Jansen explores the change process, and whether or not this can be made positive.
Recorded at the Educational Leaders Forum 2011, University of Canterbury's Chris Jansen explores the change process, and whether or not this can be made positive.
Recorded at the Educational Leaders Forum 2011, University of Canterbury's Chris Jansen explores the change process, and whether or not this can be made positive.
Dr Scott McLeod was the opening keynote speaker at the 2011 Learning@school conference. In this EDtalk Scott talks about the need for people who are working with information to change in order to keep pace with the changes that new technologies are bringing. Schools as information institutions also need to adapt or risk being replaced as students find other ways to learn. Scott explains how the key to addressing this is effective leadership.
Christian Long (@christianlong), educator, designer, school planner and futurist, talks atLearning@School12 about the questions that transcend technology, architecture, or resource decisions. He asks us what does it mean to think and learn in the future? Do we have something extraordinary to go after?
ULearn11 keynote speaker Dr Jack Bacon is a noted futurist and a technological historian. In this presentation he asserts that humans have been doubling what we know and what we can do every 30 years since the Renaissance, and the exponent of our acceleration is showing many signs of picking up in many facets of society. Dr Bacon tells us that it appears that human understanding of that universe now going through an explosive new creation of its own.
