Ideas Around EdTech

Educational technology addresses fundamental issues of learning and teaching by envisioning education through technology innovation. Anupam discusses today's ideas around education technology in four categories:
ideas that have arrived,
ideas in progress,
ideas in conflict, and
ideas in anticipation.

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1. Anupam Kumar The views expressed in this presentation are the authors. around #edtech* Ideas *as of 4/30/2014
2. @MrAnupamKumar Educational Technology addresses the fundamental issues of learning and teaching by envisioning education through technology innovation.
3. @MrAnupamKumar http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2013-11-15-times_square-thumb.jpg http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2013-11-15-classroom-thumb.jpg
4. @MrAnupamKumar http://www.huffingtonpost.com/her-campus/4-ways-your-college-class_b_3658223.html
5. @MrAnupamKumar 6 billion people on Earth have a mobile phone ITU/United Nations October 2012 Chad Kainz, Blackboard Inc.
6. @MrAnupamKumar 6 billion people on Earth have a mobile phone ITU/United Nations October 2012 56 % of American adults own a smartphone Pew Internet Research June 2013 Chad Kainz, Blackboard Inc.
7. @MrAnupamKumar Anytime, Anywhere 56 % of American adults own a smartphone Pew Internet Research June 2013 People expect to be able to work, learn and study whenever and wherever they want. New Media Consortium Horizon Report 2012 K-12 Edition Chad Kainz, Blackboard Inc.
8. @MrAnupamKumar 26 % of 6th to 8th grade students in the US have a tablet Project Tomorrow April 2012 (Speak Up Findings) 56 % of American adults own a smartphone Pew Internet Research June 2013 Chad Kainz, Blackboard Inc.
9. @MrAnupamKumar 26 % of 6th to 8th grade students in the US have a tablet Project Tomorrow April 2012 (Speak Up Findings) 43 minutes per day spent on mobile devices by 0-8 year-olds in the US Common Sense Media Research October 2011 Chad Kainz, Blackboard Inc.
10. @MrAnupamKumar “I use technology to inspire myself. I watch TED talks, blog, and read fanfiction. Technology empowers us and gives us the ability to nourish our imagination and fill us with inspiration. I use the successful ideas students from around the nation tell me about and incorporate it into our own school. Technology has been a big part of my life, I bask in the information it presents me with from simple how to videos to solving differentiated equations.” (Girl, Grade 12, Perris, California) http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/SU13_StudentReportTEXT.html
11. @MrAnupamKumar Ideas that have arrived Ideas in progress Ideas in conflict Ideas in anticipation
12. @MrAnupamKumar Ideas that have arrived • Taking teaching beyond the chalk and pencil Whiteboards  Smart boards Paper  Word Processor Encyclopedias  Wikipedia/ Internet Worksheets  Web Games • The concept of blended learning Having an online presence (Learning Management System) Incorporating external media and content Teaching with technology is ‘in’ beyond the early adopters. In fact, it’s expected.
13. @MrAnupamKumar Ideas in progress • Mobile Learning Access policies are being revised Classroom management • Adaptive Learning Leveraging the technology and using data • Social Learning (User generated learning) Connecting, creating, contributing • Gaming and Simulations The Future Learner | Anytime, anyplace, personalized.
14. @MrAnupamKumar Ideas in conflict • MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) – Often, 90% of the people who sign-up, don’t finish. – Students feel isolated and disengaged. • Flipped Learning (Flipped Classroom) Khan Academy and Sal Khan Competency based • Pace of student progress – Why grade level conformity? – Competency based education Face-to-face education can’t be replaced, but face-to-face education is not possible everywhere.
15. @MrAnupamKumar Ideas in anticipation • Competency Based/ Skills Based Learning The end of the university “K-12” will turn into a competency based learning model “College” will be skills based Professors bring their own classroom; Transcript  Badge • End of the textbook Interactive content Moving from a 2D to a 3D environment • Special Education support Autism support Mobile Apps and algorithms to redefine the perspective to learning • Open and Big Data • Educating the world
16. @MrAnupamKumar ½ a billion dollars raised by #EdTech startups in 2014 Q1 alone. TechCrunch March 2014
17. @MrAnupamKumar ½ a billion dollars raised by #EdTech startups in 2014 Q1 alone. TechCrunch March 2014 A lot of great Ideas are yet to be seen.
18. @MrAnupamKumar Acknowledgements and Sources • Data sources have been indicated on each pertinent slide and note. • ‘Ideas’ layout – Nandan Nilekani (TED talk ‘Ideas on India’ from Feb 2009, and Book: Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation) • Shalu Rana, PhD Candidate, Assistive Technology, George Mason University • Data layout (Slides 5-9 and 16-17) Chad Kainz, Principal Strategist, Blackboard Education Services • The Voice of the Active Learner – Blackboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5Vy9BgSeY • Speak Up (www.tomorrow.org) Student Report 2013/2014- http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/SU13_StudentReportTEXT.html
19. @MrAnupamKumar About the author Anupam Kumar @MrAnupamKumar Anupam manages a portfolio of strategic projects within the Education Services division of Blackboard Inc. He is a software developer, strategist, all around education technology evangelist, Rotarian, and struggling golfer.