Keynotes

= Jane Gilbert =

[|Bio of Jane]

[|Catching the Knowledge Wave]

Knowledge, the disciplines and learnig in the digital age

 * Things we need to rethink before we use ICT


 * Knowledge's **meaning has changed** => Knowledge Age schooling does **not** mean 'more of the same' kinds of knowledge ...


 * Importance of **disciplines** and **sorting** of people
 * Plato - education system designed to develop the qualities needed in philospher kings (society's watchdogs or guardians of society)
 * knowledge-centered -> basis of traditional academic curriculum
 * elitist system for tiny proportion of the population
 * from late 1800's most people started to go to school
 * 1) human resources need
 * 2) equal opportunity
 * production line model of schooling
 * 1) year groups
 * 2) process at same rate
 * 3) standardised quality product
 * 4) sorted (assessment)
 * one size fits all -> student has to fit the model not the model fit the student
 * academic curriculum is the quality control


 * **Industrial Age vs Knowledge Age**


 * post-modern thinking - the space between people - the connections - rather than the individual


 * ICT's enable the connections


 * knowledge society -> paradigm shift / like an earthquake fault line
 * knowledge has a new meaning
 * //knowledge is no longer linked to **truth** but to **performativity** - what it can **do** and to **innovation**//
 * shift from **knowledge** as a **//noun//** to **knowledge** as a **//verb//**
 * knowledge is now dynamic, fluid, generative, something that causes things to happen; no longer an object or a thing that is codified into disciplines but more like energy


 * new means of knowledge and learning


 * minds are resources that can be connected to other resources in order to generate new knowledge


 * [|The world is flat]


 * [|Right brain thinkers]


 * knowledge age education system
 * 1) kids solving real-life problems
 * 2) multi-modal literacy
 * 3) relationships, connections and interactions
 * 4) personalised learning -> making the system fit the learner not the learner fit the system; learners active knowledge-builders; multiple ways of being


 * schools producers of knowledge not consumers