What is the #edchatNZ online course?
In collaboration with Jane Gilbert at AUT, we have carefully put together an online course that will develop your capacity to understand education futures in deeper, more complex ways, whilst taking on a more active, informed role in experimenting with future focussed change.
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Who is this course for?
- This course is perfect for anyone and everyone who is interested in the future of education. This includes teachers, senior leaders, boards of trustees and parents.
- We offer a free, open, online version of this course once a year. You can subscribe below if you wish to be kept up to date about future offerings.
- We are also able to facilitate this online course privately for whole schools, teams or organisations who wish to engage with challenging their practice to become more future focussed. Get in touch if you are interested.
What will I learn?
You can’t think outside the box until you know what the box is. We will start by defining the box, and then move on to thinking outside it. This means that in the first three weeks of this course, we will dig into the history of education so that we can better understand why things might need to be drastically different. From weeks four to seven we will make sense of just how the world is changing. We will look at technology, knowledge, climate change and futures literature to inform our thinking of just how and why schools might need to be radically different in the future. From week eight onwards, we will reimagine school, and start to experiment together using a range of interesting strategies. Finally, week eleven draws to a close with a last reflection to make sure we capture, and make sense of the enormous journey that we have been on together.
The course is made up of the following:
The course is made up of the following:
- Section one (weeks 1 - 3): Understanding why education is the way it is, so that we can think outside the square.
You can’t think outside the box until you know what the box is. Participants explored the history of education so that they can better understand why things might need to be drastically different. - Section two (weeks 4 - 7): The shifting foundations of education.
Participants made sense of a changing world including, technology, knowledge, climate change and futures literature. This helped them understand why schools might need to be radically different. - Section three (weeks 8 - 11): (Re)imagining education.
Participants reimagined school, and started to experiment using a range of interesting strategies to catalyse future focussed change.
Goals of this course:
Learning Objectives:
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Badges
There are four digital badges to claim towards the completion of this course. The first three are earned for completing each of the three major sections of this course:
The course has been designed in sections as some individuals may wish to only complete a particular section of the course, as it applies to their context or current learning needs.
- Section one (weeks 1 - 3): Understanding why education is the way it is, so that we can think outside the square.
You can’t think outside the box until you know what the box is. Participants explored the history of education so that they can better understand why things might need to be drastically different. - Section two (weeks 4 - 7): The shifting foundations of education.
Participants made sense of a changing world including, technology, knowledge, climate change and futures literature. This helped them understand why schools might need to be radically different. - Section three (weeks 8 - 11): (Re)imagining education.
Participants reimagined school, and started to experiment using a range of interesting strategies to catalyse future focussed change. - The final badge is awarded for overall completion of the course. In order to gain this badge, participants will need to have completed each section of the course, as well as submitted a portfolio that shows their thinking throughout the course.
The course has been designed in sections as some individuals may wish to only complete a particular section of the course, as it applies to their context or current learning needs.
We hope this MOOC will...
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