session overview

Future learning

People are natural learning animals, but we don’t always treat them that way – either in the workplace or at school. But just as there are people pushing the boundaries of learning in the workplace, there are also those changing things in the educational space, working on solid data and good practice to understand how we learn best. Professor Stephen Heppell is one such person. Rather than using 20th century behaviourism to teach to 19th century aims, he will share in his unique conversational style the benefits of understanding how we really learn and of building environments to support that learning.

P1: Third millennium learning – dealing with the certainty of uncertainty

Professor Stephen Heppell, CEO, Heppell.net

We live in a world full of surprises and when things go wrong and the oil leaks, or the finance sector collapses, or volcanic ash clouds block our skies, they go very wrong indeed. For us all to survive as the surprises grow in scale and frequency we need learners who are ready for anything, who relish challenge and know how to work together, rapidly, to head off the worst consequences and harness the best opportunities.

• Preparing learners for the certainty of uncertainty
• Why a standardised curriculum is a colossal and avoidable danger
• The role of technology in injecting surprise and ambition into learning
• How ‘met-before’ curriculum belong in last century’s factory schools
• Why teachers hoping to ‘cover everything’ fail their students