21st century learning - at EnhanceLearning

This was a very enjoyable event, and the video has lots of little edits that catch the flavour of the discussion and workshops. I'm rambling on about 21st century learning - I seem to remember I'd only just arrived back in the UK.

Anyway, a well edited reminder of an enjoyable event - it's on YouTube and elsewhere no doubt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YQ45v_hceE

Island Sound radio interview

Back in 1992 (yes, 92!) I was interviewed on 'Island Sound' radio by the wonderful Phil Miles.  He asked good questions about old people and tech, about computers enhancing learning, about computer evolution and about much more besides.

That interview became a resource on a pioneering CD-ROM we produced in 1991/2 at Ultralab: "Insights for Teachers and Parents" with a mass of cutting edge multimedia applications that we'd developed,  with a host of help for teachers and parents ("how do you mark multimedia?"...)

Insights was a very special CD-ROM, but here at least is the interview: Stephen Heppell and Phil Miles.
http://rubble.heppell.net/media_forum/moovs/island_sound.mov

I'm not sure I'd change a single word if he asked me the same things today...

Death of TV

This was part of an interesting BBC Horizon programme in the last century - somewhere around early 1996, but based on work I did at Ultralab in 1994 - other Ultranauts involved too of course - what a team that was! At that time children were being demonised for watching too much TV, having no concentration, etc. The usual stuff. My work simply started with the hypothesis that children might have become quite good at watching TV, were literate enough with broadcast media to be able to watch multiple channels and may even have been bored by the "I'm only asking you to do one thing, surely you can manage that" kind of rant heard in a few classrooms.

We got groups of four, mixed age, from a mix of schools, and showed them four programmes. They could arrange the screens (small VHS/TVs) any way they liked. Short version was that they could manage 4 programmes, with great con concentration evidenced. They answered tough detail questions (no conferring!) and even meta level reflections about character and plot. Groups on average took 20 minutes to set the volume levels right so that, as one reflected "I can focus my ears on the one I'm not watching"...

Anyway, here is the core of the show - the bit I was involved with. It's a QuickTime .mov file and a bit raw - compression codecs not to be trusted in those days, I'll try to post a Flash version too, eventually! The research was recreated a bit over a year later for this show but was pretty faithful to it, apart from the programmes we showed them varied a little for © reasons.

http://rubble.heppell.net/media_forum/moovs/end_of_tv.mov

I can't believe how young I looked. Sigh.

Finally, it's clear to everyone

Liverpool to Queensland live

This is an interesting little stream of thoughts. I was in Liverpool, at the Media Education Summit, speaking to folk in Queensland Australia. I hope Ii make some interesting points - but the conversation across the world is relaxed and mails afterwards suggest it worked pretty well.

Anyway, you judge - here's the video

Making notes...

Oh this is really interesting: a group of young children in Drummore Primary School, at Scotland's most south westerly point are learning brass instruments from a video-linked teacher. Now as a former chairman of the European Teleconferencing Federation, I'm used to video-linking, but in this instance the link wasn't just a "nearly" version of face to face, it was actually substantially better: the distance from the tutor meant that the children needed to support each other and the headteacher was confident that this resultant mutuality runs into the classroom when the children are away from the link. Watching, I could see that she was quite right about that. All sorts of little practical details about how to do it effectively emerged too - invaluable.

I could write tons about this, but Alan Cameron - who has made all this extraordinary work happen - recorded a conversation we had together, reflecting on the whole experience a litle later that same day. It covers a lot more detail...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf2DhHhMOE0

everything has escaped from its boxes...

A lovely gentle conversation on top of a staircase, during breakfast, in an event in Sweden. The interview was by a group of "young business creatives" in May 2009. Click on the image to start the video...

"everything has escaped from its boxes, and it's the most delightful time..."

http://sites.google.com/a/ybc-nacka.se/intranet/podcast

The Future of Learning

For a while in the UK the government education department DfES, (which then became DCSF), articulated some extraordinary moments of clarity - and often Eileen Devonshire was at the heart of this work to open the key debates needed if government policy was to keep up with the pace of innovation in schools and industry.

One such contribution was to commission (from the talented folk at Magic Lantern) this short video about the future of learning: students, NQTs, wise old owls, Anthony Minghella (sadly missed), Prof Sir Magdi Yacoub, Sir Paul Smith, Sir Trevor McDonald, old archive footage, and all sorts. I got to narrate it - fab little buzz of video for professional development etc.

two versions here: sumptuous QuickTime or (almost as good) fast streaming compressed Flash version

Now we are talking...

Now We Are Talking is a Testra site, full of useful little provocations and conversations. On a recent trip to Australia they were kind enough to interview me on Internet Safety and a lot more besides.

Here is that interview. (scroll down the page a bit for the video - or just read the summary txt)

"nowwearetalking is about telecommunications and you. It's where you can become involved, have your say, and Telstra listens - on issues affecting all Australians and the telecommunications industry. nowwearetalking is managed by Telstra. Find out more about this site."

Space, the final frontier

As a launch of the SPACE: ADM-HEA Annual Forum 2009 CEMP was asked to assemble this short provocation about learning spaces in Higher Education. It's on YouTube, but can be found directly from the Art Design Media Subject Centre's section of the HE Academy's website.:

http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/events/our-events/space-the-final-frontier

Empowering Young Learners

I'm really please with this short video. if you watch only one thing on heppell.tv, watch this...

"The Mobile Learning Institute's Film Series “A 21st Century Education” profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. “A 21st Century Education” compiles in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen."

Stephen Heppell: Empowering Young Learners
In this film, Heppell makes his way through London, describing his vision for schools, meeting with kids at the Be Very Afraid conference, and exploring ideas for classroom design in a technology pilot school in Teddington

http://www.mobilelearninginstitute.org/21stcenturyeducation/films/film-stephen-heppell.html

BBC Today, Radio 4

To quote from the programme synopsis:

A review on education has advocated replacing a curriculum of traditional subjects with six broad areas of understanding. And putting IT at the heart of teaching. Stephen Heppell, a consultant in the education field, says "the world has gone learning mad" in preparing legislation within the education sector.

Here is the brief radio interview - I had a lot of very supportive mail after this by the way...

I hope this link works for overseas friends, the BBC site is a bit odd about who can or can't see / hear its stuff

Kent TV interview - headteachers conference 08

I rushed in from the airport to address Kent's annual Headteachers' Conference 08. Kent TV intervieed me afterwards about what I'd said, and why I was there.

This is the interview.

Learners' voice, global education, policy, etc

Be Very Afraid

Each year a selection of ingenious students - from primary to university age - are invited along to BAFTA in London's Piccadilly to show and talk about the extraordinary things they are doing with new technologies in their learning. These conversations are captured as video - with great production values - and can all be found from the event website HERE

Each year I get to do a reflective summary at the end - these are on the website, but also on YouTube. Here is the one from 2008

And here is a BBC Radio 4 Learning Curve programme, made after one such BVA event,

Learning to Change/Changing to Learn

the Learning to Change/Changing to Learn video was made by the talented folk (Stephen Brown et al). With a host of sensible folk intervied this was a provocation for the excellent Consortium for School Networking conference in 2008. It is used by a LOT of schools as a stimulus for CPD, discussion etc. Lots of useful little sound bites, great production values.

"every turned off device is potentially a turned off child"
"nearly now"

Here is the link to the video on the Pearson Foundation website, and also on YouTube

Handheld Learning 08 intro

I chaired an afternoon session. This was my intro - covers things like the parallels between finance industry collapse and education. "there is no THEY, there is only US" etc

video of my introduction

K12 Online Conference 2008

I delivered the pre-conference keynote to this event. My title was:
“It Simply Isn’t the 20th Century Any More Is It?: So Why Would We Teach as Though It Was?”

and i was able to record this in a rather chatty, quite intimate style, sitting at a table at my East Coast home. Not sure whether it was the quiet conversational style or the wide range of subject matter covered, but this one has been all round the blogosphere for months and I get a lot of feedback about it (so far all encouraging!)

here's the link to the details and a video of the whole chat

Do schoolchildren and students know how to research?

Professor Guy Claxton, me, Kathryn Pollard, Prof Patrick Ainley - all chaired by BBC Education correspondent James Westhead at the RSA in London for a debate about whether choolchildren and students know how to research?

Light, jolly, here's the link to vodcasts and podcasts

The Journey to Excellence - LTS

I'm a fan of Learning and Teaching Scotland. As part of Scottish education's journey to excellence they collected a host of interesting interviews with a range of folk, "leading thinkers", and that apparently included me.

Here's the whole set of videos on the HMIe website in Scotland

I think these are all up on YouTube too

Media Snackers interview

The 86th MediaSnackers podcast featured me and DK asked some cool questions "what has changed?" to get the chat humming along.

"1950 to 2000 will be seen as the moment of aberration"
"What possible use could there be for uniform children in the 21st century"
"the internet is built upside down"
etc

It's an audio interview - here it is on Media Snacker's website

ALT-C 2006

I did the keynote for ALT-C 2006, the 13th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, which was held at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, between 5 and 7 September 2006.

Terry Mayes gave an amusing (and flattering) - this audio stream captures that, AND MY TALK.

I rather like this talk by the way - not just because of Terry's generous introduction... ALT-C is such a good community.

Edward Boyle Memorial Lecture

Synopsis

In this programme Professor Stephen Heppell discusses what he thinks learning might look like in the year 2016.

Stephen takes the prestigious stage at the Edward Boyle Memorial Lecture in the Royal Society of Arts, to offer his views on future learning and the important role we play in its fruition.

Following Stephen's lecture there is an insightful discussion held between teachers and headteachers.

Here's the whole event from Teachers TV

Inaugural Lab Group event

The Lab group brought together all the UK's leading ICT and learning research groups, back in 2003 (i think?) and the presenters all said a few words to camera. These have found their way to YouTube.

Here are my comments (I was still running Ultralab back then)

Not quite sure what happened to the lip synch!