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A Brief History of the Future of Education
Learning in the Age of Disruption
Ian Jukes, Ryan L. Schaaf
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A Brief History of the Future of Education
Learning in the Age of Disruption
Ian Jukes, Ryan L. Schaaf
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The Future Tense of Teaching in the Digital Age The digital environment has radically changed how and what students need and want to learn, but has educational delivery radically changed? Get ready to be challenged to accommodate today’s learners as opposed to allowing default classroom practices. With its touches of humor and choose-your-own-adventure approach, the book encourages readers to search for interesting, relevant or required material and then jump right in. At its core, readers will:
- Consider predictions about future learning.
- Understand how to leverage nine core learning attributes of digital generations.
- Discover ten critical roles educators can embrace to remain relevant in the digital age.
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1 Beyond âThatâs the Way Weâve Always Done Itâ
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The reason nothing important changes in education is because if one significant change is made, everything would have to change.âTed Sizer
It is amazing how often people embrace doing things the way they have always done them without first carefully examining how or why a process came into use in the first place. We often accept a preexisting mindset because it is the path of least resistance. The mindset about the way educators organize schools is based on decisions made at the time of the horse and buggy, oil lamps, and factory production lines (Lapidos, 2007; Wagner & Dintersmith, 2015). Continuing to operate with that mindset is a classic case of thatâs the way weâve always done it (TTWWADI).
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Schools havenât structurally changed that much in a long time. But the world we live in is no longer the stable and predictable place it once was. Disruptive technologies have ignited an engine of change, and that rate of change appears to be accelerating with each passing day. Radical developments hold profound implications for life as we know it. In an environment of constant and disruptive change, it is critical that we begin to question the rationale behind the TTWWADI mentality in our schools.
A Preamble About Five Monkeys
In his research, Gordon R. Stephenson (1967) finds that TTWWADI was evident in our evolutionary cousinsâmonkeys. Envision that you have an enclosure containing five monkeys. From the top of the enclosure, hang a banana on a string, and place a set of stairs under the banana. Eventually, one of the monkeys will go to the stairs and start to climb toward the bananas. As soon as that monkey touches the bottom stair, you spray all the monkeys in the enclosure with cold water from a fire hose until you drive them away.
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After a while, another monkey makes another attempt for the banana with the same results. Again, as soon as that monkey places its foot on the bottom stair, you spray all the monkeys with ice-cold water from the fire hose until it drives them away. Repeat this behavior until when one of the monkeys eventually attempts to climb the stairs to grab a banana, the other monkeys attack and prevent that monkey from climbing the stairs because they donât want to get sprayed with the cold water from the fire hose. Another attempt, another attack. Another attempt, another attack.
In time, the monkeys all become conditioned, and they understand that if they try to climb the stairs to get the banana, the other monkeys will attack them. Once the monkeys are conditioned, you can put away the cold water and the fire hose. Next, remove one of the original monkeys from the enclosure and replace it with a new one.
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Soon, the new monkey will see the banana and try to climb the stairs to get it. To that monkeyâs shock and horror, all the other monkeys in the enclosure will attack the newest monkey because they do not want anyone to spray them with cold water. After repeated attempts and attacks, the newest monkey also becomes conditioned. The newcomer understands that if it tries to climb the stairs, the others will attack it.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The scene will repeat itself. When the newest monkey tries to climb the stairs to get the banana, all the monkeys, including the first newcomer, attack the newest monkey, punishing it with the greatest of enthusiasm! Likewise, this happens when you replace the third original monkey with a new one and then the fourth and fifth.
Every time the newest monkey tries to climb the stairs, the others attack it. Interestingly, the monkeys that are beating the newest monkey have no idea why they are not permitted to climb the stairs to get a banana, nor why they are beating the newest monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys in the enclosure have ever been sprayed with ice-cold water from the fire hose. Nevertheless, no monkey will ever again attempt to approach the stairs to try to get a banana.
At this juncture, the critical question to ask is, âWhy not?â The answer is, because as far as all the monkeys in the enclosure are concernedâthatâs just the way theyâve always done it. This is the essence of TTWWADI, and our superior human brains do no more to insulate us from this behavior than do the brains of monkeys. (Authorsâ note: No monkeys were harmed in the writing of this book!)
Why We Do the Things We Do
Do you have unconscious habits in your teaching practices? Do you ever stop to think about why you use a particular instructional pedagogy? Do you have the same rituals when you attempt to engage students in their learning? Do you have a routine as to how you start or end your class?
It is astonishing how easy it is for us to embrace doing things the way weâve always done them without stopping to ask, âWhy?â Often, this happens because it is much easier to continue going in the same direction than it is to reexamine the situation and reevaluate a decision or process. With all the effort required to think through an issue, it is all too easy to slip into a preexisting, fixed mindset. We choose to accept things as they are because it is the path of least resistance. In this section, we examine the true story of how Roman chariots dictated the dimensions of our modern railways and even influenced Americaâs space program. This exploration does not specifically relate to education and instruction, but it does crystallize our collective human tendency to live with established practices because itâs easier than changing them.
The Mindset of Railways
Before we reach back to Roman times, letâs start in the middle of the story. In the United States and many other parts of the world, the spacing between the rails on railroad tracks is a set standardâit is exactly 4 feet, 8Âœ inches (1.4351 meters). Now, some people might say 4 feet, 8Âœ inches seems to be a rather odd and seemingly arbitrary number. Why is it 4 feet, 8Âœ inches and not 4 feet, 6 inches or 5 feet, or some other random number? There are many theories, stories, and urban legends about this width, but the story that we like the best (whether it is true or not) is that 4 feet, 8Âœ inches was the track spacing that engineers in England used to build many of the first railroads, and it turns out that it was English expatriates who built most of the first U.S. railroads (Bianculli, 2001).
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The reason England used a rail spacing of 4 feet, 8œ inches is that the same guild that had been building the horse-drawn wagons and handcarts in the prerailroad era in England also built the first English railways. It turns out that 4 feet, 8œ inches is the axle width the English wagon makers used to build the first railroad cars (Bianculli, 2003).
So, a question you might ask is, âWhy did the wagon makers use that particular axle width of 4 feet, 8Âœ inches?â It turns out that they did this because they had to. If they used any axle spacing other than 4 feet, 8Âœ inches, the wagon wheels would almost immediately break on the sides of the established wheel ruts throughout England, which coincidentally also happened to be 4 feet, 8Âœ inches.
This begs the question, âWhere did those old rutted roads in England originate?â It turns out that Imperial Rome made the first long-distance roads in Britainâand most of Western Europe, for that matterâmore than two thousand years ago. They built these roads for their Roman military, and the roads have been in steady use ever since (Bianculli, 2003).
In fact, it turns out that Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts in these first roads; and it also turns out that the axle spacing of these chariots was 4 feet, 8Âœ inches. So, everyone ever since has had to adapt to those ruts to avoid destroying their wheels. Thus, it turns out the United Statesâ standard railroad track spacing of 4 feet, 8Âœ inches actually derives (this is a fact!) from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot from more than two thousand years ago (Bianculli, 2003).
Now some of you might be thinking, But thatâs stupid, thatâs ridiculous, thatâs absurd, and you may be right. But hereâs the thingâspecifications, bureaucracies, institutions, and systems have a natural tendency to solidify in their ways of doing things. Often, they may require people to do things in the same way their predecessors have traditionally done them, despite the fact the world continues to change all around them.
So, in this situation, a question you might find yourself thinking is, What foolâwhat horseâs backsideâcame up with this way of doing things? In the case of the American railways, youâd actually be a lot closer to the truth than you could have ever imagined. Hereâs whyâit turns out Imperial Rome designed its war chariots to be just wide enough to accommodate the width of two horsesâ backsides (Bianculli, 2003).
Indeed, it was a horseâs backside that originally determined the way we continue to do things more than two millennia later. So, now we finally have the answer to the original questionâTTWWADI! Thatâs the way weâve always done it!
Space Travel and Horsesâ Backsides
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The story doesnât end with railroad track spacing and horsesâ backsides. Although NASA has retired the space shuttle program, when we used to watch space shuttles rocketing off their launch pad, there were two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel cell. These were solid rocket boosters, which NASA had made at the ATK Thiokol Propulsion factory in Utah (Bianculli, 2003). If you had talked to the engineers who originally designed the solid rocket boosters many years back, they would have told you quite categorically that they wanted to make those solid rocket boosters a bit larger to get more thrust and, therefore, more lift at launch. The problem was that they had to ship the solid rocket boosters by train, 2,362 miles (3,801 km) from the factory in Utah to the launch site in Florida.
The railroad line from the factory to the launch site ran through various tunnels in the mountains. The tunnels were only slightly wider than the railroad tracks, and, of course, as we already know, those railroad tracks were only as wide as two horsesâ behinds (Bianculli, 2003).
So, what was obviously a major design feature to what was and continues to be one of the worldâs most advanced, sophisticated transportation systemsâwith more than a million moving parts at launchâwas actually influenced more than two thousand years ago by the width of two horsesâ asses.
TTWWADI and School Mindsets
In 1894, The Committee of Ten, a working group of primarily postsecondary educators from the eastern United States, recommended the standardization of the American high school curriculum (National Education Association of the United States, 1894). More than a century on, their recommendations continue to be the foundational principles upon which Americaâs public education system rests (Wagner & Dintersmith, 2015).
At the beginning of the 20th century, agricultural-age thinking gave way to industrial-age thinking. Frederick Winslow Taylorâs (1910) The Principles of Scientific Management became the basis for the modern assembly line. The employers of the time considered the factory model the most advanced form of organizational productivity possible. Not surprising...
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- 1 Beyond âThatâs the Way Weâve Always Done Itâ
- 2 What the Future Holds for Our Students
- 3 Life in the Age of Disruptive Innovation
- 4 The Nine Core Learning Attributes of Digital Generations
- 5 How to Look Back to Move Forward
- 6 Learning in the Year 2038
- 7 New Skills for Modern Times
- 8 New Roles for Educators
- Epilogue
- References and Resources
- Index
- Publisher Note
Normes de citation pour A Brief History of the Future of Education
APA 6 Citation
Jukes, I., & Schaaf, R. (2018). A Brief History of the Future of Education (1st ed.). SAGE Publications. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1485081/a-brief-history-of-the-future-of-education-learning-in-the-age-of-disruption-pdf (Original work published 2018)
Chicago Citation
Jukes, Ian, and Ryan Schaaf. (2018) 2018. A Brief History of the Future of Education. 1st ed. SAGE Publications. https://www.perlego.com/book/1485081/a-brief-history-of-the-future-of-education-learning-in-the-age-of-disruption-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Jukes, I. and Schaaf, R. (2018) A Brief History of the Future of Education. 1st edn. SAGE Publications. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1485081/a-brief-history-of-the-future-of-education-learning-in-the-age-of-disruption-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Jukes, Ian, and Ryan Schaaf. A Brief History of the Future of Education. 1st ed. SAGE Publications, 2018. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.