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Future trends of general education , internet and social media in Finland year 2023. ITK14 Aulanko Otava Folk School Kari A. Hintikka nethunt@Twitter. Background of the SOMY project. Finnish schools have introduced social media rapidly and widely during the past few years
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Futuretrends of general education, internet andsocial media in Finland year 2023 ITK14 Aulanko Otava Folk School Kari A. Hintikka nethunt@Twitter
Background of the SOMY project • Finnishschoolshaveintroduced social media rapidly and widelyduring the pastfewyears • Thesepilotsaresteeredby a national social media coordinationproject for Finnish general education, SOMY • SOMY coordination is fundedby the Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE) and carried out byOtava Folk School and Jyväskylä EducationalConsortium • Part of the SOMY weconduct a predictionreportabout internet and schools in the year 2023
eDelfoi as a method • Our main method is the eDelfoiresearchtool, which is based on the Delphi method • eDelfoiis a multi-purposequestionnaire for gathering a widevariety of opinionsconcerningpossiblefuturepathsrelating to a desiredtheme • The Delphi methoditself is a systematic, interactiveforesightmethodwhichrelies on a panel of anonymous, independentexperts as a form of collectiveintelligence • The main benefit of eDelfoi is thatitproducesprobable and innovativevisions and variouspaths to the futureincludingcollectiveevaluationsregardingthem • The eDelfoitoolwasdevelopedby Otava Folk High School and FutureResearch Center of Turku School of Economics in Finland.
Basic structure of eDelfoiquestion Thesis / claim / question Background info Several Interactive Answerintypes Realtimeresults of everyanswers Dialog and commenting
Goals of SOMY predictionresearch • Our main researchquestionsare: • 1) Whatkind of pedagogicalmodelsareemerging with social media? • 2) Whatbenefitsdo social media bring to the quality of learning? • OureDelfoiresearchproject is based on foursets of questions: • 1) Learning and pedagogy • 2) Educationmaterials and learningmethods • 3) Authorisationof information and • 4) The futureschoolenvironment • Thismeans 40 predictions for the year 2023 • TherewereFinnish 33 experts of • Researchers • Teachers and principals for social media pilotschools • Social media innovators and threndsetters • Public sector • Education and learning business
Thesis, an example: Whenpupilsstartschool in the year 2023 (in Finland), 25 % of themwillgraduate to professionswhichdonotexist in 2023 Learning for futureprofessions +++ ++ + +/- - -- --- Desirability --- -- - +/- + ++ +++ Probability Background: Tony Wagner in New York Times 31.3.2013: “Need a job? Inventit”
Expertsstronglyagreedthat in the 2023 mightbeimpossible to educatepupils to labour market of the year 2033 • It is important to findskillswhihareneeded in the future, evenmaybenotimportant in presenttime, examples: • Biohacking • Data mining and crawling • Spatialthinking and patternrecognition • Coordinating social networks
Whichactors and theirrelationshipare the mostimportant in Finland todayyear 2013 for general education and learning?
Whichactors and theirrelationshipare the mostimportant in Finland in the year 2023 for general education and learning? • School is in centralrole for general education and learning • Differentsectors in everyfield of Finland formclear and tightnetworks • Pupilsand their social networks • Public sector • Teacher as an institutionalactor with her / hisorganizations • Allthesenetworkshaveimpact to school • Institutionshave a big role
Whichactors and theirrelationshipare the mostimportant in Finland in the year 2023 for general education and learning? LUONNOS
Whichactors and theirrelationshipare the mostimportant in Finland in the year 2023 for general education and learning? • According to experts, therecouldbe dramaticchanges • Decreasing: • The role of schoolitself as a concept and place • The role of publicsector and otherinstitutions • Increasing: • Ownskills of pupils, their social networks and social media – outside of school • (afternewest PISA results and dramaticdropping of Finland, itwasexplainedthat mobile devices and social media killsconcetration of pupils) • Learning material is referred to teacherbutlearningtoolheavily to pupils
What is the importance of currentschoollessonsubjects in the year 2023? Natural Sciences CitizenSkills Creativity
Whatis the importance of currentschoollessonsubjects in the year 2023? • Important: • Mathematics • Languages • Practicalcivil and societyskills (Physicaleducations, History, Health education, Civicand citizenship, View of life) • Creative subjectswasconsideredmoreimportantthanmost of naturalsciences • Stronglydecreasing: • Religion and Swedish • (Long debate in Finland aboutSwedish as a mandatorylessonsubject)
Thesis: Evaluate the importance of followingmethods and skills of pupils in general education on year 2023
Thesis: Evaluate the relevance of followingmethods and skillsof pupils in general education on year 2023 • All the suggested (new) methods and skillweregihglyranked • Among the mostimportant (new) skills for pupils in general education on year2023 (in Finland) mightbe: • Collectiveintelligence (25) • Internationality and international co-operation and exchange (24) • (Civil) participation (22) • Discoverylearning(22) • ArgumeningSkills(21) • Dialogy(21) • Collective Learning (21)
Thesis: In year 2017 OECD mightlaunch new PISA-likeresearchstudyingmetaskills, likeproblemsolving, and Finland dropsomewhere to place30/65
The current PISA measuresquitetraditionalskills • The new PISA-typeresearch is just a concept in ourresearch – not the fact • Expertspredictedthatmeasuringskillswhicharemorecomplexthanexisting PISA, likecreativeproblemsolving, the placement of Finland mightbemuchworsethan the placementthan in PISA 2013
Thesis: In the year 2023 bothpupil and adultdonotrely on theirmemorybut just googlingthings and asking in sosial media +++ ++ + +/- - -- --- Desirability --- -- - +/- + ++ +++ Probability
Thesis: In the year 2023 bothpupil and adultdonotrely on theirmemorybut just googlingthings and asking in sosial media • Dependance of machines, software and internet services is growingrapidly • In Finland, the ability to read is decreasingrapidly, specially with boys • Whatifpeoplecannothandletheir daily life without the Internet and itssearchengines?
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