Ulearn+2011+Keynotes

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Simon Breakspear - [|‘Edupreneurship’] Blogpost

Simon Breakspear is recognised internationally as a leading thinker on educational futures, innovation and change leadership. In this keynote presentation from ULearn11, Simon says that for too long technology has been the driving force of change rather than the pedagogy. He urges us towards action and to become creative innovators. He asks whose future are we educating students for – theirs or ours, and are we preparing students for a future that no longer exists?

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ULearn11 keynote speaker Dr Jack Bacon is a noted futurist and a technological historian. In this presentation he asserts that humans have been doubling what we know and what we can do every 30 years since the Renaissance, and the exponent of our acceleration is showing many signs of picking up in many facets of society. Dr Bacon tells us that it appears that human understanding of that universe now going through an explosive new creation of its own. media type="custom" key="11082386" =Graeme Aitken: Innovation - Lamborghini or Lemon? = media type="custom" key="11149230"

Stephen Heppell is at the heart of a global revolution in learning space design. In this ULearn11 EDtalk Stephen explains why he believes that the 'structures and strictures of education will be swept aside by the engagement, seduction, delight, passion and astonishment of a new learning world'. Stephen shares his conviction that if we want to know what education will look like in the future, we only need to look at what is happening in the online world now. media type="custom" key="11082506"