The Future of Learning in a Digital World

Today I had the pleasure of attending a fully online conference, “Fokus på framtidens lärare i nationell konferens - NGL2019”, organized by Högskolan Dalarna. Besides the fact that this kind of setup fits me like a glove, I was especially looking forward to seeing Peter Parnes give a lecture, which I hadn’t done before. And I wasn’t disappointed.

First and foremost I’d like to thank the organizers for a well-executed event. With interesting guests and an exciting program, I think there were far too few participants relative to the content. Especially considering that you wouldn’t even have had to get out of bed to take part. Or have had to pay a single krona. With the ability to sit comfortably, grab a coffee whenever you want, and simply do something else when something doesn’t interest you. But maybe there are other things that entice when you get to TRAVEL to a conference. ;)

Peter Parnes - The future of learning in a digital world

I’ll keep this short in this post and let Peter’s lecture (which I cheekily “accidentally” ripped) speak for itself. It’s above all extremely liberating to hear people talk about digitalization who really know and understand technology and digitalization. I mean, for real.
Peter is one of the few — in my book — who can also do that in the context of ‘school and education’.

In the lecture Peter talks, among other things, about formal and informal learning, lifelong learning, challenges with learning in Sweden, AI and learning, VR, makerspace, game technology, Khan Academy and much more. If you want to get a sense of what digitalization in schools can be, beyond a bunch of digital devices that in practice are mostly expensive typewriters, give this lecture a little over 45 minutes.

Länk till konferensen : https://www.du.se/ngl2019

Länk till Peter Parnes blogg : http://www.peterparnes.com/blog