AOLE Asynchronous Digital competency, Covid 19 opportunity or barrier to learning?

Hello. Welcome to this recorded asynchronous session to my name's

neck. I'll be taking your digital sessions if we haven't

already met.

I'm just saying my wife is me proud Here, look

at their feathers in the background there.

Anyway, today we're not talking about feathers we're gonna be

talking about.

The important thing is facing us all, which is covert

19. I really wanted to discuss today some of the

opportunities and barriers that we're facing.

So obviously the pandemic has accelerated teaching online learning.

This had to go online, which will look at it

a bit more detail.

But learners and teachers now have had to be digitally

confident to engage with education is really alerted Cem politicians

on parents To the importance of this cross cross curricular

skill, many teachers have had to face being digitally competent

because it's impacted their planning.

They have to now have been thinking in the back

of their mind about parachute plans, for if things need

to go online.

So in terms of some context, then obviously we all

know this quite crazy.

To look at some of these figures seems like a

long time ago now, but obviously with locked down April

3rd in 2020 there was 91% of students across the

world. We're not in school for some, it seems quite

obvious, but I just think that's absolutely standing.

You know that there's a huge gap in knowledge and

skills acquisition, but never before have we had such a

mass education be off at the same time.

Obviously, if we faced wartime in modern education has never

been a time where everyone has bean off school and

actually Children wanting to go to school.

If anything, like my kids by the end off locked

that So obviously this is accelerated digital processes in education,

a lot of home learning teachers recording sessions on putting

things online.

So all education is being forced to adapt to a

new delivery model.

And you've seen that and have to experience that when

you've been in university.

So obviously they projected forecasts for remote learning have been

realized in a matter of days, really got months there,

but overnight educators have had to adapt all their plans

to online.

I've got a picture there.

We work a lot with the number of global schools

we work with the school in Rwanda, and they've actually

haven't got the infrastructure that we have here in Wales

or the UK so a lot off their teachings gone

on to radio, which, you know, as much as we

complain and we talk about barriers, you know, I think

we need to think how fortunate we are in that,

that we do have quite good connectivity.

We can actually do this.

The main thing that we face is the traditional face

to face.

Teaching has being impossible.

So this is completely impressed.

And, you know, two billion of worldwide teachers and learners

have shifted online in a matter of short weeks.

Kind of sounds really obvious, but it's worth just unpacking

and reflecting on this and the impact potentially on future

education. So in England don't know if you noticed this,

this was on Twitter.

Quite a lot has gone quite a noticed.

Whales haven't followed this, but I wouldn't I would imagine

they probably follow suit relatively soon.

She is now a legal requirement to provide remote teaching

on learning.

So all schools in England.

If something similar happened again, you could.

A school could face charges if they don't provide remote

teaching, which is has huge consequences which will look at

so remote school has taken.

All sorts of forms I've mentioned earlier has been a

resurgence in educational radio, especially in Africa.

T V A lot in America Thio educational TV channels,

YouTube. Many parents turn into YouTube to try and educate

their kids.

Uh, preloaded mobile devices being sent out a lot in

secondary schools text message in again with secondary schools have

got a number of friends who are secondary teachers, and

they've had to do a lot of teaching through what's

app. I definitely would not fancy that, but, you know,

places like I've been lacking after work in Spain, I

know that they've been sending books out to students.

They've had to read paper work sheets for those that

don't have access to really every good remote connective ity.

Leave that to adopt this In the US, it's been

reported that 20% were missing in action, so they did

not have access to this, which is quite it's quite

a standing in in modern age, But we're gonna unpack

this a bit more individual detail now.

Yeah, the thing that's really interesting is that we're told

that We're all in this together, but a cell when

engender XY here and they argue throughout that actually were

not on.

Not everyone has the same access.

So there's there's no one homogenous experience of home school

in just with us all here in this call.

You know, we all have our own experiences of what

lock down was like what actually learning was like and

a lot of pupils within primary schools will have this

completely different experience.

It's being marketed by a lot of education technology companies

is that we're in this all together wall going through.

This is a globalized process, but a cell winning Jan

drik say that it's actually it is, ah, worldwide mess.

So let's look into this in a bit more detail.

So we're obviously all aware off the huge negative impacts

from the barriers obviously, accommodation, retail, pubs, hospitality, manufacturing, tourism

of being hit massively.

You're listening to this and you're probably thinking, What has

this got to do with that primary education?

Well, I think that's got a lot to do from

education to how we're gonna prepare young learners for a

future workforce.

We're gonna look at this in more detail next week.

But there's a lot of politicians have outlined, and if

you see them, news recently about Re Skilling.

So there's been a mass movement to remote working, so

people have been forced to work at home and jobs

that involve human contact I've had to completely change.

So covered 19 overnight has made us rethink what industries

in the future will actually look like.

It's actually over this pandemic.

There's beena new sub genre off and workers if you

look on things like linked in If you look at

recruitment sites now there's new tabs for gig workers.

I hadn't heard about this until I've been researching this

lecture. But a gig workers some of the works with

their computer each day.

They can't do their job without a computer, so a

good example would be an uber driver or delivery driver.

Well, right on the cyclist is the word I need,

so they couldn't do their job without the computer, So

they need digital competence to be able to engage with

this matter of employment, so they need skills to survive

with this type of employment.

So the question that I want to pose is do

we need to educate young people differently for these new

types of roles.

Do we need to start to rethink what the employment

workforce will look like in 20 or 30 years time

when the Children you're gonna be teaching will be going

out into the workforce in 2030 years?

Time? Do they need different skills that being, they're being

taught now to actually exist and be relevant in 30

years time?

We know that the future employment of employment and we're

gonna look at this in a lot more detail next

week. But with digitization on a I a lot of

jobs are going to be replaced by computers, robots.

We know that it's gonna be a digital based economy.

So to ignore things like digital competence could be a

huge threat.

We do know that social interaction is really valued, and

since the pandemic and we've had that little break between

lockdowns, how important we in value social interaction, So there's

definitely still a space for that.

But as we know that there's a number of jobs

have just being made completely redundant due to this pandemic.

So how do we re skill workers who are educated

one system for their industry to another.

A really good example of this fun.

If you sing on news recently, a number of steel

workers are from Port Talbot.

I've obviously lost their jobs, and they've just bean retrain

and re skill into this.

They've got the skills as an engineer.

They're now retraining this cyber engineers to prevent any hacking

for places like Amazon or Banks.

They still got those engineering skills, but they re applying

them to work in the digital world.

To start to think about, you know, to re skill

these workers or, as many people argue, is that at

primary school they should be taught a riel wide range

off skill set to meet huge demands of different roles.

I don't think we're gonna have many people who have

the same job or same career.

Maybe a czar, parent's or grandparent's did.

Where you train is a butcher and you'd be a

butcher for the rest of your life.

Now it's estimated we'd have five or six careers as

things will keep changing rapidly.

And this is this growth and change technology.

Be driving a lot of this.

What is for sure, I will be talking about this

next week is a lot of low order jobs such

as manufacturing will be lost to a I and robots.

Is it?

It is just cheaper to do that.

Also, we might see a recalibration of social values and

social norms on a really important to being placed on

health. Obviously, we've seen any chess banners and hearts and

rainbows everywhere on a real value for health, which obviously

is really, really important that this, as we've seen in

the heart of the last curriculum, well being health, being

a key driver, this could be something that is pushed

by politicians and just by society itself in the educating

young people, the importance of health.

So how does this all impact on primary education be

really interested?

Your thoughts?

You might think that what is Nick on about to

be really start thinking about this, or actually that you

do agree that we need to start thinking about this

on the importance of digital technology.

One thing that's come about, unfortunately, is just a widening

of a poverty gap.

As you can see bodies figures here from 2020 there's

been 7.1% increase in poverty and hunger, unfortunately, is estimated.

This gap is only set to grow.

So obviously I just mentioned a lot of learning is

almost learning is gone within lock down to remote learning,

as G 20 argue, is not totally inclusive because not

all people have the same access to tech, not to

technology. So to engage with technology in these times in

2020 you need to be able to access technology to

engage with education.

This actually widens the gap due to lack of skills

and connective ity, so people like the G 20 have

been calling for.

This is a time that we can use an opportunity

to reform.

It's argued that we should be able to have universal

standards where everyone have access to a mobile or a

laptop so they can engage with any work or remote

learning. I'll be really interested to hear about what other

areas of policy should be off should or could be

reformed or any ideas.

You have to maybe address this poverty gap within education

again. A cell when engender it argue, is that the

pandemic has actually highlighted this.

Raised at raising the question of digital inequalities prior to

the pandemic.

There's plenty of evidence confirm the homework app in the

students that don't have technology actually can't engage with things

like homework that have been set on seesaw by their

class teachers.

They don't have the technology or home at home.

How can they engage with it?

So the pandemic a shine a light on a range

of disparities, divides and disadvantages?

Associating with digital technology on now, as G 20 argue,

is a time we should really be looking to address

that. So digital poverty, something that comes up a lot

and it will become up even more than the news.

I think I mean, just to think.

And I'm falling from my own experience from my own

Children, from my friends Children.

You may have a few device in your house, but

if you've got brothers and sisters and your brother's using

the one device, you're not gonna be able to study

or engage with the remote learning, which causes a problem.

It could be poor Internet connectivity, the lack of mobile

connectivity that have enough money on your phone to engage

with this remote learning.

It may be that you have a number at your

parents around skills.

So if your primary pupil I know that I am

just from my Children's school.

There were huge issues with seesaw, with Children getting onto

their Google accounts.

Google education accounts.

Ah, lot off Parents didn't know how to access and

to work these devices on and worked with these platforms

so their Children actually couldn't engage with the learning that

was being set.

There's also this unbalanced distribution of education, so we don't

all have access the same equipment and resources at home.

So I'll be right again, really interested to hear what

could be done to level the playing field.

Obviously you've bean through and you've experienced in your experience

and now remote learning firsthand.

So I've been really into

AOLE Asynchronous Digital competency, Covid 19 opportunity or barrier to learning?

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