NO EASY ROAD TO FREEDOM?

1. NO EASY ROAD TO FREEDOM? Building tomorrow's workforce and learner/teacher capabilities through Agile Pedagogy in Education

2. TO DO By the end of this session you will Explain the Aim – 10 minutes 2 3 4 1 Understand why Scrum in schools is needed. Present the Model – 10 minute Be introduced to a bit of educational theory. Implement the Model – 60 minutes See how it can work. Be taught in one way. Learn in another. Create something. Do the Retrospective – 10 minutes Talk about tea (because half of us is British).

3. CRUMMY EDUCATION What does it look like today?

4. WHAT’S WRONG WITH EDUCATION? And why? Main suspects 1 2 3 Ecological and economic crisis, crises arising from the commodification, dehumanisation, corporatisation, globalisation and technologisation of education. Paradigm Shift It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein Example text Igniting the Tribes

5. PARADIGM SHIFT IGNITED IMPOSED Formal qualification Sedentary Rigid Hierarchical Reductionism Conventions Competition Linearity Closed Boring Local Theoretical Slow Reproductive Transmissive Reactionary Ugly

6. PARADIGM SHIFT Rebellion IGNITED IMPOSED Competencies Mobile Adaptable Heterarchical Holism Empiricism Collaboration Modularity Open Joyful Global Applied Quick Creative Constructivist Responsive Beautiful Formal qualification Sedentary Rigid Hierarchical Reductionism Conventions Competition Linearity Closed Boring Local Theoretical Slow Reproductive Transmissive Reactionary Ugly

7. SCHOOLING PRODUCES THE WRONG SKILLS? Zhao (2012) from diversity to conformity Individual differences Multiple intelligences Cultural diversity Curiosity, passion, creativity Schooling Employable skills?

8. SCRUM/AGILE PEDAGOGY Nikolic & Royle Individual differences Multiple intelligences Cultural diversity Curiosity, passion, creativity Scrum/Agile Pedagogy, adapts to schooling. Doesn’t revolutionize it but gives the space for teachers to feel safe and children to thrive. It transforms existing practice. Enhanced human talents

9. SCRUMMY EDUCATION Bridging the Gap – Going Agile

10. HOW SCRUM CAN HELP?

11. What is the product in education? And who are the clients? So much more than that! Capability Agency/freedom Team work Learning Project based learning. Defined real life roles

12. When threat to the self is low, experience can be perceived in differentiated fashion and learning can proceed. When threat to the self is low, experience can be perceived in differentiated fashion and learning can proceed. Self-initiated learning which involves the whole person of the learner—feelings as wells as intellect—is the most lasting and pervasive. THERE’S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN? Why Scrum? Is there anything else? Carl Rogers FREEDOM TO LEARN (1969) Teacher as a Facilitator 2 3 4 1 I can’t teach anybody anything, I can only provide an enviroiment in which people can learn. Agancy Learning is facilitated when the student participates responsibly in the learning process. Independence, creativity, and self-reliance are all facilitated when self-criticism and self-evaluation are basic and evaluation by others is of secondary importance. Significant learning takes place when the subject matter is perceived by the student as having relevance for his own purposes. Capability & Project Based Learning The most socially useful learning in the modern world is the learning of the process of learning, a continuing openness to experience and incorporation into oneself of the process of change. Wholism Self-initiated learning which involves the whole person of the learner—feelings as wells as intellect—is the most lasting and pervasive.

13. THERE’S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN? Why Scrum? Is there anything else? Metacognition 6 7 5 The most socially useful learning in the modern world is the learning of the process of learning, a continuing openness to experience and incorporation into oneself of the process of change. Safety When threat to the self is low, experience can be perceived in differentiated fashion and learning can proceed. Significant learning takes place when the subject matter is perceived by the student as having relevance for his own purposes. Capability & Project Based Learning Much significant learning is acquired through doing.

14. How to transform schooling? Meanigful participation 1 2 3 Participatory culture formats. Invitation. Multiple paths. Open Space. Evaluation. Negotiation. Facilitaton skills. Structured colleboration Kanban. Visualisation of WIP. Transparency. Self-organization. Self-aware. Planning. Evaluation. Active Creation Active bodies and active minds. Scrum.

16. KANBAN University of Belgrade

18. THE WORLD IS WAITING, ARE WE READY? We know it’s not working We have the tools to transform it We’re many and we’re connected Yes, we’re ready!

19. MODEL 1 Make tea traditional way Traditionaltransmission method where knowledge and activity is mostly teacher led. Purpose is closely connected to school curriculum. LFNPP Teas of the world. Lesson objectives To learn more about teas and the culture of tea To learn about how tea is made in different countries To produce a piece of factual writing that compares and contrasts types of tea. Individual and pair work using materials provided. (no computer access) KEY QUESTIONS . How did you feel?

20. MODEL 2 Make tea Scrum way • Scenario: You have opened a tea house in a market town in the UK. As part of your sales drive and promotion campaign you want to get people more interested in tea making as a pursuit rather than the “bag in the cup” kind of instant drink it has become. Getting people interested in tea making will also help you to shift a lot of your products and world teas/ tea paraphanalia / books etc. • You have decided to produce leaflets for your customers on the following teas. • Green tea • Russian Caravan tea • Morrocan tea • Japanese tea ceremony • Chai • English tea • As a minimum the leaflets/information sheets should have: these features • The history/origin of the specific tea/ceremony. • Interesting facts of the “did you know” variety • A how to make it section • Price list and opening times • List of upcoming thematic events where your salon will feature the tea / ceremony Create product backlog Create sprint plan Carry out sprint 20 min sprint

21. MODEL 2 Make tea Scrum way Create product backlog Create sprint plan Carry out sprint 20 min sprint YOUR FIRST SPRINT IS 20 MINUTES LONG. Remember … Your scrum team has x members so you have roughly20 minutes to burn up. Roughly because not all of it will be productive time.

22. TEA TIME Question 1 2 3 Which way did you prefer and why? Question What did you learn? Question Do you think it is a good idea? Would you like your children to be taught this way? Who would benefit from being taught this way?

23. YUMMY SCHOOL www.scrummyschool.com References: Agile (2001) system. http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html Accessed 14th August 2012-08-15  Bandura, A. (2001). Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective, Annual Review of Psychology: 52, 1–26. Rogers, C. (1969) Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become (1sted) Columbus: Ohio, Charles Merrill Scrum Principles http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/scrum_101 accessed Aug 14th 2012 Zhao, Y. (2012) World Class Learners: California: Corwin/Sage

24. Karl Royle Jasmina Nikolić + = k.royle@wlv.ac.uk @karlroyle jasminanikolic@gmail.com @jazilla