Learnit Live - Agenda The future of learning is now MONDAY 8 MARCH 2021
Building Back Better: The future of learning is now COVID-19 upended everything: homes, classrooms, communication, technology, schools and funding. McKinsey estimates that Covid learning loss will equate to 1% of US GDP every year, the Education Endowment Fund predicts learning loss could erase a decade of efforts to close gaps between low and high income kids, and UNESCO has raised the alarm about the 24 million students who may never return to education. But the pandemic, and the world’s largest unplanned technology experiment, also created an unprecedented opportunity for real, transformational change. Day one of LearnIt Live showcases systems leaders who are using this crisis to build back better and drive system-level change. TUESDAY 9 MARCH 2021
K-12: Inclusion, well-being and tech are no longer optional Covid-19 cast a bright and unforgiving light on educational inequality, from who has devices and connectivity to who has space to work and access to adults to support home learning. Successful and equitable remote learning requires time and investment, and what works for one school community needs adapting for another. Well-being and socio-emotional learning have overtaken content delivery and narrow versions of achievement as key priorities, a widely praised reframing. But will this change of priority hold? On day two of Learnit Live, we’ll be showcasing K-12 school leaders supporting their learners and teachers so that success becomes the new normal, accessible to all. WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH 2021
Higher Education: the reckoning and the renaissance Covid-19 has accelerated higher education’s reckoning. International student enrollment has plummeted, and without the social aspect of campus life, high-priced online education has become less appealing. Meanwhile, employers are removing the need for a university degree and models of online skill-based training and learning are flourishing. Slow-to-change higher ed institutions have had to adapt or risk dying, while innovative new models of learning and recognising learning are emerging. Is this the beginning of the end for higher education as we know it? On day three, Learnit Live will put higher ed under the microscope. THURSDAY 11 MARCH 2021
Learning and Work: meaningful, purposeful work for all ‘Lifelong learning’ has long been common parlance for educators. It has now gone mainstream as the barriers between work and learning have collapsed. Surging unemployment means workers need to reskill and upskill while continued automation and warp speed technological change have driven a need for all of us to constantly adapt and learn. A different work and learning ecosystem is