(cc) Anne Bartlett-Bragg,
Headshift, August 2009
The Future of Learning:
Smarter, Simple, Social

Topics to explore
Smarter
Simple Impact
Social
Solutions
[ Agenda ]

Scenario 1:
Digital technology is everywhere; it is embedded in
everything around you from city streets, to buildings, to
flagpoles and bus stops.
These technologies can talk to each other and to the
technologies and sensors you have embedded in your
clothes.
As a result, your environment can adapt to you and
connect with you and know everything about you -
where you are, how you feel, what you’ve done, what
you might want to do...
from “2020 and beyond”
Future Lab 2007

On demand
Faster
Smarter
Bytes
Ubiquitous
Self-
directed
Just-in-time Autonomous

What will be the
impact on
organisational learning?

Impact
Dislocated
information
chunks Incomplete
cognitive
scaffold
Critical
reflection
missing

What’s the solution?

Individual Reflection
sense-making Action
Collection
Creativity
Innovation
Group Collaboration
sense-making Collective
intelligence

Clouds Devices
Information
Simple
RSS
Storage

What will be the
impact on
organisational learning?

Impact
Unlimited
access to
information Simplicity
Intelligent
recommendations
Digital literacy

What’s the solution?

Device
management Single logins
Intelligent Recommendations
search Sophisticated RSS

Scenario 2:
By 2020, digital technology is
embedded and distributed in
most objects.
All personal artefacts - your
keys, clothes, shoes, notebook
and newspaper - have devices
embedded within them which
can communicate with each
other.
As a result, we will interact
with these technologies in
ways which are more
seamlessly and invisibly
integrated into normal from “2020 and beyond”
activities. Future Lab 2007

Social Participatory
Personalised
Networked
Engaged

What will be the
impact on
organisational learning?

Impact
Self-directed
autonomous
Contextualised
Reputation

What’s the solution?

What is the future role of the educator?

• Trusted resource in a social learning network
• Guiding and advising
• Facilitating establishment of networks
• Empowering
• Supporting personal landscape development

“The best way to predict
the future is to build it”
Douglas Adams

Re-Frame:
the way we consider the nature of learning

Re-Think:
our concept and relationship with information

Re-Invigorate:
our practice - re-engage with our purpose

Questions?
annebb@headshift.com
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