The Snowflake Effect
The Future of Learning:
for ALL 6.8 Billion of us!
CCITA 2009
MÉRIDA, YUCATÁN, MÉXICO
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Wayne Hodgins
Snowflake,
Strategic Futurist, Velocity Made Good Inc.
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A new perspective is worth
80 IQ points
- Alan Kay
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Prepare to get much smarter!
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WARNING: Time Warp Ahead!!
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Seeing Patterns & Trends:
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The Snowflake Effect
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The Snowflake Effect
If this is so obvious
If this always has and always will be
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Then why do we live in a world
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designed for the opposite???

Mass Production
Mass Personalization
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The Snowflake Effect
The Ideal End State is getting:
Just the right CONTENT, to
Just the right PERSON, at
Just the right TIME, on
Just the right DEVICE, in
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Just the right CONTEXT, in
Just the right WAY ………
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The Snowflake Effect
Ma S S
P eR S O NA L i ZA iON T
It’s not about “e” it’s about me!!
 Personalized Learning Experiences for every person every day
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 all 6.8 billion of us!! (and counting)
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 Audiences of one: Billions of Audiences
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Pandora and the Music Genome Project
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Personalization via 3D Printing
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THE FUTURE IS A
MONSTROUS &
MARVELOUS
M A SH UP !
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That’s SOOOooooo yesterday Dad!
Wayne’s definition:
 A mash up is a unique new assembly of individual
things from more than one source into a single
integrated whole.
 Mashups are for EVERYTHING!
 Music, TV, video
 Maps
 Content
 Wiki, blogs
 Searching/finding
 Tag Clouds
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 Competencies, people
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Mashups simplified:
You already know the model
Think Lego blocks!

Learning Objects
Fad or Future?
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CONTENT Object Content Model 0
Common Content Application Specific Profiles
CONTENT ASSETS
“Raw” Information E nabling T erminal
L earning L earning
Data & Blocks
Media
O bject
Elements
Audio
O bject
Text Procedure
Principle
illustration
Concept
Process
ENABLING TERMINAL
Objective Objective
Fact
Animation Overview
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Summary
Simulation
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Repurposed with Permission: W.Hodgins ©1992 Learnativity

Learning Object Content Model 0
Common Content Application Specific Profiles
CONTENT ASSETS
“Raw” Information
E nabling T erminal Collections
L earning L earning
(Courses, Stories,)
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Data & Blocks
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Media
O bject O bject
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Elements
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Text Procedure
Principle
Process
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Procedure
Principle
Concept
Objective Theme
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Concept
Summary
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Fact
Animation Overview Fact
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Simulation Enabling Terminal
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Repurposed with Permission: W.Hodgins ©1992 Learnativity

Future of Learning Objects?
 Reusable Learning Objects are NOT the goal
 Stop counting, start using
 Manual search creation  Automated contextual assembly
 Demand based Mashups
 Objectives based  Context based
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Future Shifts
 Design for Masses  Design for Uniqueness
 Planned Readiness  Readiness for the Unexpected
 Categorization  Personalization
 Scarcity  Abundance
 Invention  Discovery
 Mass products  Mashups
 Products  Services
 Teachers vs Learners  Tearners
 Rigid Brains  Plastic Brains
 Nouns  Verbs
 Design-Build-Use  Design – Use
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Linear  Exponential
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 Left Brain  Right Brain
 Searching  Finding
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Flapping vs. Flying
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