Wikinomics and the Future of Education
A keynote speech by Anthony D. Williams at Case Western University's President's Symposium on the Collaborative Technology and the Future of Education
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- Slide 1: Wikinomics and the
Future of Education
Anthony Williams
Co-Author of Wikinomics
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- Slide 2: Wikinomics - 21 Languages
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- Slide 3: The Rise of Self Organization
70 M
June 2005
10 M
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- Slide 4: The Power of Collaborative Communities
Blogger.com beats CNN.com
vs.
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- Slide 5: The Power of Collaborative Communities
Myspace.com beat MTV.com
vs.
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- Slide 6: The Power of Collaborative Communities
Wikipedia.org beats Britannica.com
vs.
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- Slide 7: Wikipedia: New Possibilities for Collective Action
2 million English language
articles
15X encyclopedia Britannica
200+ languages
1 million + editors
70,000 regular contributors
9th most visited site on the Web
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- Slide 8: Acquiring External Ideas & Innovation
An eBay for innovation
How do you create a vibrant marketplace where you
leverage other people's talents, ideas and assets
quickly and move on?
P&G’s Larry Huston: “Alliances and joint ventures
don't open up the spirit of capitalism within the
company. They're vestiges of the central planning
approach when instead you need free market
mechanisms.”
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- Slide 9: Multi-Billion Dollar Linux Ecosystem
LINUX
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- Slide 10: Turning Consumers into Producers
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- Slide 11: Open Sourcing the Genome
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- Slide 12: The Age of Participation
Age of
Participation
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- Slide 13: The New Talent Equation
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- Slide 14: Web 2.0: Broadband, Mobile, Pervasive
LEGACY 2.0
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- Slide 15: You Can Program the Internet
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- Slide 16: True Multimedia: the 3D Internet
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- Slide 17: The Internet of Things: The “Beyond Microwave”
Internet-enabled microwave
Swipe product barcode
“knows” settings for 4,000
different products
Updates data via the Internet
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- Slide 18: The Thing: “Tag” Any Object With A 2D Bar Code
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- Slide 19: The Thing: Browsing the Physical World
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- Slide 20: Mobility: Rise of the Global Mobile Web
100 million
handsets in sub-
Saharan Africa
520 million
handsets in China
3.1 billion users
worldwide
Rising to over 4
billion by 2010
97% of Tanzanians
say they can access
a mobile phone
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- Slide 21: Digital/Physical Convergence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathanvlarocca/310472325/in/photostream
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- Slide 22: Geospatiality
A Platform for Global Problem Solving
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- Slide 23: Geospatiality: Wiki City Rome
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- Slide 24: Geospatiality: Tag Your World On The Go
Otetsudai Networks: Mobile temporary workers
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- Slide 25: The Digital Natives
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- Slide 26: Boom, Bust and Echo
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- Slide 27: School Enrollment
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- Slide 28: Global N-Gen Population
Under 25 Population
(thousands)
(N-Gen in India + China) =
9.5 x (N-Gen in U.S. and Canada)
© New Paradigm 2008 Source: United Nations 28
- Slide 29: The World: According to Land Area
© New Paradigm 2008 Source: Worldmapper 29
- Slide 30: The World: Number of Children Under 15 (2004)
© New Paradigm 2008 Source: Worldmapper 30
- Slide 31: The N-Gen Wants the Internet
Which would you rather do?
* Significantly higher than for Xers/Boomers
© New Paradigm 2008 Source: 2007 New Paradigm Global Study (Q825) 31
- Slide 32: The N-Gen Life Without Technology
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- Slide 33: The N-Gen Life Without Technology
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- Slide 34: A Generation of Content Creators
% Regularly Add or Change Things Online
95% 94%
81%
75% 78%
71% 69%
64% 67% 64% 64%
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- Slide 35: The N-Gen and Democracy
Interactive models of political communication and a more genuine role
in democracy
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- Slide 36: The N-Gen Mind
Digital technologies impact brain function
Perception and cognitive abilities
Skill acquisition
Learning
Empathy, altruism and other
fundamental human traits
How does growing up digital influence
social, interpersonal and consumer
behavior?
Implications for marketing and
management
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- Slide 37: Education 2.0
Education 2.0
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- Slide 38: Web 2.0 in Education
Blog Shared Bookmarks Wiki
Ideas & Comments Co-developed resource Shared Documents
Personal Attractor Research/Look up Status/Policies/etc.
RSS Feeds and Tags Act as Linking Mechanism
Social Networking Feed Reader Forum
Search & Find People Updates in one place Question & Answer
Bonds over distance Quick scan Discussion Point
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- Slide 39: Disseminating Ideas Through Blogs and RSS
Source: Richard Dennison, http://richarddennison.wordpress.com/
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- Slide 40: Authenticity: Redefining How You Communicate
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- Slide 41: Structured Team Work & Wiki Knowledge Bases
Source: http://cases2.com
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- Slide 42: Wiki Collaboration Process Model
Source:
Intellipedia
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- Slide 43: Curriki: Creating An Open Source Curriculum
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- Slide 44: Transforming Educational Administration
Could you wiki your
organization?
Widen input into strategy and
operations?
Capture the knowledge of a
retiring workforce?
Marshal resources in a crisis?
Harness intelligence, wherever it
resides?
Cut down on email?
Have fun?
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- Slide 45: Connecting Students with Social Networks
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- Slide 46: The Rich User Profile
Work Activity
John Smith Online
March 11
Client meeting with Acme Co.
March 10
Completed project for Senior Management
Team
Project Rating:
Feedback: 1 report, 2 sr. clients
March 9
New Business connection with Jane Doe
March 7
Updated product specification sheet for Widget
Recommendations Performance Rating
Skills Groups
• Enterprise 2.0
• Photoshop Users
• Custom Car Collectors
Current Project My Location
Customer Segmentation
Duration: 18 days
End Dates: March 28, 2008
Project Lead: Tess Drake
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- Slide 47: Educational Talent Markets
Staff/Students see all projects
requiring people
Staff/Students apply through
transparent, simple process
Managers/Teachers choose
based on rich social network
profiles
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- Slide 48: Brainstorming with Students
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- Slide 49: Creating Global Educational Communities
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- Slide 50: CyberOne: Harvard’s Virtual Law School
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- Slide 51: MIT’s Open Courseware
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- Slide 52: The Twenty-First Century Text Book
1. Digital, accessible from many devices
2. Searchable, by words, images, sounds, etc.
3. True multimedia books that engages the five senses
4. Readers become producers (Prosumers)
5. “No book is an island”
6. Lego books -- components, to be re-combined with
others -- gardening to biology
7. Some books will have geo-spatial awareness – a guided
tour of the physical world
8. A platform for learning, collaboration, composition and
innovation -- where everyone can participate
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- Slide 53: Wikinomics and Democracy
Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of a Nation
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- Slide 54: Thank You
Anthony D. Williams
VP, New Paradigm
133 King Street East, Suite 300
Toronto, Canada
awilliams@newparadigm.com
416-863-8864
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