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Participatory Education Future of Education June 7, 2007

Ingredients Entrepreneurial learners Informal learning Participatory web Learning for what? What dish are we preparing?

Homo Zappiens Active processors of information Skilled problem solvers Effective communicators Network with friends See school as largely irrelevant Want control of what they do Short attention span, hyperactivity Learns via human and technical networks Homo zappiens are digital School is analog

Free range learners Free-range learners choose how and what they learn. Self-service is less expensive and more timely than the alternative. Informal learning has no need for the busywork, chrome, and bureaucracy that accompany typical corporate training. Less is more.

Informal Learning

Nodes Top-down Distributed How Networks Evolve as communication costs drop

Human Governance Bands Kingdoms Democracies

Business Single Proprietors Franchises Business Webs

Learning One-on-one Classroom Informal

How people learn their jobs

Explicit Tacit Novice Experienced Informal Formal

Participatory web Community

Participatory web culture ACTIVE PASSIVE Courses, workshops Relationships, conversation Content mandated by others’ perception of need Content defined by learner’s perception of need Event focus Process focus instructor-driven learner-driven School culture: Push Web 2.0 culture: Pull

“Communities of practice are the shop floor of human capital, the place where the stuff gets made.” Tom Stewart

“Communities of practice are the shop floor of human capital, the place where the stuff gets made.”

Tom Stewart

Anthony Bourdain

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What if? Teacher communities Administrator communities Student communities School/real world communities Cross-cultural communities

Teacher communities

Administrator communities

Student communities

School/real world communities

Cross-cultural communities

Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Classroom

Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Forum Classroom

Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Forum Classroom Web 2.0 Media player Skype Threaded discussion Wiki Community site & IM Blogs Collaboration tools Web

Learning for what? Address complex and fuzzy problems Provide multiple perspectives Identifying relevance (Making connections) Join in conversation and communities Adapt to accelerating change Making sense of the world

Address complex and fuzzy problems

Provide multiple perspectives

Identifying relevance (Making connections)

Join in conversation and communities

Adapt to accelerating change

Making sense of the world

What sort of stew do we want to make?

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