Future of Education

Slide 1: Customers, partners Co-creating knowledge Private net Searching Internet internet Consuming knowledge Partner net Worker/ learner Conversation Learnscape

Slide 2: Participatory Education Future of Education June 7, 2007

Slide 3: Ingredients Entrepreneurial learners Informal learning Participatory web Learning for what? What dish are we preparing?

Slide 4: 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

Slide 5: 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. 5

Slide 6: Informal Learning

Slide 7: How Networks Evolve as communication costs drop Nodes Top-down Distributed 7

Slide 8: Human Governance Bands Kingdoms Democracies 8

Slide 9: Business Single Proprietors Franchises Business Webs 9

Slide 10: Learning One-on-one Classroom Informal 10

Slide 11: How people learn their jobs

Slide 12: Informal Experienced Novice Formal Explicit Tacit 12

Slide 13: Participatory web Community

Slide 14: Participatory web culture TIVE E PASSIV AC Web 2.0 culture: Pull School culture: Push learner-driven instructor-driven Process focus Event focus Content defined by learner’s Content mandated by others’ perception of need perception of need Relationships, conversation Courses, workshops

Slide 15: “Communities of practice are the shop floor of human capital, the place where the stuff gets made.” Tom Stewart

Slide 16: Anthony Bourdain

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Slide 19: What if? • Teacher communities • Administrator communities • Student communities • School/real world communities • Cross-cultural communities

Slide 21: Storyteller Classroom Discussion Lab Lounge

Slide 22: Storyteller Classroom Discussion Lab Forum Lounge

Slide 23: Storyteller r laye Web 2.0 p dia Classroom Me kype S d hreade Blogs T Discussion n cussio Lab Web ion dis llaborat Forum Co Wiki tools unity Comm IM site & Lounge

Slide 24: 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

Slide 25: What sort of stew do we want to make?

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Slide 27: Customers, partners Co-creating knowledge Private net Searching Internet internet Consuming knowledge Partner net Worker/ learner Conversation Learnscape