This document discusses a new vision of learning as more networked, play-based, and passionate. It argues that with unlimited online resources, learning can occur both inside and outside classrooms. The key is providing students with boundaries and freedom to act within rules, cultivating a blended learning environment where information, ideas, and passion can grow through motivation. This represents an organic learning culture of engagement where students learn from resources and each other, with teachers coaching and staying out of the way of change.

1. Thinking
About
Learning
Based on A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown

2. Not necessarily here ….
Or only here…

3. I know
I I’lII’ll never
enough know it all
The past
The present

4. The networked pace of change
may also be our greatest hope!

5. Unlimited
Resources
Incredible Instruments
Unprecedented
Connectivity

6. More sources than Books

7. Including but more than teachers. . .

8. Inside but also outside classrooms. . .
And in a new way . . . .

9. Two
Necessary
Components

10. An Environment
with Boundaries
But
also…

11. Complete Freedom of Action within those
boundaries . . . . .

12. Tension between
the rules of the game
vs. freedom to act within
the rules =

13. Play!
The context where Information,
Ideas,
And Passion Grow

14. The potent tools now include. . . .

15. Children embrace play as a way to
understand the world

16. The metaphor is cultivation
Growth through motivation and passion

17. More choices

18. More Ways to Participate and Create

19. Kids are doing this right now!
They are engaged and passionate about learning

20. So how to re-frame it

21. Turn it around

22. Not always just steps to be mastered. . .

23. But also a blended learning environment

24. A Learning culture is organic
Integrates and creates further change . . . .

25. Not just teaching about the world
but…

26. Using multiple resources to engage with the world
And learning from one another . .
.

27. The teacher has new roles . . . . .
Provide the framework

28. Coach … Encourage… Stay out of the way …

29. Change will happen . . .
So we have to embrace it . . .

30. There is more about thinking at
www.dynamicthinker.me