Presentation at University of Manitoba LTC's virtual conference on the Future of Learning

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

2. Participatory Education Future of Education June 7, 2007

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

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

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.

6. Informal Learning

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

8. Human Governance Bands Kingdoms Democracies

9. Business Single Proprietors Franchises Business Webs

10. Learning One-on-one Classroom Informal

11. How people learn their jobs

12. Explicit Tacit Novice Experienced Informal Formal

13. Participatory web Community

14. 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

16. Anthony Bourdain

17. truffe

21. Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Classroom

22. Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Forum Classroom

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

25. What sort of stew do we want to make?

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