The document discusses the future of education and learning. It talks about how modern learners called "Homo Zappiens" learn via human and technical networks in informal ways, seeing traditional school as irrelevant. These "free-range learners" choose what and how they learn through self-service methods. The participatory web allows for more active and learner-driven styles of learning through communities, conversations and relationships rather than traditional top-down or classroom models. The future of learning involves addressing complex problems through multiple perspectives and making connections in conversations and communities.

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

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

16. Anthony Bourdain

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

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

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

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