This manifesto discusses evolving approaches to learning and education. It advocates for a "Knowmadic" paradigm where learning is complex, creative, and self-organizing rather than hierarchical. Relationships are holographic rather than mechanical. Reality is viewed as contextual rather than objective. The author believes schools should prepare students to be "knowmads" - nomadic knowledge workers who can learn and work anywhere. By 2020, 45% of the workforce may be knowmads. The future belongs to creative thinkers who can break rules thoughtfully and build trust. The author promotes an open, flat, impactful, networked approach to transforming education through collaboration.

1. Manifesto 15
Evolving learning
JOHN W. MORAVEC
@moravec
john@educationfutures.com

2. Lawrence Weiner
@Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

3. manifesto15.org

4. Paradigm
Domain 1.0 2.0 Knowmadic
Fundamental
relationships
Simple Complex
Complex creative
(teleological)
Conceptualization of
order
Hierarchic Heterarchic
Intentional, self-
organizing
Relationships of parts Mechanical Holographic Synergetic
Worldview Deterministic Indeterminate Design
Causality Linear Mutual Anticausal
Change process Assembly Morphogenic
Creative
destruction
Reality Objective Perspectival Contextual
Place Local Globalizing Globalized

5. “The future is already here
— it’s just not very evenly
distributed.”
William Gibson

6. 1.0 schools cannot teach
3.0 kids.

7. Kids are people, too.

8. The thrill of jumping off a cliff
by deciding to do so yourself
is a high you will never have
if someone else pushes you
off of it.

9. Don’t value what we measure,
measure what we value.

10. Peter Gray
We are so obsessed with measuring things that we think
we can measure an education; but we can’t.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.gray.3572/posts/10152612489153801?pnref=story

11. If “technology” is the
answer, what was the
question?

12. Digital skills are invisible,
and so should technologies
be in schools.

13. We cannot manage
knowledge.

14. “The network is the
learning.”
George Siemens

15. knowledge
Cristóbal Cobo

16. experience
Cristóbal Cobo

17. The future belongs to nerds,
geeks, makers, dreamers
and knowmads.

18. Knowmad Society (2013), p. 18
A knowmad is a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative,
imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost
anybody, anytime, and anywhere.

19. Knowmads are also
context workers

20. Not restricted
by age
Tacit and
explicit learner
Contextualizer
of knowledge
Collaborator Purposively uses
new technologies
Invites
sharing
Unlearner
and learner
Thrives in
flat networks
Continuous
learner
Not afraid
of failure
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21. By 2020, 45% of us will be knowmads

23. Knowmads stand out.
And so should you.

24. John S. Hall (King Missile)
“I want to be different,
like everybody else I want to be like.”

25. NASA

26. NASA

27. Skills for entrepreneurship and
intrapreneurship are critical in
Knowmad Society.

28. Entreprenerds

29. Nerd Venn Diagram inspired from Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/09/07/nerd-venn-diagram/
Intelligence Eccentricity
Obsession
Dweeb
Nerd
Geek Dork
Applied:
Imagination
Creativity
Innovation
= EntrepreNerd
+

30. Break the rules,
but understand why,
clearly, first.

31. We must and can build
cultures of trust in our
schools and communities.

32. So what?

33. My approach
Open, flat, impactful,
networked, communicated

34. 1. Open

35. 2. Flat

36. 3. Impactful

37. Mode I Mode II Mode III
Interventions Attitudes Systems-based
Vectors Beliefs Core-transformative
Quick hacks Trendy ideas Revolutions
Easy to sell Easy to sell Hard to sell
Easy to implement Hard to implement Really hard to implement
Easy to measure Harder to measure Really hard to measure

38. Mode I Mode II Mode III
Laptops, iPads, etc. Design thinking Invisible learning
Testing EduPunk Democratic education
Common Core/Standards
Professional learning
communities
Critical pedagogy
STEM Creativity Unschooling
Longer school year Co-working/co-learning
Nearly all edutech startups Early childhood education*

39. 4. Networked

40. Maurice Mikkers

41. Networking supports
transdisciplinarity and
postdisciplinarity.

42. 5. Well communicated

43. Can we partner to create a
collective capacity to
transform education?

45. Innovute!

46. manifesto15.org