5. Messiness and Education
WSJ 2001
Marc Eisenstadt, John Seely Brown, et al:
• interactive
• personalised curriculums
• lifelong learning
• distributed knowledge
6.
7.
8.
9. 1985: Born — Internet 2 years old; Nintendo release 'Super Mario Brothers'
1990: Start primary school — WWW being conceived
1992: 7 years old — first SMS message sent
1995: Amazon, eBay founded
1996: Heading towards secondary school — Hotmail launched;
pay‐as‐you‐go mobile tariffs; instant messaging
1998: Teenage years — Google founded
1999: Studying for GCSEs — Napster; Blogger
2001: Wikipedia; iPod
2002: Studying for A Levels — social‐networking services appear
2003: University — Skype
2005: Graduation approaches — YouTube
John Naughton: http://oscal.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/lecture‐text.pdf
See also: http://www.preoccupations.org/2007/05/making_the_poin.html
32. In the workplace, learners can, when they need, steal
their knowledge from the social periphery made up of
other, more experienced workers and ongoing, socially
shared practice. The classroom, unfortunately, tends to
be too well secured against theft.
John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid (1992)
45. Teens in America are in touch with their peers on average 65 hours a
week, compared to about 4 hours a week in preindustrial cultures.
Robert Epstein
46. Displacing Email for Personal Communication
Changing the Nature of Software Discovery and
Distribution
Facebook Marketplace: A Craigslist Killer
Facebook: The Power of Software that Knows Who You
Know
57. 1. You can’t control, but you can
influence.
2. Educate about ICT, don’t drill.
3. Recognise your medium is one of
collaborative, distributed networks.