The document discusses how technology is rapidly changing the nature of work, learning, and human existence. This will significantly impact people's life trajectories and work experiences, and may even threaten their existence, unless we learn to change. It argues that our existing educational systems are limiting in preparing kids to deal with these changes. It proposes new design rules for a deliberately developmental learning system focused on learning through experience, others, and putting competencies in context to enable people to navigate an uncertain future.

1. Surviving
Digital Darwinism
Dr. Tony O’Driscoll, Duke CE (Words)
Gary Zamchick (Images)

3. Life
Trajectory
Technology
Odyssey
Work
Experience
Human
Existence
Learning to
Change
A Five-Part Personal Narrative

4. Three Family Life
TRAJECTORIES

5. EUREKA Moment Addict

6. My GRANDAD

7. PILLAR of the COMMUNITY

8. Grandad’s PASSING

9. My Unyielding OBSESSION

10. Grandad’s TECHNOLOGY ODYSSEY

11. My Boys AIDAN AND LIAM

12. Aidan and Liam’s LIFE TRAJECTORIES

13. My FUNDAMENTAL Question
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How can I ensure that Aidan and
Liam are PREPARED to deal a
future that I can barely imagine?

14. My Personal Technology
ODYSSEY

15. Technological INFLECTION and Economic GrowthGrowth
Time

16. Welcome to the WEBVOLUTION

17. THIRD DERIVATIVE Rate of Change

18. Electronic EXOSKELETON

19. Digital Divide of a DIFFERENT Kind

20. A NEW-NORMAL of Constant Disequilibrium
New Normal

21. My FIRST Insight
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Aidan and Liam’s
LIFE TRAJECTORIES will be way
JERKIER than mine!

22. My Disruptive
WORK EXPERIENCE

23. Business Value PROGRESSION and STRUCTURAL LAG
1657
1886
1913
1940

24. Some JACK WELCH Wisdom
If the rate of change on the OUTSIDE exceeds the
rate of change on the INSIDE the end is near!

25. ORGANIZATIONAL RIGIDITY impedes AGILITY

26. My DISRUPTIVE Work Experience

27. Leveraging TECHNOLOGY to ACHIEVE INSTANCY

28. ENTERPRISE centered “From-To’s”
...to WIREARCHY
From hierarchy...
...to EDGE ORCHESTRATION
From central coordination...
...to MERITOCRACY
From Bureaucracy...
...to ALL AROUND
From top down...

29. My SECOND Insight
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Aidan and Liam’s
WORK EXPERIENCE will be
very DIFFERENT to mine!

30. My Deepest Fatherly
FEAR

31. Into the JERK Wormhole

32. Life Trajectory SCENARIOS for Aidan and Liam

33. My DEEPEST Fear
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I have NO IDEA how to PREPARE
Aidan and Liam to deal with the
ENSLAVED and ENMESHED
Trajectories

34. Learning from Experience
AIDAN’S SCHOOL PROJECT

35. Aidan’s Summer School Project at the Lost Colony
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How did the people of the Lost
Colony disappear between 1585
and 1587?
1585

36. Slide 28
First Stop, the Blacksmith Shop….

37. Lost Colony Story
Slide 28
…Next Stop, the Clothes Maker….

38. Lost Colony Story
Slide 28
….and FINALLY….the Baker!

39. Aidan’s AHA Moment!
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They must have all starved to death…
How could anyone live without sliced bread?

40. Slide 28
One LAST Stop Dad…Pleeeeaaaaassssseee?
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OK Dad, lets go…
I know what this is…It’s a
CLASSROOM!

41. An INCONVENIENT truth…
Why is this story
Humorous? What is the Wisdom in the
Humor?
Move over Dude,
I GOT this!
350 BC

42. Slide 28
UNLEARN the ORTHODOXY that lEARNING = TEACHING
Course
Curriculum
Teacher
Student
Program
Topic Test

43. My FOURTH Insight
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I am FULLY CONVINCED that our existing
Educational ORTHODOXIES are limiting
our Schools’ abilities to PREPARE our kids
to deal with DIGITAL DARWINISM

44. Learning to
CHANGE

45. What KIND OF WORLD do we Live in?
“Find It Out” “Figure It Out”
PRODUCTIVE learning focused on
driving INDIVIDUAL human
CONFORMITY around BEST
PRACTICE for KNOWN and
PREDICTABLE opportunities and
challenges
GENERATIVE learning focused on
driving COLLECTIVE human
CREATIVITY around NEXT PRACTICE
for UNKNOWN and UNPREDICTABLE
opportunities and challenges

46. Words of Widsom from Peter Senge
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In organization learning efforts the
confusion between training and
learning is fatal.

47. PERFORMANCE Centered “From-To’s”
...to LEARNING CHALLENGE
From lesson plan...
...to DO IT TOGETHER
From do it yourself...
...to REAL-TIME
From classroom time...
...to PROBLEM SOLVING NETWORKS
From subject matter experts...

48. CONTEXT Centered “From-To’s”
...to TASK
From topic...
...to SITUATIONAL CONTEXT
From course content...
...to DOING THEN LEARNING
From learning then doing

49. LEARNING centered From-To’s
...to LEARNING PULL
From teaching push...
...to VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE
From physical classroom...
...to LEARNER AUTONOMY
From Teacher Authority…
...to CONTEXT CURATION
From Content Creation…

50. LEARNER Centered From-Tos’
From One Size Fits All…
…to One Size Fits ONE
..to LEARNER centered
From teacher centered...
…to Each at his/her OWN Path
From All Move Together...

51. Words of Wisdom Jay Cross
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Getting things done requires good connections of the human
and internet kind.
Schooling has confused us into thinking that learning is
equivalent to pouring knowledge into people’s heads.
It’s more practical to think of learning as optimizing our
networks.

52. Every human’s life
trajectory…
..will be jerked around by
Technology…
…dramatically impacting
their work experience…
…and perhaps treatening their
very existence….
…Unless we can LEARN
TO CHANGE!
Coming Full Circle

53. Thanks!
Go Raibh Mile Maith Agat!

55. New Design Rules
to build a Deliberately Developmental
System

56. REFRAMING 70-20-10 as a Deliberately Developmental System
Learning
through
Training
Learning
through
Experience
Learning
through
Others

57. POP QUIZ: The X Factor?
Content is King but Context is the Kingdom

58. The X-Factor: Putting Competence in CONTEXT
Competency Competency in
Context
Explicit
Knowledge
Tacit
Knowledge
Competencies
in Role
Performance
in Context

59. The Nature of Work: From “Find-it-Out” to “FIGURE-IT-OUT”
Role Based
Cohorts
Collectives
of Individuals
Transferring
Knowledge
Collective
Sensemaking

60. The Learning Environment: From Program to EXPERIENCE
Programs of
Study
Curated
Experiences
Faculty as
Teacher
Faculty as
Collaborator
Controlling
What is Learned
Designing the
Playing Field

61. The Learning Path: From Giving Answers to Eliciting QUESTIONS
Skill
Forward
Performance
Back
Start with
the Answer
Start with
the Question
Productive
Learning
Generative
Learning

62. To learn how to navigate
the permanent white
water created by the
VUCA Vortex…
…we must address the
scary problems that have
painted us into a formal
classroom learning
corner…
…by overcoming our own
limiting learning and
development
orthodoxies…
…to recognize how
technology is rapidly changing
the nature of learning on
multiple different
dimensions…
…that can enable new
design rules to
build a deliberately
developmental learning
system
Coming Full CIRCLE

63. Learning Challenge = Navigate permanent WHITEWATER
Challenges
are
Less
Predictable
Knowledge
Is
Less
Reliable
VUCA
Vortex

64. The Law of DIMINISHING ASTONISHMENT

65. Experiencing the Power of ORTHODOXY
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