future of education

Customers, partners Co-creating knowledge Private net internet Internet Searching Consuming knowledge Worker/ learner Partner net Conversation Learnscape Participatory Education Future of Education June 7, 2007 Ingredients Entrepreneurial learners Informal learning Participatory web Learning for what? What dish are we preparing? 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 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. 5 Informal Learning How Networks Evolve as communication costs drop Nodes Top-down Distributed 7 Human Governance Bands Kingdoms Democracies 8 Business Single Proprietors Franchises Business Webs 9 Learning One-on-one Classroom Informal 10 How people learn their jobs Participatory web Community Participatory web culture Web 2.0 culture: Pull School culture: Push learner-driven Process focus instructor-driven Event focus Content defined by learner’s Content mandated by others’ perception of need perception of need Relationships, conversation Courses, workshops “Communities of practice are the shop floor of human capital, the place where the stuff gets made.” Tom Stewart Anthony Bourdain truffe What if? • • • • • Teacher communities Administrator communities Student communities School/real world communities Cross-cultural communities Storyteller Classroom Lab Discussion Lounge Storyteller Classroom Lab Discussion Forum Lounge Storyteller Web 2.0 Classroom Lab Web Discussion Forum Lounge 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 What sort of stew do we want to make? 26 Customers, partners Co-creating knowledge Private net internet Internet Searching Consuming knowledge Worker/ learner Partner net Conversation Learnscape