Future of Education
- 1. internet Internet Private net Partner net Worker/ learner Co-creating knowledge Consuming knowledge Conversation Searching Customers, partners Learnscaping Learnscape
- 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.
- 7. Nodes Top-down Distributed How Networks Evolve as communication costs drop
- 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
- 19. What if? Teacher communities Administrator communities Student communities School/real world communities Cross-cultural communities
- 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
- 27. internet Internet Private net Partner net Worker/ learner Co-creating knowledge Consuming knowledge Conversation Searching Customers, partners Learnscaping Learnscape