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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.
Informal Learning
Nodes  Top-down  Distributed How Networks  Evolve as communication costs drop
Human Governance Bands  Kingdoms  Democracies
Business  Single Proprietors  Franchises  Business Webs
Learning One-on-one  Classroom  Informal
How people learn their jobs
Explicit Tacit Novice Experienced Informal Formal
Participatory web Community
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
“Communities of practice are the shop floor of human capital, the place where the stuff gets made.” Tom Stewart
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What if? Teacher communities Administrator communities Student communities School/real world communities Cross-cultural communities
 
Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Classroom
Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Forum Classroom
Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Forum Classroom Web 2.0 Media player Skype Threaded  discussion Wiki Community site & IM Blogs Collaboration tools Web
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?
 
internet Internet Private net Partner net Worker/ learner Co-creating  knowledge Consuming knowledge Conversation Searching Customers, partners Learnscaping Learnscape

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  • 2. Participatory Education Future of Education June 7, 2007
  • 3. Ingredients Entrepreneurial learners Informal learning Participatory web Learning for what? What dish are we preparing?
  • 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
  • 8. Human Governance Bands Kingdoms Democracies
  • 9. Business Single Proprietors Franchises Business Webs
  • 10. Learning One-on-one Classroom Informal
  • 11. How people learn their jobs
  • 12. Explicit Tacit Novice Experienced Informal Formal
  • 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
  • 15. “Communities of practice are the shop floor of human capital, the place where the stuff gets made.” Tom Stewart
  • 18.  
  • 19. What if? Teacher communities Administrator communities Student communities School/real world communities Cross-cultural communities
  • 20.  
  • 21. Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Classroom
  • 22. Lab Storyteller Lounge Discussion Forum Classroom
  • 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
  • 25. What sort of stew do we want to make?
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  • 27. internet Internet Private net Partner net Worker/ learner Co-creating knowledge Consuming knowledge Conversation Searching Customers, partners Learnscaping Learnscape