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This document discusses the evolution of learning and education. It describes "Homo Zappiens" or digital natives who are skilled problem solvers and learn via networks. It also discusses the shift from traditional top-down education models to more informal, participatory and learner-driven models of education using networks and communities of practice. The document advocates for addressing complex real-world problems through multiple perspectives and conversations within communities.

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Future of Education3726

This document discusses the evolution of learning and education. It describes "Homo Zappiens" or digital natives who are skilled problem solvers and learn via networks. It also discusses the shift from traditional top-down education models to more informal, participatory and learner-driven models of education using networks and communities of practice. The document advocates for addressing complex real-world problems through multiple perspectives and conversations within communities.

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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.

Informal Learning

How Networks Evolve


as communication costs drop

Nodes

Top-down

Distributed

Human Governance

Bands

Kingdoms

Democracies

Business

Single Proprietors

Franchises

Business Webs

Learning

One-on-one

Classroom

Informal

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How people learn their jobs

Participatory web
Community

Participatory web culture

Web 2.0 culture: Pull learner-driven

School culture: Push instructor-driven

Process focus

Event focus

Content defined by learners 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?

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Customers, partners

Co-creating knowledge

Private net
internet Internet

Searching Consuming knowledge

Worker/ learner

Partner net
Conversation

Learnscape

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