Customers partners Cocreating knowledge Searching Consuming knowledge Worker

Customers, partners Co-creating knowledge Searching Consuming knowledge Worker/ learner Private net internet Internet 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 E V I T AC E V I S S A P Web 2. 0 culture: Pull School culture: Push learner-driven instructor-driven Process focus Event focus Content defined by learner’s perception of need Content mandated by others’ 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

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What if? • • • Teacher communities Administrator communities Student communities School/real world communities Cross-cultural communities

Storyteller Classroom Discussion Lab Lounge

Storyteller Classroom Discussion Forum Lab Lounge

Storyteller Web 2. 0 Classroom Blogs Lab on i t a r o b Colla tools er y a l ap i d e M pe y k S Web nity u m Com M I & e sit Lounge d a e r Th on i s s u c dis Wiki Discussion Forum

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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