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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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    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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