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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

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.

Informal Learning

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

How people learn their jobs

12 ExplicitTacit Novice Experienced Informal Formal

Participatory web Community

Participatory web culture Web 2.0 culture: PullSchool culture: Push learner-driveninstructor-driven Process focusEvent focus Content defined by learner’s perception of need Content mandated by others’ perception of need Relationships, conversationCourses, workshops ACTIVE PASSIVE

“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

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?

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