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Participatory Education

Future of EducationJune 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 digitalSchool is analog

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Free range learnersFree-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

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Nodes Top-down Distributed

How Networks Evolveas communication costs drop

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Human Governance

Bands Kingdoms Democracies

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Business

Single Proprietors Franchises Business Webs

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Learning

One-on-one Classroom Informal

How people learn their jobs

Participatory web

Community

Participatory web culture

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

ACTIVEPASSIVE

“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

DiscussionForum

Classroom

Lab

Storyteller

Lounge

DiscussionForum

ClassroomWeb 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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