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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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