Customers,

partners

Co-creating
knowledge
Private net
Searching

Consuming
Internet
internet
knowledge

Partner net
Worker/
learner
Conversation

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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
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.

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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

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How people learn their jobs
Participatory web
Community
 Participatory web culture
VE E
ACTI PASSIV
Web 2.0 culture: Pull School culture: Push
learner-driven instructor-driven
Process focus Event focus
Content defined by learner’s 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

Discussion
Lab
Forum

Lounge
 Storyteller
Web 2.0 lay er
Classroom ia p
Med
k y pe
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Blogs r e ad e d
Th Discussion
Lab Web cu ss ion
lla b or a tion dis Forum
Co
tools Wiki

u n ity
Comm IM
site &
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
Searching

Consuming
Internet
internet
knowledge

Partner net
Worker/
learner
Conversation

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