“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

- Alan Kay

The future seldom looks like we expect it to…

Or hope…

The future is often imagined within existing paradigms…

And yes, the future is written in the present…

But hints often come from surprising corners…

Pop culture…

Sub-culture…

Technological innovations…

Early adoption…

Apparently bad ideas…

Perhaps just before their time…

So what does our present say about our future?

Where are people learning the most?

The face of work is changing

Knowledge workers…

What skills do we need?

How do we learn them?

What about schools?

The OECD Competencies

Managing Self Relating to Others Belonging (Participating and

Contributing) Using Knowledge and

Information Using Language/Symbols and

Texts

Key questions…

What technologies/trends in our present should we pay attention to?

Where is learning happening? Where are kids/people

developing the compentencies? Where/how could they develop

these competencies, either formally or informally?

We most often learn without meaning to…

An example…

Social play is particularly good for learning…

Even single player games are often played cooperatively

Because games have always been primarily social…

Collateral learning…

City of Heroes: A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG)

Key competencies: language/symbols and texts, relating to others

Key competencies: relating to others/managing self

Key competencies: managing information, language, symbols, text

Key competencies: Belonging/contributing, language, symbols, text

Let’s Imagine!