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Re:LearnThe Changing Future of Workand Education for Our Connected Kids

Will [email protected]@willrich45

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Saturday, February 2, 13

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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”

Alvin Toffler



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Jacob Arnott14-year old Editor in Chief


Context


“Crisis of Contexts”


Crisis of Contexts

Traditional LearningPoliticians, Parents,

Communities, Educators


Crisis of Contexts



Modern LearningConnected Learners





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Communities Educators


≠Delivery



Communities Educators


≠Delivery

Discovery


New reality


Scarcity


ABUNDANCESaturday, February 2, 13

CHANGESaturday, February 2, 13

“The change we are in the middle of isn’t minor,and it isn’t optional.”

Clay Shirky


750,000 Apps2.5 Billion People

2 Trillion Webpages4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute

16,000 Tweets per second*5 Billion Internet Connected Devices

Etc...

*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration

ABUNDANCE


...A world marked by “ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere, from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share, collect, collaborate and publish.”

Michael Wesch


Media Politics

JournalismMedicineBooks

BusinessMusic...

Which is Changing:


Key Idea:

Institutionally Organized World

Self-Organized World

ABUNDANCE


The Future of Schooling

ABUNDANCE


New Reality

Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere

“School” is everywhere


215,284,446 Lessons Delivered


Self-Organized Learning


“What does a middle school algebra teacher do if kindergarteners can start learning to solve equations

within a couple of hours?”



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The Future of Higher Education

ABUNDANCE


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Scarcity


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Scarcity

Abundance


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Scarcity

Abundance

Information ≠ Education


bit.ly/MZmNDy

Scarcity

Abundance


Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.


Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.

“This is the tsunami.”--Richard DeMillo, Ga. Tech


InstitutionallyOrganized

Self-Organized


2024?


Self-Organized Learners?


The Future of Work

ABUNDANCE


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Self-Organized Work


--Stephen Downes


“Looking to the future of work, one could sum up the anticipated impacts in a single word: More. More intensity. More pressure. More change. More risk. But also, more opportunity. More engagement. More transparency. More impact.”

Yvette Cameron


Means that we are now the central, organizing force in our own learning, our own education, and, increasingly our own careers.

ABUNDANCE


Means that we now need the skills and dispositions to “design”our own

learning and careers.

ABUNDANCE


New Question:

What do students need to learn in school at a moment when they can

learn so much without us?


New Question:

And:What is the value of school (and

classrooms and teachers) at a moment where we don’t need

school to do school?


New Question:


New Answer:

That which cannot be “Khanified.”


New Answer:

CuriosityResiliencePassion

Entrepreneurial ThinkingEmpathyCreativity

CollaborationInquiry

NetworkingCommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)


New Reality

Schools need to be “different”...not just “better.”


Content and Skills

Schools’ Traditional Value


Schools’ New Value


PassionInquiry

Authentic WorkConnectionPerformance




Creating“Entrepreneurial Learners”


“Constantly looking around you, all the time, for new ways

and new resources to learn new things.”

John Seely Brown


“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned

find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that

no longer exists.”

Eric Hoffer


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