Sean McClean

Crushing the Compass

CRUSHING THE COMPASS: LEARNING IN THE WORLD, WITHOUT DIRECTION

What’s happening with learning and training today?

DISRUPTION: WE INTERRUPT THIS INTERRUPTION TO SHAKE

THINGS UP…

• Disruption very “hip” today because it creates new markets and opportunities

• The “Space Between” as described by Johansson (Medici Effect) and Kim & Mauborgne (Blue Ocean Strategy)

Discipl

ine A Biology

Discipli

ne B Architec

ture

Opport

unity

Disrupti

on

WAS LEARNING ALL THAT DIRECTED ANYWAY?

• Not to argue semantics, but, well…

• Head / Top / Bottom of the class

• Matriculation / Graduation

• What is a “course” if not a route to follow?

• Objectives

• Certificates, degrees – objective tests…

• Values and competencies harder to gauge

• There’s a path to a peak – but what about the space in between?

TECHNOLOGY IS STRIPPING AWAY THE DIRECTION FROM LEARNING

• Recordings and blogs starting to strip beginning and end of traditional “course”

• Collaborative tools and social media strip the top and bottom

• Search technologies and big data strip

process and context

HTTP://WWW.TED.COM/TALKS/ABHA_DAWESAR_LIFE_IN_THE

_DIGITAL_NOW.HTML

THE NOW MENTALITY STRIPS THE RUDDERS AND SAILS

• Modern and global economy is FAST

• Learning is often obsolete upon completion

• The path to profit is much less“Chartable”

• Demand is outstripping our ability to steer

• Jet planes with steering wheels…

• Failure is not only acceptable, it’s desirable (in small doses)

HTTP://REIDHOFFMAN.ORG/DISRUPTING-THE-DIPLOMA/

SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US?

• From the Silk Road… To the Frontier!

• Competencies and Values Based Rubrics over Objectives

• Mistakes and “UNLearning”

• IEPs over degrees

• No such thing as “Finished”, “Graduated”, or “Done”

• Explorers, pioneers, and cartographers wanted!

NEW FRONTIERS

• Mistakes are what exploring is all about? • UnLearning

• Mistakes are the new right path

http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_bein

g_wrong.html

NEW FRONTIERS

• What if Objectives became less important than competencies? • We’ve learned to refine and refine and refine our

directives

• Olympics and the Need for Speed

• Enter the Competency and the Value Based Rubric…

NEW FRONTIERS

• IEPs (Individual Learning Plans) over Degrees

• No “one” path anymore

• Training and Education needs to be redefined as an ongoing, and never-ending process

NEW FRONTIERS

• What are the Skillsets of the Pioneer? • Independence and willingness to fail

• Cartography and Documentation

FINAL THOUGHTS http://bitstrips.com/r/5WWVW

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