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Super-empowered, networked learning agents leverage the growing learning economy to enable provisional learning systems. These informal education systems operate alongside the public institution. These “shadow schools” offer learning environments that are highly responsive to local education needs but are independent of the formal system. Ways to Start Taking Action
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Creating flexibility and innovation amid system failures System shocks and disruptions in the arenas […] Explore Platforms for Resilience
DRIVERS OF CHANGE are major forces of transformation that will shape our efforts to remake learning. They represent the convergence of several trends into emerging ideas that will disrupt traditional assumptions about learning.
Open collaborative platforms enable networked teams to self-organize and support ad hoc leaders. New […] Explore Open Leadership and Sociability
Data trails, participatory media, and visual tools create new bases for reputation, mastery, and recognition […] Explore Open-Source Assessment
TRENDS are distinct directions of change that will shape the future of learning.
Swaraj University is a three-year learning program in India that creates opportunities for young learners […] Explore Swaraj University
In Africa, Google has created an application allowing simple cell phones (just voice and sms messaging […] Explore SMS Search: A Shadow School?
SIGNALS are examples, or early indicators, of the changes described by the trends and the drivers of change.
Community intelligence cartographers will tap the collective intelligence of their local communities. […] Explore Community Intelligence Cartographer
Assigned by certified local education agencies, such as schools, resource centers, and libraries, or […] Explore Personal Education Advisor
LEARNING AGENTS suggest new roles and functions that might emerge in the future ecosystem of learning.
This paper explores participants’ perspectives from a convening hosted by KnowledgeWorks Foundation on […] Expand for Continued Reading
This paper explores participants’ perspectives from a convening hosted by KnowledgeWorks Foundation on the topic of "Re-Imagining Teaching Careers." In hosting this convening, KnowledgeWorks Foundation hoped to: 1) Probe critical issues of the future in order to consider what learning experiences might be relevant for students, 2) Explore how learning might be delivered in the future, 3) Begin imagining what types of roles might be constructed to deliver such learning, and 4) Examine how these roles might be supported within a larger system or profession.
Associated Topic: Amplified Organization > Beta Building > Transliteracy
Tags: customer preferences, learning agents, teacher preparation, teachers,
Added: March 19, 2009
This paper explores participants’ perspectives from a convening hosted by KnowledgeWorks Foundation, […] Expand for Continued Reading
This paper explores participants’ perspectives from a convening hosted by KnowledgeWorks Foundation, a Cincinnati, Ohio, based operating foundation whose mission is to solve national education problems innovatively and with others, on the topic of "Preparing Highly Effective Teachers." In hosting this convening, KnowledgeWorks Foundation hoped to develop a knowledge-era vision for preparing quality teachers. The foundation also hoped to identify the most essential elements of, and the barriers and steps in reaching, that vision.
Tags: learning agents, teacher certification, teacher preparation,
Jamais Cascio, research affiliate at Institute for the Future and a blogger, talks about the responses […] Expand for Continued Reading
Jamais Cascio, research affiliate at Institute for the Future and a blogger, talks about the responses we make to issues can often be more threatening than intended.
Associated Topic: Platforms for Resilience > Autoimmune Responses > No Child Left Behind
Tags: autoimmune disorder, chlorine, computer, Iraq, Knowledge creation,
Added: January 23, 2009
Jessica, Director of Communities at The Groupery, speaks about efficient ways PTA's and other communities […] Expand for Continued Reading
Jessica, Director of Communities at The Groupery, speaks about efficient ways PTA's and other communities can organize and fundraise, and the impact these services have on education and getting the for-profit and non-profit sectors to work together.
Tags: collaboration, community, education, fundraising, learning,