4. 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
5. 5
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.
13. Participatory web culture
Web 2.0 culture: Pull School culture: Push
learner-driven instructor-driven
Process focus Event focus
Content defined by learner’s
perception of need
Content mandated by others’
perception of need
Relationships, conversation Courses, workshops
ACTIVE
PASSIVE
14. “Communities of practice are the shop
floor of human capital, the place where the
stuff gets made.”
Tom Stewart
23. 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
Warm up for Jean-Marc Chaput Si quelqu’un parle dexu langues, il s’appelle bi-linge =lang Si quelqu’un parle trois langes, il s’appelle tri-linge. Alors, comment-on appelle quelqu’un qui parle seulement une lange? Americain.
Future society needs people who can address complex and fuzzy problems from different angles and come up with unexpected solutions. Acquiring content as the main goal of education will be less important, replaced instead by meaning and relevance.