Everything Unplugged is an informal learning group that meets regularly in London and Norwich to have wide-ranging conversations about learning and society. The conversations are loosely structured and bring together diverse people to discuss challenges to traditional education and hierarchies. Participants discuss ideas for more open, non-hierarchical forms of learning and engagement that are rooted in social contexts and networks. The goal is to help people take control of their own learning and contribute to conversations that are generating new possibilities for the future of learning.

1. Everything Unplugged
Learning Conversations
A Curated Conversation on discontinuities; Sept

2. Launching EU-East
Norwich Forum Friday September 7th 2012

3. Everything Unplugged
Our Background;
Learning Unplugged
Society Unplugged
The School of Loose Ties
Your Future Unplugged
Unplugged Links

4. Before Unplugged
Our Background; Unplugged emerged from
debates about Ivan Illich, learning conversations
new ways of doing things in a 2.0 world. Follows
on from work by Tony Hall, Dougald Hine &
School of Everything, using the opportunities
created by the credit crunch and the failure of
hierarchies. A world of future possibilities is on
offer and we discuss what they might be

5. Everything Unplugged 1
Conversations about Learning

6. Tony Hall
• The School of Everything Unplugged began in
July 2009 with a comment in a blog, that
became a chat, that lead to a weekly
conversation, which became the Everything
Unplugged group on Facebook. Through our
conversations we prod, puzzle and play with
the idea of what learning can become
• Tony’s Link; Imagine Blog

7. David Jennings
• Everything Unplugged is the combination of
dogged persistence – with one or two
committing to turn up no matter what -- with
extreme surrender to context -- who turns up
and what they're willing and able to talk
about -- lubricated with a little generosity of
spirit.
• David’s Link; DJAlchemi Blog

8. Patrick Hadfield
• A loosely-connected group of people from a
diverse range of backgrounds and
experiences who gather together to talk
about ideas – prompted, but not exclusively,
by an interest in learning. It is essentially an
ongoing, wide-ranging conversation which
challenges, educates and entertains.
• Patrick’s Blog Link

9. Everything Unplugged 2
Conversations about Society

10. Mark Narayn
• Everything Unplugged is a reliably regular
space for dialogue about learning & society.
• It combines an informal loose structure,
mixed with diverse but informed people who
know how to listen, question and contribute
productively...... For me, it is an oasis in the
sea of self-interested noise that pervades
mainstream education.
• Mark’s WikiQuals Link

11. Bridget McKenzie Blog
• This is a time of revelations and rethinking.
Education is seen as the panacea to injustice
and poverty, but expressed in institutions
channelling people into a ‘real world’ based on
extraction, commodification, accumulation and
waste. We should root learning in social and
natural ecologies generating wellbeing within
and via the biosphere. We need a;
• Learning Planet; Praxis, Play, Peeragogy, Plurality

12. Everything Unplugged 3
Conversations with Loose Ties

13. Ian McCleave
• Unplugged represents an open, non-
hierarchical and occasionally anarchic
opportunity to engage in conversations about
how individuals learn and engage with all that
is around them. It facilitates a more natural
learning process, encouraging everyone to tap
into the collective intelligence, learning from
each other and contributing without fear
• Ian’s Link; @ianmccleave

14. @fredgarnett
• Everything Unplugged provides a context
that celebrates the social discontinuity of
learning. We come together, discuss some
topic until we agree, then we go away,
reflect on those discussions and disagree
afresh. But we’ve been changed by the deep
listening with which we honour the thoughts
of other learning anarchists
• Fred’s Link; Heutagogy Blog

15. Everything Unplugged 4
Conversations about the Future

16. Lucy Johnson
• The focus of Everything Unplugged is on
Education and Informal Learning, particularly
outside of institutions. In the current
education revolution our meet-up aims to help
us and you take control of your learning,
contribute, share, explore and have a voice
• Lucy’s Link; @creativeducator

17. Mark & Lucy
• "Everything Unplugged East" (EUE), is an
offshoot of the brilliant "Everything
Unplugged" meet up at The Royal Festival Hall
in London on the South Bank.
• EUE meets every Friday morning at the Forum
in Norwich at 10.00am.
• EU meets every Wednesday at 10.30am
• Links; EU-East Facebook Page
• EU Facebook page

18. Some Unplugged Consequences
• Dark Mountain
• Uncivilisation
• Agile Learning Unplugged
• The University Project
• WikiQuals
• The Discontinuity of Networks
• Aggregate then Curate
• Click on the links above for more ideas

19. Everything Unplugged Links
Everything Unplugged Facebook Page
Everything Unplugged East Facebook Page
The Everything Unplugged Newspaper edited by David Jennings
WikiQuals self-accredited learning project
School of Everything self-organised learning
Dark Mountain new forms of writing
Caroline Haythornthwaite Social Networks Unplugged
Felix Guattari – 3 Ecologies
Images by Tony Hall Wordle by Fred Garnett at wordle.net
Hey Ho, let’s Rhizome! it’s not a MOOC…

20. Going Unplugged
If you want to create your own informal
learning group, use the links above to get
ideas, come to Everything Unplugged in
London or Norwich, or just get some people
together. After all it’s just a book group
without the books, but full of the strange
charms of people…

21. Everything Unplugged Links
Everything Unplugged Facebook Page
Everything Unplugged East Facebook Page
The Everything Unplugged Newspaper edited by David Jennings
WikiQuals self-accredited learning project
School of Everything self-organised learning
Dark Mountain new forms of writing
Caroline Haythornthwaite Social Networks Unplugged
Felix Guattari – 3 Ecologies
Images by Tony Hall Wordle by Fred Garnett at wordle.net
Hey Ho, let’s Rhizome! it’s not a MOOC…