The Future of Learning
A stimlating panel discussion took place on the future of learning yesterday at the Learning Innovations Symposium, featuring Jay Cross, Rob Pearson, and Stephen Downes - moderated by Lisa Neal. Some of the ideas tossed around that struck me as worth thinking about more were:
- The command-and-control model of education vs that of the ‘free range learner’
- ‘Process objects’ in addition to ‘learning objects’
- Critical Thinking + How to Learn = the two big goals of education
- Learning as technology-enabled but not technology-driven
- Schools as the most virtual, most artificial learning environments that exist
- Learning = Doing
- Weblogs are ‘transitional technologies’
- Learning as a ‘whole-body’ experience.
- Active virtual life increases f2f interactions
- Stephen Downes as hermit
Listen to the audio recording (link via OLDaily) of the discussion - it’s funny too.