Parasitic Learning

CEO Teemu Arina / Dicole Ltd.tarina.blogging.fi

2007-12-13

Photo: Tracy O

Photo: Don J. McCrady

Who am I?

ZeitgeistThe Spirit of the Age

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All-at-onceness

Marshall McLuhan(1911-1980)

Meta-experiencesMedias are identity devices

Photo: TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³

Knowledge work becomes

network work

“Information overload is an opportunity for pattern recognition” – Marshall McLuhan

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Pattern Recognition

Education: from outcome-basedto process-based

Photo: Pavlos Pavlidis

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Serendipic Learning

Informal learning

Parasitic Learning

Learner using someone as a teacher through virtual means without the knowledge or consensus of the host

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Technology

• Core is information

Information

• Core is interactionRef: Esko Kilpi (2006)

TechnologyInteraction

Othercommunities

Personal Learning Environment

YOU(PLE)

Collective editing

Sharing links

FlickrYouTubeOdeo

Sharing photos, videos, audio

del.icio.us

BlogsReflection

Wikipedia

Web X.0.

Integrated intelligence

Individual intelligenceComputer intelligence

Integrated:Collective intelligence

(networked) ‏

Image: uscfan

Luddites

Social media synonym for the social web?

Palimpsest (wiki)Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (5th century) +

Ephraem the Syrian (12th century)

Tatler (blog)Richard Steele (1709)

ps. It’s broken.

Welcome to the Future

Forget Best Practices

Best practice = Past practiceReflection = Future practice

Image: Felippe Torres

Worst Practices ➡Learning

Image: Duncan

Artist: Lotta Viitaniemi, Story: Kim Forsman & Teemu Arina Ⓒ Dicole Ltd.

Artist: Lotta Viitaniemi, Story: Kim Forsman & Teemu Arina Ⓒ Dicole Ltd.

Efficiency is not effectiveness

You need inefficiency,in order to adapt

Image: Lab2112

Anatomy of an Organisation as an Organism

SkeletonAutomation, Real-

time processes, Operative

technologies - Back-bone for business processes

Ref: Teemu Arina, Illustration: Lotta Viitaniemi

SensesBlogs, Microblogs,

Social bookmarking - Reflection in and on action

Nervous systemFeeds, Search, APIs -

Sharing, discovering and tapping into reflections

BrainWikis, tagging -

Connecting and remixing reflectons

Blood systemSocial networking,

Real-time communications,

Network analysis - Optimizing interaction flow

Image: Z E N

Gesamtkunstwerk of our time

“I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that

any who can feel these vibrations is inspired”

Richard Wagner(1813-1883)

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Contact info

CEO Teemu ArinaDicole Ltd.050 – 555 7636teemu@dicole.comBlog: tarina.blogging.fiwww.dicole.com