Future LearningStephen DownesFebruary 24, 2008
The Future of Online LearningRevisited: Ten Years Onhttp://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/11/future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on_16.html
Whatare we trying to do?
Ambient learning
Ending the separation of life and learning
Objects that explain themselves…
Direct knowledge through experience rather than mediated knowledge through lecture
the intelligent fishing rod
Instructions included
Objects become interactive
A network that knows
Emergent knowledge
The semantic principle
People who shareDoing becomes demonstrating
The three Ls: language, logic and learning
Rhetoric becomes big again
A language of objects
Thinking for yourself
Critical thinking and reflection
It’s a river, not a reservoir
SurfingSensingExperiencing
pattern recognition
Howwill it be done?
The object system, revisited
Distributed Resources
You and your network of friends
AggregateRemixRepurposeFeed Forward
Those who do, create
Teaching becomes everybody’s job
Worlds within worlds
Modeling, demonstrating, practicing, reflection Simulations, immersions, communities, games
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