Technology UpdateStephen 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

Whois doing what?

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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