Dr. Monica Martinez

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Re-Making Learning

• Dr. Monica Martinez
• Vice President for Education Strategy
• KnowledgeWorks Foundation

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Graduation Year 2020

• When students graduate in 2020, what will the
  world be like?
• Given that world, what will students need to
  succeed?

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What is the purpose of education if not for the
future generations?

• Hunter Lovins

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2006 2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting
Education

• refresh scheduled for january 2009

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How is the Map Arranged?
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What are the Drivers of Change?

• Grassroots Economics
• Smart Networking
• Strong Opinions, Strongly Held
• Sick Herd
• Urban Wilderness
• The End of Cyberspace

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Driver Grassroots Economicsfrom economies of
scale to economies of groups

• A new mode of production
• Openness
• Transparency
• Peering
• Sharing
• Bottom-up, rather than top-down, processes

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Vision of the Grassroots Economy
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What does this tell us?

• Production/ work is more
• Prosumer-based (Consumers produce)
• Cognitively complex
• Globally aware
• Team-based and collaborative
• Dependent on social skills
• Immediate
• Reliant on technological competence
• Mobile
• Bottom line

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Implications of Grassroots Economics

• How do we create reciprocal and distributive
  relationships with coaches and teachers or
  teachers and students?
• What is a broader toolset to address this new
  form of relational, social, collaborative
  teaching and most importantly, to make learning
  visible in this new context.
• How do you decentralize and streamline curriculum
  development to make a learning institution more
  flexible and responsive to students or new
  teachers?

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Driver Smart Networkingfrom informed citizens
to engaged networkers

• The Information Age vs the Connected Age
• Passive Age vs the Active Age
• From informed consumer, citizen, parent, for
  problem solving to a connected community of
  sharing and self-organizing for problem solving.

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Examples of Smart Networking

• for mediaflickr, last.fm, pandora, wikispaces,
  blogger
• by locationnewmindspace, meetup
• for romancematch, okcupid, consummating
• for no real reasonmyspace, facebook,
  friendster, twitter, hi5, orkut, etc.
• for idealsmoveon.org,grassfire.org,shoutout.or
  g

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What does this tell us?

• Technology/Social media is the primary tool to
  facilitate communication.
• Networking will create new forms of work,
  socializing, and political action.
• Collective action can become the norm.

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Implications of Smart Networking

• If learners can communicate anytime, anyplace,
  with anyone, what new affiliations and group
  dynamics can be leveraged for education?
• How can an IT Platform be constructed as a social
  and collaborative learning platform?
• What opportunities are out there to develop
  communities for learning student to student,
  student to teacher, teacher to teacher?
• How can interactivity be integrated into
  educational practices?
• How can value be added to what may be widely
  available?

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If These Walls Could Talk?

• Michael Wesch
• Kansas State University

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Potential new skills for teachers

• Mobbability the ability to work in large groups
  and to organize and collaborate with many people
  simultaneous.
• Ping quotient responsiveness to other peoples
  requests for engagements and to reach out to
  others in the network.
• Open Authorships ease with creating content for
  immediate public consumption and modification.
• Cooperation radar the ability to sense who
  would make the best collaborators on a particular
  project.

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Over the next ten years, how will these minds,
new skills of our students and incoming teachers
remake organization?

• What it means to organize (verb)
• and
• What an organization (noun) looks like

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2020 Forecast Amplified Organizations

• Extended human capacity remakes the organization.
• Amplified educators and learners embrace
  technologies of cooperation, prototype new models
  of learning, and cultivate open and collaborative
  approaches to learning.
• Education institutions will not be the exclusive
  agents of learning, performance assessment,
  support, or quality assurance.

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2020 Roles Learning Agents

• Learning Partner
• Community Intelligence Cartographer
• Personal Education Advisor
• Learning Fitness Instructor
• Assessment Designer
• Social Capital Platform Developer
• Learning Journey Mentor
• Education Sousveyor

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Quotes

• The future is already here...

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Quotes

• The future is already here...
• ...its just not evenly distributed.
• - William Gibson, author

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Monica R. Martinez, PhD
• Vice President of Education Strategy
• KnowledgeWorks Foundation
• [phone]martinezm_at_kwfdn.org
• One West Fourth Street, Suite 200Cincinnati,
  Ohio 45202