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Katherine Prince • April 5, 2014
Looking Ahead
The future is not a fixed point.
It is ours to create.
What if…
Reinventing Education
An Expanded Learning Ecosystem
What if...
We could we could reinvent learning for today’s needs?
Learning Organization(s)
“School” will take many forms. Sometimes it will be self-organized.
Unbounded Learning
Learning will no longer be defined by time and place – unless a learner wants to learn at a particular time and in a particular place.
Learning Playlists
Learners and their families will create individualized learning playlists reflecting their particular interests, goals, and values.
Diverse Learning Platforms
Those learning playlists might include public schools but could also include a wide variety of digitally-mediated or place-based learning experiences.
Radical Personalization
Whatever the path, radical personalization will become the norm, with learning approaches and supports tailored to each learner.
Questions for Reflection
• How might your district facilitate an expanded range of learning opportunities for students?
• How might you position your district to be a vibrant node in the expanding learning ecosystem?
• How might your district begin brokering learning resources and experiences across traditional boundaries?
• What supports might administrators need in managing more networked combinations of learning resources and experiences?
What if...
We had new ways of supporting learning?
New Learning Agent Roles
Educators’ jobs will diversify as many new learning agent roles emerge to support learning.
•Student Mentors •Course Mentors •Program Faculty
•Program Councils •Program Managers •Curriculum Developers
•Evaluators
•Success Coach •Interdisciplinary Learning Designer •Teaching Assistant
Brokering and Curation
A wide variety of digital networks, platforms, and content resources will help learners and learning agents connect and learn.
Learning Analytics
Some of those tools will use rich data to provide insight into learning and suggest strategies for success.
Questions for Reflection
• As learning experiences diversify, what new services will learners need?
• How might your district create new learning agent roles that support personalized learning for all students and increase job satisfaction for educators?
• What new types of infrastructure might we need to make the expanding learning ecosystem vibrant for all learners?
What if...
The contexts surrounding learning changed dramatically?
New Learning Landscapes
At the same time, geographic and virtual communities will take ownership of learning in new ways, blending it with other kinds of activity.
Shared Solutions
As more people take it upon themselves to find solutions, a new wave of social innovation will help address resource constraints and other challenges.
DIY Credentialing
Diverse forms of credentials, certificates, and reputation markers will reflect the many ways in which people learn and demonstrate mastery.
Ad Hoc Employment Networks
Work will evolve so rapidly that continuous career readiness will become the norm.
Key Skills for Future Employment
• Continuous learning
• Multitasking
• Managing disruptions
• Ability to embrace change
• Experimentation
• Problem-solving
• Quick analysis of information
Questions for Reflection
• What will it mean to be college and career ready as work and organizations change?
• How might your district help learners move seamlessly among community-based and school-based learning experiences?
• Where could new kinds of partnerships lead to new solutions?
What if…
Exploring Opportunities
What might the emergence of a vibrant and adaptive learning ecosystem mean for:
• The ways you operate schools?
• How teachers teach?
• How school leaders interact with their communities?
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