The Future of Learning keynote

Earlier this month, I gave the keynote address at the conference Unleashing Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning, convened by the Knowledge Alliance/Center for Knowledge Use, the Stupski Foundation, and West Wind Education Policy.

The talk was on The Future of Learning, and it covered the KnowledgeWorks Foundation's 2020 Forecast, prefaced by and mixed with some of my own thoughts about foresight, strategy, and innovation. It was an enjoyable experience for me, and I received many nice compliments afterwards.

The audio file minus the last 60 seconds has been posted online, and the slides from the talk are below. If the video gets posted in the coming days, I'll add that as well.

Knowledge Innovation Summit 080709

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One note: after delivering this talk, I became a tentative, but strongly-persuaded convert to the Aquatic Ape hypothesis, so I'd tweak my statements about the human body and brain being designed for the African savanna accordingly. Thx Chris!

Mastery

If I had to choose a single slide to talk about the future of education, this might be it.

How to Be an Adult

A gem of a book -- insightful and immensely practical. I think it would be a better world if they taught more of this kind of information in college.

The future of education

A stellar map of future forces affecting education from the smart folks at the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute For The Future.

Global Kids redux

The Global Kids summer camp in Second Life that I blogged about last week has posted an awesome comic book summary of the 2006 camp.

Global Kids virtual summer camp

One of my favorite Second Life projects from 2006: the Global Kids virtual summer camp.