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But first...

• colloquium Chip Bruce: 12:00-1:30: Room 242: "21st Century Literacy"

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The Futures of Education

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How will people learn in the future? A range of visions

• Super high-tech classrooms
• Home telelearning
• Neighborhood Learning Centers

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Re-examination of educational roles

• learner roles
• learning facilitator roles
• redistribution of these roles

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Kinds of knowledge

• Common knowledge
• Specialized knowledge

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Environments for learning: A vision of a Learning Center

• size
• social structure
• kinds of interactional frameworks to support learning

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Tele-task forces

• short term
• interaction of folks inside and outside of the educational system
• "authentic"

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Grand and Everyday Challenges for Education

• Range of challenges
• People posting "real" problems they face
• students and teachers selecting appropriate challenges

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Kinds of Challenges

• Long-shot problems
• Distributed datasets

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Teleapprenticeships

• Longer term relationships
• multiple overlapping teleapprenticeships
• progression to expertise: from lurking toward mastery

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Relationship of education to the rest of society

• Breaking down the walls
• The World as resources for education
• Education as resources for the rest of the World
• students as valued mediators of problem solving and information processing

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Students as mediators

• Web weavers
• Network-based problem solvers

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For next week

• work on your projects, given the feedback
• finish unfinished mini-projects