Learning is Not A Place But An Activity

Because of the internet we’ve rediscovered the joy of learning and realized the old learning methods have become obsolete. Now people are learning what they don’t know but need to know.

We go to school to learn from teachers who have learned enough about a subject to be qualified to "teach". So teachers have taught us what they know and society has assumed that model prepares the human network with the needed skills and knowledge to be productive.

The old models of learning suggested that we came to a place (building or campus) to learn. The campus was like a learning factory were lots of students came to learn from the few teachers. The teachers job was to produce students who were able to repeat the use of the knowledge provided by the teacher. Society assumed the output of learning factories were knowledge workers.

What if the assumptions and models are wrong? Who will teach us what we don’t know but need to know? How do we learn what we don’t know and where are the schools that teach us what we don’t know but need to know? To find these answers means we need to learn how to rethink learning.

by Jay Deragon

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