Leapfrog Asia!

By  | 11/21/2007 | Filed under: Innovation

I’m still in China, so this is just a quick note that CNN.com published a special report labeled “Just Imagine,” a vision of what life would be like in 2020. The learning section is quite good, and contains an interview with Yasuaki Sakyo, who founded Shibuya University Network — and implemented a lifelong learning approach that is infused into the community it serves. In effect, the entire city of Shibuya becomes a classroom.

More thoughts on this next week, along with a potentially BIG announcement on Leapfrog in China.

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Dr. John Moravec is a faculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and the Innovation Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs at the University of Minnesota. He is the principal of Education Futures LLC; a co-founder of the Horizon Forum, a roundtable on the future of education at all levels; and is the editor of Education Futures. He can be emailed at john@educationfutures.com.

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One Response to Leapfrog Asia!

  1. [...] Me gusta la apuesta de John Seely Brown quien defiende la idea de que el aprendizaje real es básicamente un acto social y por ello el valor del proceso de aprendizaje grupal (ya sea presencial o virtual). Brown agrega otros calificativos como aprendizaje caótico, distribuido, interactivo donde herramientas como facebook o secondlife se convierten en aplicaciones de un valor sustantivo. Además, él usa como un ejemplo exitoso para la educación de mañana “las comunidades de práctica” como las que sustentan el open source (Firefox, Linux, Apache, etc.). Esto me hace pensar en la apuesta de Yasuaki Sakyo de la Universidad de Shibuya en Japón, cuyo modelo de educación es comunitario, abierto y absolutamente horizontal [vía educationfutures]. [...]

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