Great summary of where education is moving to. Seems you were inspired by semantic web tech, virtual worlds and the trend toward super-connectivity, all of which are of course going to transform education and the world.

For the “Teaching is done” slot, do you also see information “objects” or structures as a key element? I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the semantic web, and it seems that as the quality of the info packaging increases and is facilitated by baby-AI that human-to-info learning will be bettered. Are you lumping this in with tech?

Very cool post.

Have you seen this? A startup called Adaptive Blue is launching a product called Blue Organizer (hope I linked that correctly) which, to quote Tech Crunch, “lets you surf things instead of Web pages. It recognizes when a Webpage that you are browsing is about certain classes of things: books, movies, music, stocks, recipes, restaurants, blogs, wine, clothing, electronics, celebrities, musicians, hotels. And it creates shortcuts to other Webpges about that same “thing” (or object).”

In case I butchered the insertion above, here’s the Adaptive Blue link again:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/12/blue-organizers-latest-indigo-release-lets-you-surf-things-instead-of-web-pages/

Alvis, are you suggesting that we can track knowledge as objects? (I really don’t think that’s possible…!!)

@ John

It looks to me like we’re about to see apps that can effectively pool related knowledge far better than current search engines can, thus forming objects or pseudo-objects. So my answer to your question is yes, morphous objects, but still objects. Using such tools, I can imagine tasks like filling in wikipedia will get much, much easier. Thus, the terms in wikipedia will become more “alive” and autonomously generating. These morphous objects will then enable new types of interaction with people.

Mind you, my statements are still in the realm of speculation / imagination, but nevertheless there may be emerging a tendency for information systems to gradually boot-strap up to becoming more self-aware and self-defining.

Derek– I really like your taxonomy!! But, what you label as Education 2.0, I would still label as Education 1.0 because what is taught doesn’t change in the space between Ed 1.0 and Ed 2.0 in your spectrum. As long as we’re using new technologies to teach the same old crap, we’ll be stuck in Ed 1.0.

Your Ed 3.0 aligns well with my Ed 2.0 as an “orchestrator of collaborative knowledge creation,” put really reads as an extension of progressivism. I think that if you look at it from a (new) knowledge production perspective rather than one that is focused on content delivery, a new vision for Ed 3.0 will emerge…

Interesting that you think that our view of Education 3.0 is focused on content delivery. If that is the case, then we need to rewrite our explanation of it. Certainly, this is not our intention. Rather our view deals with institutional arrangements that foster and permit “new modes of knowledge production” as you call them. Of course, it is possible that you are using content in a difference sense than I would use it. regards, derek