A Global Learning Ecosystem for Our Times
The pages of educational journals are littered with good people bemoaning bad systems. I’m one of them. I think we are all correct in the fairly obvious observation that an educational model built to perpetuate class systems is long past its post-industrial sell-by date.
AI has been one of the final nails in that dusty coffin. AI and factory learning have a toxic relationship, doomed to end in tears before bedtime. AI and an organic learning ecosystem form a symbiotic relationship, by, for example, freeing learners from one-dimensional testing systems and enabling teachers to create multidimensional evidence systems using a manageable amount of time/energy.
I was recently privileged to speak at a UNESCO/GSoLEN event in Paris. That sounds grander than it was. I had 5 minutes on a panel discussion. However, that 5 minutes led to a conversation with Éloïne RAMON-BURGADA and Yu He of The Global Youth Dialogue Among Civilizations (TGYDAC) and, subsequently, Maria Angelica Mejia Caceres of Learning Planet Institute (and that’s a long sentence).
In an emergent inter-organizational, inter-generational 🙂 conversation, we’re discussing whether we can team up in support of a complete, alternative Learning Ecosystem. Who knows how far we’ll get, but we’re in there trying. Here’s the invitation if this sounds like a conversation you might enjoy and here’s the link to register: https://bit.ly/47TNTNU
The webinar will be recorded and shared in a Becoming Human Toolkit with all registrants. Come and join us. We have nothing to lose but our.
~Kevin Bartlett, Founding Director, The Common Ground Collaborative
The proposed Learning Ecosystem includes a major element addressing the need for learning spaces to match learning systems.