(2007-03-13) Brown Learning Environments

John Seely Brown wrote (PDF) a paper on "New Learning Environments" following a talk he gave at the 2005 Aspen Symposium. He made an update version (PDF) in fall-2006. Changing was of Educating Kids to deal with Complex Systems of the world.

• Studio Based Learning (Studio School) (from art school to Engineering)
• from Learning About to Learning To Be (Tacit Knowledge, ApprenticeShip)
  • hrm, Learning by Doing?
• Jean Lave's Situated Learning theory (importance of Context) (ApprenticeShip), and Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Lave & Wenger (1991) provide an analysis of situated learning in five different settings: Yucatec midwives, native tailors, navy quartermasters, meat cutters and alcoholics. In all cases, there was a gradual acquisition of knowledge and skills as novices learned from experts in the context of everyday activities.
• Iterative development/change of teaching practices (therefore must be Bottom-Up)
• Public/Multimedia Back Channel
• Mobile tools
• MMORPG, World Of Warcraft, Virtual World
• Pro-Am
• From Push To Pull 2006-11-03-HagelBrownPushToPull