Jailbreak Your Learning: Video
The following video takes a look at who’s managing our learning in an age of rapid change, ubiquitous information, and social media.
The inertia of hundreds of years of top-down, just-in-case instruction has proven difficult to redirect. Institutions, and the individuals they manage, continue to overvalue a top-down instructional model that was conceived in an era when information was scarce and access to expertise was difficult. Despite the tremendous variety of learning options being made available by social technologies, the idea that individuals should outsource their learning, maintains its prominence.
What does it mean to be a passive learner in an age of rapid change, constantly changing tool-sets, rapid prototyping, automation, and globalization? Is it OK to expect someone to be trained every time there’s a new way of doing something? Is this learning attitude viable in the 21st Century?
