A MANIFESTO FOR

TOMORROWS LEARNING
WEB 2.0

TOTALED

In the electronic age

we wear all mankind
as our skin
McLuhan

-- Marshall

The highway of
knowledge has no
toll booth

In an age where all text,

voice and video can be
instantly reproduced, stored,
distributed, shared, edited,
reorganized, replayed,
rewatched, reseen at the
cost of pennies .
knowledge will be
everywhere, anytime, all the
time. Access will be the issue
and NOT cost.

Participation is paramount!
The expert is no longer at the front of the
room. User generated content and
inductive realization will become the
models to new advances in knowledge.
Education will be about bringing people
together the stirring and not just the
soup.

Authority will evolve out of

participation and not from being
imposed onto participation.
Diplomas and degrees will be
replaced by dedication and desire.
The community will have the only
stamp of approval (or
disapproval).

Technology will unleash

creativity through assisting in
different ways of seeing.
Knowledge will grow as we
become able to process more
information, see information
differently and share
information better.
Knowledge will no longer crawl
but be seen as a moving field.

Content
is not a commodity

Where information is in almost

infinite supply nobody will no
longer be buying.
The new limiting and valuable
commodity will be attention and
process oriented.
It will be about capturing the
audience through the use and
presentation of knowledge NOT
the knowledge itself.

Communities will be fluid.

Change will be the only certainty.
Loyalty will be to the idea itself
and not the framework of that
idea.
Anywhere, anytime, anyhow.

We dont NEED to remember as

much anymore.
Memory will now be used to
process, communicate,
evaluate, synthesis, apply.
Bloom will bloom.. It wont
be about connecting the dots
but dotting the connections.

Copyright will apply only to

true innovation and not all
or any manipulation of
knowledge.
Education will get a pass and
profit will come in new forms
of attention getting and not
the things themselves

It will be quiet. The

greatest ideas come on
the wings of a dove.
It is already here. You
just have to see it.

There are no
passengers on
spaceship earth.
We are all crew.
-- Marshall

The will to express ones self,

the drive of the ego and the
return to the primitive side of
man will be the backdrop for the
new learning.
Personality will be paramount and
expression of oneself sui
generis. We are not so much
going ahead as returning to the
days of sound/picture and feeling.

Text will slowly be replaced by

image.
The world will appear as more
pure sensation and much
cooler than ever.
The eye will dominate and selfreflection will recede as
Gutenbergs Galaxy glazes over.

The world will become a

participatory culture and all
learning will funnel through the
sieve and notion of one.
Learning will be about the
encountering of others, all over
the world.
Local will have an expanded
meaning.

The new learning will be

about the meeting of ME
and WE.
The balance will tip away
from individualism and
into the teetering play
between the group and the
person.

The new learning paradigm

offers a
chance for all humans to
participate and learn.
Technology offers the hope that
every person can learn for
pennies.
Each bird can sing, each bird will
sing.

A road is a
flattened-out wheel,
rolled up in the
belly of an airplane.
-- Marshall McLuhan

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