If much of formal education is structured around a
teacher coordinating and directing the learning, to what
extent is that preparing people for the type of learning
that will be commonplace for the rest of life?
What are promising examples of schools that appear to
be best equipping people for this sort of lifelong
learning?
Given this incredibly diverse array of experiences that
contribute to a person's learning, what does an educational
ecosystem look like that helps all of us look beyond
diplomas and degrees?
How can we help people tell a more complete story about
their learning and connect with other people and
organizations that resonate with part of that story?
How might new forms of credentials help to tell this
story through the structuring of rich and mine-able
data?
More specifically, what are the benefits and
limitations of AI and algorithmic solutions to connecting
people with other people, organizations, and employment
opportunities through rich and ever-growing data sets? To
what extent might this help us move beyond credentialism?
How might it help is address issues of access and
opportunity?
How can we leverage AI, learning analytics, and
adaptive learning to amplify the quality of learning that
people experience throughout life? What are the exemplars
today for truly personalized and adaptive systems that
optimize learning for individuals and what will it take for
us to reach the next generation of this work?
Since so much of life is and will be focused upon
learning/re-learning/un-learning, how do we infuse and
elevate the human-ness of these experiences by tapping into
incredibly powerful phenomenon like wonder, awe, curiosity,
mystery, adventure, experimentation, truth, beauty, and
goodness? How might historic and emerging insights about
these phenomenon help us think about and design the
lifelong learning ecosystem of the future?
Given that people are constantly learning and will need
to do so even more as technology (and especially AI)
creates massive shifts in types of jobs and the nature of
work, what are some of the more promising platforms,
environments, and resources that help people grow and
learn?
Formal education solutions are clearly inadequate and
misfits for the type and nature of lifelong learning that I
am describing, at least for the majority of situations. As
such, how can we nurture and expand our conversation about
education to see it as a much larger and more
integrated system, one that we do not inhibit by the narrow
constraints, schooling metaphors, educational practice ruts
that shape much of how we think about teaching and learning
today?
