I believe the world should commit itself to achieving the goal of flattening global education before the end of the next decade, of exploring and developing a free, complete education solution for all people of the world. So no matter who you are, or where you are, people can access the best education possible, for free!" -- Michael J. Trout, Founder EDUIT, Inc.
For over 3000 years "sage on the stage" Education 1.0 has dominated human culture. Education 2.0 is now emerging as schools, teachers and students start to utilize social networks and web 2.0 tools in education. Media 3.0 is coming and its coming fast! Education 3.0 will emerge as the possibly the most disruptive technology of the 21st century. Any time now a company could roll out an education solution that will completely redefine learning as we know it. The solution will emerge from media 3.0 and as social networking and distributed mutual media merges disconnected education systems into a single global distributed learning platform called e3.0. And when it does eSingularity will have happened. The moment in our history when all learning is done from one multimedia driven application. Uniting and plugging in all learners and educators into the same platform. Getting us there will take a eRevolution and I am its leader.
Imagine, being able to learn anything, anyplace, anywhere from multiple authorities from your XO, iphone, nintendo DSi, PSPi or any similar device. Imagine being able to play enticing e-games that reinforce the topic key points you just watched or reinforce knowledge from a week, month, or more than year ago; and as you do earn reward points for remembering, achieving goals and milestones, completing assignments and connecting with others in virtual classrooms all around the world. A lot of these technologies are emerging fragmented through out the web.
Imagine an environment where learning never stops and is free and accessible to all regardless of their social or economic disposition, funded, like Google, by back-end ad revenue; and like universities, by corporations wanting access to the best and the brightest minds just like sport teams do top athletes. What would top Institutions be willing to sponsor for a future Ed Witten, Plato, or Descartes to join their ranks? And don't forget the regional investors wanting to help their communities. Imagine the end of silly assessment tests, the demise of the bloated and abusive cert industry. Imagine how classes would change in schools and universities. The death of the sage on the stage forever! Where schools and universities become places for networking and applying knowledge and operate more like fraternal mentors competing to for top students like professional sport teams do for top athletes.
Imagine being able to quickly identify brilliant minds just by how they interact within an intelligent e-learning environment. Have you ever pondered how many great minds have starved to death? I have. Or been killed in ignorant conflicts? I have. This is just the beginning... There is far more. Education 3.0 will have tremendous impacts on human society, that are currently unimaginable because they lie on the other side of the new paradigm making them invisible for us to see at this time. The possibilities for society because of e3.0 are truly staggering. And their exists a real potential for abuse too. Apart from the obvious ones... Can you imagine an intelligent twitter reporting all your learning activities to the central government. I could imagine quite a few existing governments would like that...
We have spent 2 billion on Superconducting Super Collider that was never finished, 25 billion on a space station that has done what for humanity? and now billions on researching geo-engineering GW solutions... For what it cost to make the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie Hollywood has wanted to make for 50 years and couldn't-because they lacked the technology, we could develop, like Wikipedia did for web 2.0, the plug to usher in a new era for education where anyone can learn anything, anytime, anywhere.
All the technology is in place for e3.0 to happen, we need only to make the plug -- the Educational Singularity is upon us. The only question is when will we opt to build it? Who will build it? and who will control it?
Posted via email from e3.0
Hello, I like your goal very much. I've also read up on your "The Experience" idea. It seems like a very big project even though the idea in itself is simple.
ReplyDeleteI have one question regarding the experience. You state that the "Skeleton" is planned to be developed by a leading game developer. But how could one single game developer create all the different scenarios needed for learning many things? Is not this part of the experience as important to be community driven as the "Skin"?
there is 2 layers to the experience. One is superficial where what we call opensource widget- elastic games will be developed by the m3.0 content creator. 1, build the media content, 2, the learning targets 3, pick a wigit-e-game link them and publish. very simple. Layer 2 is something exciting and completely different :p
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