Strictly pedagogical

Learning or education and the industries employing need to work together to close the gap. The cycle for updating learning cannot continue to be so great or we need to change strategies and accept the irrelevance of some of the content we deliver.

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Agreed, but where is the Nature Connectedness and Ecological Literacy to balance out the technology?

If you are curious to know what I think about curation and search and their future, check out this 3-minute audio excerpt from a much longer interview about curating your experience I had with Joel Zasflosky of ValueofSimple.

In it I highlight how inadequate is to expect Google results to fulfill the need that many people have to learn and deepen their knowledge about a topic they are not familiar with.

Google set of very specific, highly filtered and ranked text results represent many, often relevant, individual bites of a larger puzzle that is never shown.

You are provided tons of individual trees in place of the "forest" you have asked about.

That is the greatest limitation for Google… when it comes the need, not to find a specific book, product, event or person, but for learning, understanding, for seeing the bigger picture, then the individual bites, ranked by Google authority or Pagerank, just don't serve our need.

This is why, just like we can't feed our appetites only with Big Macs, when it comes to learning about a topic we're not familiar with, we will increasingly rely on curated search engines, trusted guides and portals who can provide us with a much better and more useful roadmap into learning than Google can.

Audio excerpt: https://soundcloud.com/user458849/curation-and-search-joel

Full interview: http://valueofsimple.com/smart-and-simple-matters-podcast-023-with-robin-good/ 

MP3 full interview: http://traffic.libsyn.com/valueofsimple/023_SmartAndSimpleMattersPodcastFromValueOfSimple.mp3

Subscribe to iTunes podcast: http://valueofsimple.com/itunes

Make time to read this - there's plenty of digging to do here and a few treasures!  Thank you for reminding me about 'adaptive' learning. Great find Tom - thanks.

Imagine diverse learning ecosystems where learning adapts to each child rather than each child trying to adapt to school (which tends to be programmed).  This puts the learner in charge where youngssters can develop their own innate skills inspired from home schooling.

The vision of learning presented in this infographic is so exciting. Even better, it will be my students who build this new learning structure.