Slides from my keynote at IPON 2013 (Innovation Platform for Education in the Netherlands)

1. REDESIGNING THE FUTURE OF
EDUCATION IN KNOWMAD
SOCIETY: OUR NEXT STEPS
John Moravec, Ph.D.
@moravec

2. NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO,
THERE YOU ARE.
– Buckaroo Banzai –

3. NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO,
THERE YOU ARE.
– Buckaroo Banzai –

4. KNOWMAD SOCIETY

5. AGRICULTURAL &
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
1.0

6. ca·reer [kuh-reer]
–noun
1.
an occupation or profession, esp. one requiring
special training, followed as one’s lifework.

7. YOUR JOB WAS YOUR WORK.

9. Jo hn

10. KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
2.0

11. ca·reer [kuh-reer]
–noun
2.
a person’s progress or general course of action
through life or through a phase of life, as in some
profession or undertaking.

12. NOW WE HAVE MANY JOBS.

13. Jo hn

14. KNOWMAD SOCIETY
3.0

15. THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE —
% of population with access
IT IS JUST UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED.
# of us
– William Gibson –
Past
Past Future
Future

16. 1. Accelerating change
2. Continuing globalization
3. Innovation society fueled by
knowmads

19. KNOWMADS
• Can be anybody, at any age • Share what they know
• Leverage personal knowledge • Learn, unlearn, and adopt
new ideas as necessary
• Contextually apply what they
know • Thrive in non-hierarchical
organizations
• Motivated to collaborate
• Learn continuously
• Purposively use new
technologies • Are not afraid of failure

20. ca·reer [kuh-reer]
–noun
3.
depreciated.

21. INVENT YOUR WORK.

22. I WANT TO BE DIFFERENT,
LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
I WANT TO BE LIKE.
– John S. Hall (King Missile) –

23. Credit: NASA

24. KNOWMADS STAND OUT.
And so should you.

25. KNOWMADIC LEARNING

26. YOU

27. HOW WE’LL GET THERE:
THREE APPROACHES

28. 1. FOCUS ON SOFT SKILLS.

29. EXPLICIT
= PERSONAL
+
KNOWLEDGE
TACIT

30. 2. CREATE NEW ECOLOGIES.

31. 3. REINVENT OUR
RELATIONSHIPS WITH
TECHNOLOGIES.

32. VISION

33. EDUCATION IS PARTICULARLY
RESISTANT TO CHANGE
BECAUSE ITS WHOLE PURPOSE
IS TO PRESERVE THE PAST.
– Anya Kamenetz –

34. 1.0 SCHOOLS CANNOT TEACH
3.0 KIDS.

37. INNOVUTE!

38. KNOWMADSOCIETY.COM
KNOWMADSOCIETY.COM/OTH