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Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change Douglas Thomas USC, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

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A World of Constant Change <ul><li>Why do our classrooms in the 21st century look like they did in the 19th century? </li></ul><ul><li>Resisting, Managing, Adapting and Embracing Change </li></ul><ul><li>Change is endemic </li></ul>

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The Problem of Transfer <ul><li>Efficiency of knowledge transfer </li></ul><ul><li>Explicit vs. Tacit </li></ul><ul><li>Content vs. Context </li></ul><ul><li>The differences between teaching and learning </li></ul>

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Harry Potter and the New Culture of Learning <ul><li>4500 pages over 10 years </li></ul><ul><li>150,000 stories written on one fan site alone </li></ul><ul><li>> 1,500 stories are 100,000 words or longer </li></ul>

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Innovation and Creativity <ul><li>What are the differences? </li></ul><ul><li>Why do they matter? </li></ul><ul><li>From what to where and from where to how… </li></ul><ul><li>The power of “what if?” and world building </li></ul>

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Communities and Collectives <ul><li>Institution and agency </li></ul><ul><li>Community and the problem of scale </li></ul><ul><li>Learning in the collective </li></ul><ul><li>Robust peer-to-peer learning amplified by the power of the collective </li></ul>

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A New Culture of Learning <ul><li>Inquiry </li></ul><ul><li>Questions </li></ul><ul><li>Two cultures </li></ul><ul><li>Bounded learning environments </li></ul><ul><li>Questing disposition </li></ul>

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Learning Around the Game <ul><li>14 million players </li></ul><ul><li>Processing 15,000 pieces of information daily </li></ul><ul><li>Knowledge economies </li></ul><ul><li>360 degree peer evaluations </li></ul><ul><li>Organic learning structures </li></ul>

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Thanks! <ul><li>Special thanks to John Seely Brown and the Annenberg Innovation Lab </li></ul><ul><li>[email_address] </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.douglasthomas.com </li></ul>