Last week I wrote about A fourth orb (world) for Roger Penrose’s diagram, and included an illustration with his 3 orbs and a fourth circle that I added representing the internet. Today I have added the little boy using his wireless device to browse the internet.
I have been working in recent weeks toward refining the focus of my GoldenSwamp.com blog. The illustration with the orbs and the boy mobile-browsing the internet pretty well captures where I am going. What the boy is doing changes education in ways that are almost too beautiful to be true.
Two big things are bringing the new global golden age of learning into view:
ONE: The amassing of the contents of Penrose’s 3 orbs within a single open venue where networking laws can refine the knowledge gold within the grand swamp of information. The process presents what humankind knows in a totally new, integrated way.
TWO: The individual mobile (untethered) device will soon connect everyone on the planet with the will and wits to use it into this knowledge.
The fabulous adventures ahead for educators are to understand and make findable what Stuart Kauffman calls “ceaselessly, co-constructing creativity” that describes the emergence. No longer separated by print and ivy walls, learning resources within the internet are for the first time experiencing the honing and enrichment of emergence.
July 13th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I’ll be looking forward to reading the rest of this model and how you work through it here. Thanks always for the insightful posting.