implicit art

re-blog from iSummit 2006 <<>>

Shown in the picture here is the lovely daughter of iSummit Artist in Residence Nathaniel Stern, four-week-old South African Sidonie.   Her generation will the first to experience fully 21st century education. The Sunday morning Education Commons panel looked at what Sidonie and her contemporaries should expect educationally. Panel chair Neeru Paharia posed some big questions. Judy Breck said the global golden age of learning is arriving. Pete Barr-Wilson brought the latest news from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Cory Ondrejka highlighted the awesome potential and the pioneering underway of Second Life in education. Kevin Driscoll issued a challenge to the world’s teachers to build a Teacher Forward collection of lesson resources.  Kerryn McKay, against the background of South Africa’s recent history, described the impact on making educational change of political, social and emotional factors. Philipp Schmidt sketched the opening of courseware at MIT and issues around the role of universities in the education commons. Further comments from the audience elaborated these and other education factors. My strong optimism is that by the time Sidonie is off to kindergarten, the full morning of the global golden age of learning will have arrived for her and for kids in her generation across the planet. They will learn and interact with knowledge and with each other in a new education, 21st century iCommons style.