OllieBray.com. As well as working with Pan-European Youth Panel and visiting the Future Classroom Lab last week in Brussels I also attended the 2013 Safer Internet Forum (#SIF2013) funded by the European Commission and organized by European Schoolnet.
I was my privilege to chair the opening panel where we were discussing the opportunities that the Internet can bring to others. In particular, developing entrepreneurship opportunities for young people. Joining me on the panel were three exceptional young people Albert Geisler Fox, Alja Isaković and Nina Devani. Learning for the 21st Century — Informal Learning Blog. Unprecedented changes in the role of the worker, the nature of business, the pace of innovation, the importance of intangibles, the explosion of information, and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy have rendered traditional corporate learning obsolete.
Jay Cross exposes the inadequacies of traditional learning and discusses a new paradigm for learning in the 21st Century. WHAT IS LEARNING? Learning is the process of figuring out how the world works. Neurons in the minds of learners forge pathways and form patterns that convert the booming, buzzing cacophony bombarding our senses into the simple vista we call reality. Learning develops new capacities, skills, values, understanding, and preferences.