Connected Intelligence: Impact

Connected Intelligence Learning Environments are designed to shift many of the traditional assumptions about education, teaching, instruction and assessment into a new paradigm of learning. The essential shifts are...

Education System
- From: A self-regulated and separate aspect of society, culture and economy…
- To: An integrated system of lifelong and source of innovation for cultural and economic development.
Organizatonal Design
- From: monolithic bureaucratic hierarchies of mass communication...
- To: Flexible and adaptive networks of communication
Schools
- From: A physical building where learning takes place…
- To: A communications hub for global interactivity and participation
Curriculum
- From: A standardized pre-determined scheme of information and subject disciplines…
- To: A flexible learning environment for knowledge creation and applicaton
Instruction
- From: Teacher as the source of expertise...
- To: Distributed systems of expertise across all stakeholders
Assessment and Evaluation
- From: Standardized and imposed forms of testing...
- To: A pervasive, inclusive and participatory culture of assessment.
The Teacher
- From: An expert in a particular field of information…
- To: An experience designer focused on the mentorship of individual talent and potential
The Student
- From: A receiver of standardized information…
- To: An active creator of knowledge and designer of experience
Time
- From: Abstract schedules and imposed systems of time management…
- To: Flexible and adaptive time management in response to the needs of the learner
Age
- From: An artificial division of students into classes based on age groups…
- To: Varied and diverse age groups collaborating on real world issues and problems
Knowledge
- From: A static body of information to be distributed to people…
- To: A dynamic system of experiences that evolve and change over time
Skills
- From: A common body of things people need to do…
- A diverse body of capacities and abilities that grow over time
Attitudes
- From: A standardized set of behaviors based on societal expectations…
- To: Individual development of emotional capacities that benefit self and others
Products
- From: Information, facts, data
- To: Behavior, prototypes, experience

Index: Connected Intelligence Network Learning