surviving digital darwinism
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Surviving
Digital Darwinism
Dr. Tony O’Driscoll, Duke CE (Words)
Gary Zamchick (Images)
Life
Trajectory
Technology
Odyssey
Work
Experience
Human
Existence
Learning to
Change
A Five-Part Personal Narrative
Three Family Life TRAJECTORIES
EUREKA Moment Addict
My GRANDAD
PILLAR of the COMMUNITY
Grandad’s PASSING
My Unyielding OBSESSION
Grandad’s TECHNOLOGY ODYSSEY
My Boys AIDAN AND LIAM
Aidan and Liam’s LIFE TRAJECTORIES
My FUNDAMENTAL Question
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How can I ensure that Aidan and
Liam are PREPARED to deal a
future that I can barely imagine?
My Personal Technology ODYSSEY
Technological INFLECTION and Economic GrowthG
row
th
Time
Welcome to the WEBVOLUTION
THIRD DERIVATIVE Rate of Change
Electronic EXOSKELETON
Digital Divide of a DIFFERENT Kind
A NEW-NORMAL of Constant Disequilibrium
New Normal
My FIRST Insight
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Aidan and Liam’s
LIFE TRAJECTORIES will be way
JERKIER than mine!
My Disruptive WORK EXPERIENCE
Business Value PROGRESSION and STRUCTURAL LAG
1657
1886
1913
1940
Some JACK WELCH Wisdom
If the rate of change on the OUTSIDE exceeds the
rate of change on the INSIDE the end is near!
ORGANIZATIONAL RIGIDITY impedes AGILITY
My DISRUPTIVE Work Experience
Leveraging TECHNOLOGY to ACHIEVE INSTANCY
ENTERPRISE centered “From-To’s”
...to WIREARCHY
From hierarchy...
...to EDGE ORCHESTRATION
From central coordination...
...to MERITOCRACY
From Bureaucracy...
...to ALL AROUND
From top down...
My SECOND Insight
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Aidan and Liam’s
WORK EXPERIENCE will be
very DIFFERENT to mine!
My Deepest Fatherly
FEAR
Into the JERK Wormhole
Life Trajectory SCENARIOS for Aidan and Liam
My DEEPEST Fear
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I have NO IDEA how to PREPARE
Aidan and Liam to deal with the
ENSLAVED and ENMESHED
Trajectories
Learning from ExperienceAIDAN’S SCHOOL PROJECT
Aidan’s Summer School Project at the Lost Colony
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How did the people of the Lost
Colony disappear between 1585
and 1587?
1585
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First Stop, the Blacksmith Shop….
Lost Colony Story
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…Next Stop, the Clothes Maker….
Lost Colony Story
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….and FINALLY….the Baker!
Aidan’s AHA Moment!
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They must have all starved to death…
How could anyone live without sliced bread?
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One LAST Stop Dad…Pleeeeaaaaassssseee?
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OK Dad, lets go…
I know what this is…It’s a
CLASSROOM!
An INCONVENIENT truth…
Why is this story
Humorous? What is the Wisdom in the
Humor?
Move over Dude,
I GOT this!
350 BC
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UNLEARN the ORTHODOXY that lEARNING = TEACHING
Course
Curriculum
Teacher
Student
Program
Topic Test
My FOURTH Insight
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I am FULLY CONVINCED that our existing
Educational ORTHODOXIES are limiting
our Schools’ abilities to PREPARE our kids
to deal with DIGITAL DARWINISM
Learning to
CHANGE
What KIND OF WORLD do we Live in?
“Find It Out” “Figure It Out”
PRODUCTIVE learning focused on
driving INDIVIDUAL human
CONFORMITY around BEST
PRACTICE for KNOWN and
PREDICTABLE opportunities and
challenges
GENERATIVE learning focused on
driving COLLECTIVE human
CREATIVITY around NEXT PRACTICE
for UNKNOWN and UNPREDICTABLE
opportunities and challenges
Words of Widsom from Peter Senge
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In organization learning efforts the
confusion between training and
learning is fatal.
PERFORMANCE Centered “From-To’s”
...to LEARNING CHALLENGE
From lesson plan...
...to DO IT TOGETHER
From do it yourself...
...to REAL-TIME
From classroom time...
...to PROBLEM SOLVING NETWORKS
From subject matter experts...
CONTEXT Centered “From-To’s”
...to TASK
From topic...
...to SITUATIONAL CONTEXT
From course content...
...to DOING THEN LEARNING
From learning then doing
LEARNING centered From-To’s
...to LEARNING PULL
From teaching push...
...to VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE
From physical classroom...
...to LEARNER AUTONOMY
From Teacher Authority…
...to CONTEXT CURATION
From Content Creation…
LEARNER Centered From-Tos’
From One Size Fits All…
…to One Size Fits ONE
..to LEARNER centered
From teacher centered...
…to Each at his/her OWN Path
From All Move Together...
Words of Wisdom Jay Cross
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Getting things done requires good connections of the human
and internet kind.
Schooling has confused us into thinking that learning is
equivalent to pouring knowledge into people’s heads.
It’s more practical to think of learning as optimizing our
networks.
Every human’s life
trajectory…
..will be jerked around by
Technology…
…dramatically impacting
their work experience…
…and perhaps treatening their
very existence….…Unless we can LEARN
TO CHANGE!
Coming Full Circle
Thanks!
Go Raibh Mile Maith Agat!
New Design Rules
to build a Deliberately Developmental
System
REFRAMING 70-20-10 as a Deliberately Developmental System
Learning
through
TrainingLearning
through
Experience
Learning
through
Others
POP QUIZ: The X Factor?
Content is King but Context is the Kingdom
The X-Factor: Putting Competence in CONTEXT
Competency Competency in
Context
Explicit
KnowledgeTacit
Knowledge
Competencies
in RolePerformance
in Context
The Nature of Work: From “Find-it-Out” to “FIGURE-IT-OUT”
Role Based
Cohorts
Collectives
of Individuals
Transferring
KnowledgeCollective
Sensemaking
The Learning Environment: From Program to EXPERIENCE
Programs of
Study
Curated
ExperiencesFaculty as
TeacherFaculty as
Collaborator
Controlling
What is Learned
Designing the
Playing Field
The Learning Path: From Giving Answers to Eliciting QUESTIONS
Skill
Forward
Performance
Back
Start with
the AnswerStart with
the Question
Productive
LearningGenerative
Learning
To learn how to navigate
the permanent white
water created by the
VUCA Vortex…
…we must address the
scary problems that have
painted us into a formal
classroom learning
corner…
…by overcoming our own
limiting learning and
development
orthodoxies…
…to recognize how
technology is rapidly changing
the nature of learning on
multiple different
dimensions…
…that can enable new
design rules to
build a deliberately
developmental learning
system
Coming Full CIRCLE
Learning Challenge = Navigate permanent WHITEWATER
Challenges
are
Less
Predictable
Knowledge
Is
Less
Reliable
VUCA
Vortex
The Law of DIMINISHING ASTONISHMENT
Experiencing the Power of ORTHODOXY
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