Learn Play Love

More grist for the learner directed approach. This post is an interview with Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown the authors of A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. Aimed at educators there are lessons for all of us in the profession of supporting learning. I am off to buy the book soon

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A New Culture of Learning may be for the Digital Media and Learning movement what Thomas Paine's Common Sense provided for the American Revolution -- a straight forward, direct explanation of what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against. John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas lay out a step by step argument for why learning is changing in the 21st century and what schools need to do to accommodate these new practices. Using vivid narratives of people, institutions, and practices at the heart of the changes and drawing from a growing body of literature outlining new pedagogical paradigms, they place the terms of the argument in language which should be accessible to lay readers, offering a book you can give to the educator in your life who wants to become an agent of change. My hope is that our schools will soon embrace the book's emphasis on knowing, making, and playing. Read more at henryjenkins.org