OECD Schooling

OECD offers three broad scenarios for the future structure schooling (via Stephen Downes): status-quo, re-schooling, and de-schooling. When addressing de-schooling, the report presents a very short indication of what I think the model will likely be: “Learning Networks and the Network Society”. While the report presents this as largely a function of technology, learning networks are not solely reliant on technology. Learning groups like Toastmasters, self-help groups for treating addiction and anxiety, parenting groups, and so on, all function on a network model. The primacy of the node in an ecology of freedom is what makes networks and learning work. And it scales…small groups dividing and replicating according to needs of members. Contrast that with many classrooms…