Reading the Context: Becoming Fluent in AI through play
Our model of learning is changing. Play becomes a space of invention and permission.
A space to discover and try out new things. Curiosity is a new agent of learning. A library is a community hub, where thinkers, dreamers and doers can come together to seek solutions to the grand challenges facing this world. It offers spaces custom-built for collaboration, equipped with cutting-edge tools to make concepts oncrete. Download the slides >>
The 21st century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. By exploring play, innovation, and the cultivation of the imagination as cornerstones of learning, the authors create a vision of learning for the future that is achievable, scalable and one that grows along with the technology that fosters it and the people who engage with it. The result is a new form of culture in which knowledge is seen as fluid and evolving, the personal is both enhanced and refined in relation to the collective, and the ability to manage, negotiate and participate in the world is governed by the play of the imagination.
“Imagination Networks” – An Animated John Seely Brown (JSB)
You Play World of Warcraft? You’re Hired! Wired, April 2006
How World of Warcraft Could Save Your Business and The Economy (big think)
see also: Play of Imagination (PDF) w/ JSB’s highlights
The Play of Imagination: Beyond the Literary Mind (PDF) with Douglas Thomas
Playfulness and Innovation (Bedley brothers interview) Feb 2015
CLASSIC: Learning for a World of Constant Change: Homo Sapiens, Homo Faber & Homo Ludens revisited (annotated version) Douglas Thomas & John Seely Brown University of Southern California (paper presented at the 7th Glion Colloquium, June 2009)