For 22 years now I have taken the view that a networked world will need completely different modes and content of learning for all ages from eg 9 years up . I am always happy to rehearse (chris wcbn007@easynet.co.uk) this with people who wants to test extemities, and equally don't want to divert attention from less that revolutionary debates
But these are some of the dimensions:
television age dumbed us down compared with previous ages
I like the measure of personal productivity proposed at Claremont by Csikszetmihalyi -it tends to be very low eg1 or 2% - imagine just doubling that (Calremont us the University Peter Drucker resided at and we are nowhere near living up to the knowledge worler revolution Drucker mapped as possible by now)
I believe if we trained people early to use the net to find deep mentors through life and help others do likewise that would be a great start
I believe people haven't really lived in any meeting or elarning format if they haven't experienced harrison owen's open space format www.openspaceworld.com and there's really no reason why kids from 12 up shouldn't be introduced to at elast 1 day of open space a year; once you've experienced this format, it chnages how you view meetings
we cram people to exam results losing a lot of emotional and ocllaboration energies, and its unclear that much that's on the syllabus is really future proofed or practical or contextually diverse enough
All of this also needs to be seen in the context of where is globalsiation taking us if top down power ever more rules at a time when so much needs to be community up or interlocal. Almost every profession seems to me to be more interested in siloising its own complex expertise rather thahn enabling people to innovate collaboratively
a bit more on revolutions -is the web the greatest revolution ever to hit one generation worldiwde at the same time and will good or bad socnequences spiral out from this over time? at eg
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
http://globalcharters.blogspot.com