You can see his keynote at Web 2.0 Expo in SF.

http://tinyurl.com/cogsur

The idea of Cognitive Surplus is interesting. He is the author of Here Comes Everybody (spot the Finnegans Wake reference…). You can also hear a talk of his book at the RSA site here. (File plays at the bottom of this post – Credit: RSA)

Now I saw this talk on the on the CITE JOURNAL page here.  It was in the context of Informal/ Formal learning and the use of interactive digital media.

I have added it to the Naace CP list of Digo links with notes and commentry. This is a list of interactive educational links I have been building over the years at Naace. If you are a Naace member contact me to access it.

While I agree with him in general I think the mouse analogy is pretty 20th Century too. Devices to adapt, read and interact with media will be embedded in “phones”, devices, clothes and the body before long. And they will be outside of school networks in distributed networks co-opted into institutions whereby the user responsibility will take the heavy loads through informality but be bound into the institution.

The future is interactive media in distributed networked form beyond and inside the formal school networks. What people still haven’t understood is that these forms of media are increasingly the lifeblood of pupils and an extension of their day to day activities; they can be co-opted to work for education rather than against. It’s interesting to see this kind of social commentry coming out at last. I have been observing this behaviour informally for at least 5 years now and wonder when people in the educational establishment will begin to “get it”. Well still not anyday now but it will flow over exisiting institutions within two years is my latest guess. So it’ll be adapt or die.

Sound far fetched – I doubt it.