escaping the age of speed: new paradigms of learning as impacted by social technologies

Escaping the Age of Speed:New Paradigms of Learning

as Impacted bySocial Technologies

CEO Teemu Arina / Dicole Ltd.2007-11-14

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Who am I?

“Knowledge is power”

Francis Bacon

“Growing new knowledge and connections is power”

Teemu Arina

Dicole Knowledge Work Environment

Areas FeedsWikisBlogs

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The past:speed and repetition, rather than

learning and innovationspeed

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Speed as Absolute Value

Frederic II (King of Sicily 1197–1250)

Photo: Vatican Library

De Arte Venandi cum Avibus(On the Art of Hunting With Birds)

Falcons

One of the fastest creatures on earth

Photo: Kalense Kid

Photo: Mike Wood

Horse wagons vs. Iron horsesTowards mechanical speed and predictive control

"good luck, success, prosperity, advancement”- Online Etymology Dictionary

1300 - To go fast1382 - Full speed1569 - To send forth with quickness1856 - To increase the work rate of1866 - Gear of a machine1891 - One who drives fast1965 - Speed reading1967 - Methamphetamine, caffeine etc.

Photo: Ben McLeod

Speed

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The past:speed and repetition, rather than

learning and innovationrepetition

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An Inconvenient Truth about Schooling

Artist: Lotta Viitaniemi, Story: Kim Forsman & Teemu Arina Ⓒ Dicole Ltd.

Artist: Lotta Viitaniemi, Story: Kim Forsman & Teemu Arina Ⓒ Dicole Ltd.

Today each of us lives several hundred years in a decade

Photo: Lakerae

Marshall McLuhan(1911-1980)

Time

Changes in society

Ability of education to adapt

Problem

The Noble Lie

Ref: Plato, Republic, thanks to Tere Vaden

Rulers

Farmers etc.

Auxiliaries (guardians)

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Noble lie today:Successful organizations need management,

middle management and workers

Schools educate people to fill clearly-definedpositions in organizations

Organization vs. Disorganization

Photos: shapeshift, Wikimedia

• Open Source infrastructure• Linux vs. Windows• Wikipedia vs. Britannica• P2P vs. centralized delivery• Digg vs. editorial control

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Ivan Illich(1996)

We might already be beyond the age of speed, by moving into the age of 'real-time'.

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Social Media

Social Objects Connect People

ContinuousOccasional

Beat Hum

Particle Wave

Videos Blog posts Photos Microblogging Presence

Ref: Jyri Engeström

Anatomy of an Organisation as an Organism

SkeletonAutomation, Real-

time processes, Operative

technologies - Back-bone for business processes

Ref: Teemu Arina, Illustration: Lotta Viitaniemi

SensesBlogs, Microblogs,

Social bookmarking - Reflection in and on action

Nervous systemFeeds, Search, APIs -

Sharing, discovering and tapping into reflections

BrainWikis, tagging -

Connecting and remixing reflectons

Blood systemSocial networking,

Real-time communications,

Network analysis - Optimizing interaction flow

Muscles = Resources?

Neuroplasticity of Organizations

“Changes that occur in the organization [of the brain] as a result of experience”

Ref: Andrew Mason

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The past:speed and repetition, rather than

learning and innovationlearning

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Learning in the age of real-time

Knowledge work becomes

network work

Complementing information with interaction

Vertical communication and information systems

Helpdesk, support, training, intranet, documentation, best practice databases...

Horisontal interaction and social software

Peer production, sharing narratives, cooperative problem-solving, social navigation, social networking...

Not enough in a complex human system!

“Information overload is an opportunity for pattern recognition” – Marshall McLuhan

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Pattern Recognition

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Serendipic Learning

Informal learning

Parasitic Learning

Learner using someone as a teacher through virtual means without the knowledge or consensus of the host

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Fast learning... or slow learning?

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The past:speed and repetition, rather than

learning and innovationinnovation

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Innovation Dilemma

Focus. Purpose. Clarity. Commitment.

Innovation is thought to belike speeding on a tightrope

Throwing darts?...Photo: Will hybrid

...or morelike drivinga bicycle?

Photo: Pörrö

Many organizations look like this

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Greatest innovation of our time is not going to be based on technology, but process

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New Ways of Innovating

Photo: JJay

Top-down Innovation Bottom-up Innovation

Inspiration Executives Customers

DriversExisting assets, products

and positioningDeep observation of

customer needs

Interaction Structured and controlled Spontaneous

Strategy Go to the customer Invite and engage customer

Process Linear well-defined Emergence

TechniquesMarket research, surveys,

focus groups

Online communities, crowdsourcing, peer-

production, search, blogging

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Command & Control

becomes

Collaboration and Communication

Crowdsourcing

Taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined,

generally large group of people

Photo: Hugo*

Goldcorp Inc. story

Example: Dell IdeaStorm

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Future of Mankind

Technology as an extension of the body

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Marshall McLuhan(1911-1980)

Human Evolution

Homo Habilis2.5m - 1.8m years agoBrain: 500 - 800 cc

Tools

Homo Sapiens250k years agoBrain: 1000-1850 cc

Art, writing, speech

Homo Erectus1.8m - 70k years agoBrain: 950 - 1100 cc

Advanced tools

“Man the Wise” - Carl Linneaus

Homo Contextus

Contextus = connected or weaved together

Context = Circumstances in which an event occurs

Homo habilis → Homo sapiens: Brain size increases physically

Homo sapiens → Homo contextus: Brain size increases virtually

Photo: Don J. McCrady

Connected human escapes the physical limitations of human commubication with modern

network technologies and distributes its cognition

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”

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Contact info

CEO Teemu ArinaDicole Ltd.050 – 555 7636teemu@dicole.comBlog: tarina.blogging.fiwww.dicole.com

• Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers (Robert Scoble)

• The Medium is the Message (Marshall McLuhan)• Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation (Ralph

Stacey)• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Thomas Friedman)• Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance

(Jay Cross)• Deschooling Society (Ivan Illich)• The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth (Clayton Christensen)• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (Christopher Locke)• Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Henry Jenkins)• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yochai

Benkler)• Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape (Henry Chesbrough)• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (Chris Anderson)• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Don Tapscott)• Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (Clayton

Christensen)• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

(Carlota Perez)• The Social Life of Information (John Seely Brown)• Wisdom of the Crowds (James Surowiecki)• Complexity and Innovation in Organizations (Jose Fonseca)

Reading

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Collision ofOld and New

Business Cannibalism

Luddites

Convergence culture

Content is only a shared object for relationships

Madonna