Reflections on the difference between disruptive capitalism and digital transformations. A fuller version of I Am Disruptive, Digital, adding in ideas from the online session with University of Salford and resolving them into a coherent presentation. Thanks to co-presenter Graham Attwell, organiser Chriss Nerantzi and technical guru Cristina Costa

1. I Am Disruptive – We Are #Digital
@fredgarnett

2. Learning is disruptive of education
#Learning prepares you to cope with
surprises
Educationprepares you to cope with
certainty
@stephenheppell in the Future of Learning
October 2012
The future of learning in networked society
http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/learning_education

3. Disruption originates in economics
Schumpeter
thinks disruption enables capitalism to renew itself
through continuous innovation &creative
destruction
Kondratieff
Thinks disruption is based on long-wave
economic change over 50 years caused by key
‘meta-technologies’ – the micro-processor was
invented in 1971
Surprise! We are now in the most disruptive
phase of the impact of the micro-processor
Joseph Schumpeter & Innovation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumpeter#Schumpeter_and_innovation

4. Disruption applied to education
Clayton Christenson
A Harvard Professor thinks disruption is about
renewing the business model of education using
learning technologies as
‘disruptive innovations’
New technologies enable university distance
learning delivery to scale, without challenging
subject-based pedagogy, providing a new
business model based on
globalisation&massification
Disruptive Innovations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

5. Disruption applied to pedagogy
Paolo Freire
thinks it is about critical pedagogies re-
enfranchising learners
Cathy Davidson at HASTAC
thinks it is about unlearning so we can relearn;
This is your brain on the Internet
Paolo Friere Critical Pedagogy Cathy Davidson Paradigm Shift; This is Your Brain
on the Internet – Video

6. Disruption applied to knowledge
Stephen Downes
thinks it is connectivist knowledge
George Siemens
thinks it is MOOCs
Dave Cormier
thinks it is Rhizomes
AND
Putting Context into Knowledge

7. Disruption applied to hierarchies
Level Responsibility Aim
Strategic Senior Technical Enabling
Managers Infrastructure Platform
Staff Course Learning Learning
Team Resources Ecology
Students Students New Resource
Union Technologies Discovery
By Technology Steward in Digital Habitats like @thomcochrane

8. Disruption applied to metaphors
Fred Garnett
MOOCS
thinks it about
inventing new
metaphors so you
Rhizomes
can design your
own future
Heutagogy
Contexts
Everything is a Metaphor
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/everything-is-a-metaphor

9. Challenging boundaries;
Making Curricula, Organisation, Administration Liminal

10. Disruption From What? To What?

11. Disruption applied to Education
What
Do you
Think?

12. Disruption applied to Education
So Disruption needs;
New Distance Learning Resources
New Business Models
Globalisation
Competition
Capitalism
You!

13. Disruption applied to Learning
Digital Disruption needs;
Critical Pedagogies
New Collaborations
Human-Scale
Peer-to-Peer
Social
Us!
Smart Mobs + Everything is Miscellaneous = Here Comes Everybody

14. SURPRISE!