These are quick first thoughts from Pamela McLean.
I'd like to contribute something in this area.
It would be something about a world where very young learners (the kind of "hungry to experiment and learn" very young people that I knew when I worked with pre-school children or infant classes)grow up to be equally enthusiastic older learners.(It's said that when Picasso was asked about becoming an artist he said that everyone started out as an artist - the trick was to remain one. It's the same with being an effective and enthusiastic learner.)
It would be about living in a landscape of continuing change. It will be a lifelong dance between learning through first hand experience (a mixture of curiousity and necessity) and learning from others (through accessing "accumulated knowledge" or also reflecting with others on what is being learned and thus creating new insights and knowledge). It would all be very integrated - life. livelihoods, and learning.
It would be about the relationship between learning face-to-face and learning in online communities.
It would be based on fact and things that we're doing now, but woven together in whatever way I discover makes best sense when I start to write it.
