"I am what I create."

What can we do better in schools today? Excellent talk by BIF Research Advisor John Seely Brown at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching last year. Here JSB talks about tinkering as a mode of knowledge production.

As former director of Xerox PARC, Brown was involved in most of the radical innovations that have shaped today’s world including the invention of laser printing, the entire graphic user interface [GUI], distributed computing, artificial intelligence, smart job performance aids, social software, ubiquitous computing and so on. These days, he finds himself focused on learning in the digital age by rethinking how today's kids learn, think, work, communicate and socialize.

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• Read my profile of John Seely Brown
• Good recent article written by JSB and John Hagel: How World of Warcraft Promotes Innovation. "Training programs are effective only at transferring what we already know to others. How do we create powerful platforms jointly to innovate and develop new knowledge that no one had before?" the duo ask.