Learning fitness instructors will help learners build and strengthen the basic cognitive,
emotional, and social abilities essential to learning by using simulations, biofeedback,
and hands-on activities to reduce stress, hone mental capabilities, and learn brain-friendly
nutrition.
Assigned by certified local education agencies, such as schools, resource centers,
and libraries, or selected and contracted by families, personal education advisors
help families create, nurture, and maintain personal learning ecologies.
Community intelligence cartographers will tap the collective intelligence of their
local communities. They will leverage social networking strategies to develop swarms
and smart mobs in order to identify emerging learning opportunities in the community,
organize community members, and locate community resources.
Education sousveyors will keep the learning process transparent and will stimulate
public discussion around it. Through mechanisms such as blog posts, pictures, podcasts,
and videos, they will keep learning on the forefront of stakeholders’ minds.
Social capital platform developers will link the social capital infrastructure to
teaching and learning practices and outcomes. They will use tracking programs to
provide an accounting of people’s contributions to open education resources and
collaborative processes.
Students who test for compatible personalities but who have different cognitive
strengths will be matched to support each other throughout the year, maintaining
a constant thread amid shifting peer relationships.
Learning journey mentors will work with personal education advisors, learning fitness
instructors, community intelligence cartographers, and assessment designers to co-create
and navigate learning itineraries with small groups of students.
Using social networks and insights into cognitive functioning, assessment designers
will create appropriate methods for evaluating media literacy, learning discovery
journeys, and other innovative forms of instruction.