Here is the scenario cluster and the original image notes for 'Make it experiential' scenario. So we'd like to see if we can expand on this over the next few days & then we'll throw in some additional questions.

We have experiential learning, making things together in multi generational learning communities.....what else would you like to add?

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A significant aspect of this scenario was offered by Bryan Alexander as "appropriate technology". There was a sense here that childhood education in this scenario was about children learning to use, build and manipulate technology for various purposes, and learning what "appropriate" means while doing it.

Instead of passive recipients of technology, technology controlling children, children learn to develop, control and use technology. As part of the maker movement, complexity is scalable, from arts and crafts to building robots and drones. This is embedded in a community context where kids are designing and building things their community needs. This education facilitates kids actively inquiring and problem solving.

Your thoughts?

Looks good to me! I'd add that this seems to me to be another post-industrial view of childhood education.

Question 1. You’ve woken up in this scenario (whether you like it or not....!). What is a day in the life of a student, teacher or parent like?

Good summary, indeed. I would stress multi-generational learning communities (thanks, Marcus, Garerth for the term!) - appropriate technology is the material side of the above human power. I guess this is what differetiates this scenario from 'the Utopian promise': that is a transcendential relation among people (the 'unknown') while this is the most human, linking the spirits of different generations and making a learning environment for all of them - and hence spiritual in its wider sense. Appropriate technology (excellent term also) is the way how these strong communities operate and sustain. Anyway, for me these two scearios may overlap and co-exist.

I’m imaging an “ELF” (elected lead facilitator, formally teacher) leading the annual bug exploration excursion. Taking a mixture of sticks and basic traps for the youngest to play with, while the older children can use the augmented reality sets to explore the sense from the view point of a bee, or may be see inside an ants nest. The day culminates with an addition to the schools hive sculpture, now in its 50th year of growth. The older kids explain the significance of the sculpture for the local area, the next group drafts the design and the youngest make the actual addition to the sculpture.

Question 2 - Who are the winners, elite and privileged? Who are the losers, lost and disowned?