The Quantified Self and What it Means for Learning

In early April I presented (in Dutch) at the e-Learning Event about the quantified self and learning. I have now translated the slides into English as I think the topic is important enough. The presentation explains (in five parts) why the quantified self movement will have big consequences for how we will learn in the future. You can download a full resolution PDF file, watch a video (with slides) in Dutch or watch it on SlideShare:

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Below an outline of the presentation and links to all the sources I used.

Innovation

A short explanation about what an innovation manager does and how an innovation funnel works.

Scenarios

The scenario process is explained and the four scenarios that were create at the Online Educa workshop are presented.

Sources

• Learning Scenarios Website
• Scenario planning op Wikipedia

Quantified Self

The history of the quantifying yourself (and the scientist and artists experimenting with it) is shown. Consumer products show that it is now not only scientist and artist anymore.

Sources

• Quantified Self movement
• Vannevar Bush op Wikipedia
• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
• Steve Mann
• Wearable Computing: A First Step Toward Personal Imaging, an article by Steve Mann
• Gordon Bell
• MyLifeBits
• Total Recall, a book
• Remember This?, an article in the New Yorker about Gordon Bell
• Facebook Timeline
• Feltron Report
• Een interview met Nicholas Felton
• Nog een interview met Felton
• Fitbit
• Wakoopa
• Counting every moment, an article in The Economist about the Quantified Self
• Laurie Frick, experiments in self tracking

Learning

An exploration about what the quantified self might mean for learning (in organisations).

Sources

• Artistotle by Danny Hillis
• Openness and the Future of Assessment by David Wiley

Risks

There are risks around measuring yourself.

Sources

• Delete, a book
• Why we must remember to delete – and forget – in the digital age, an article in the Guardian about Delete
• The Filter Bubble
• Invisible sieve, an artikel in The Economist about the Filter Bubble
• Big Brother Awards
• Bits of Freedom