MLearning: learning on the move

Education as we know it, is increasingly becoming a resisting and numbing force to liberating the collective intelligence potential and the disruptive capabilities that new media technologies have made recently available to us.

Knowledge sharing, cooperation, critical and inquisitive minds, innovation and diversity are all skills that few academic institutions cultivate, nurture and pass onto their students.

As we insist on imposing a standardized curriculum on individuals having the most diverse interests, passions, talents and backgrounds, we only breed homogeneous thinking, shallow research, little new exploration and a deep lack of skilled and sustained critical thinking talent.

Even to a kid, this approach to learning looks like something that is a left-over from our past, not a knowledgeable choice of how to best educate ourselves in these technology-rich and highly interconnected new times.

And as more and more people live their daily lives while moving, commuting, traveling for work or leisure, just-in-time access to what you need to know becomes increasingly an asset modern people can't do away with.

But as business workers interpret just-in-time, on-the-move information access a "given" of their ecosystem, educational institutions and schools certainly have not been looking positively at the array of just-in-time learning opportunities that mobile media devices can deliver to anyone.