21st Century Skills, Web 2.0 and Changing the "Learningscape"

"Creating a Culture of Learning", John Seely Brown's forward to Opening Up Education: the Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content and Open Knowledge (Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar, eds) provides a great framework for thinking about course design changes. Brown acknowledges that many current teaching approaches fail to capture the 21st century student's mind, experiences and facility with Web 2.0 technology. He positions Web 2.0 tools within the emerging "learningscape", one in which Internet based participation, collaboration and networking will help students to become active agents of their own learning processes. He says it much better and with much more detail than I can, so read on