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4.0 Fourth Industrial Revolution in response to education in the re-imagined learning
ecosystem

The 4 th industrial revolution and its accompanying innovations in making meaning as envisaged
by artificial intelligence and robotics in machine learning spark the urge in the need for global
academic or non -academic ecosystems to create deep and lifelong trajectories that will not be
enslaved by machines but will rather instill and propagate creative skills that will transcend beyond
machines and exploit them without the opinionated paradoxical ideology with dehumanizing
effects and threats towards the protracted contribution to labor which human man beings have
since time immemorial continued to creatively partake in.

The constructivist approach to learning espouses the ability of a person to achieve self-liberating
authentic and differentiated kinds of learning by engaging in a learning environment where there
is technology, collaboration, and communication. This piques the curiosity of learners at the
expense of the teacher and due to the context in which the current cohort of learners who are called
the digital natives are programmed because of the proliferation of the internet of things which they
are now accustomed to. Thus the teachers play the role of facilitators in learning by providing to
learners accessibility to more diverse channels of learning management systems.

5.0 Technology and the internet of things (IoT)

Through the use of devices that make learning affordances to technology possible and the trajectory
in which life is taking knowledge and information is more proximal than ever and is within
anyone’s fingertips anytime and anyone. Web2.0,3.0 and 4.0 have changed the way consumers of
information access information for conversion into knowledge through the so-called mushrooming
interfaces such as wiki links and weblogs whereby anyone can now contribute and edit information
on these learning platforms. These learning management systems have also evolved from being
monolithic to being dynamic and thus becoming ubiquitous.

According to Hannon et al(2011:03 )

“Changing even faster is the ease of access to information from any device with an internet
connection .Until recently that meant a computer in a fixed location or at best a laptop .Now it
might be a smart phone or a tablet .Internet -connected devices are expected to become ubiquitous
to the point of invisibility over the next decade”.

This has led to the disinter-mediation of education since the introduction of education 2.0.

Also coincidentally technology use has been accelerated in the wake of the scourge brought by the
corona virus pandemic has rendered people immobile and escalated more dependence on the use
of social network systems for all modes of communication as the only scapegoat. This has proven
the all-pervasive and indispensable practicality of technology by productive exploitation of the
internet of things for communication.

70:20:10 model by Charles Jennings

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