just notes...
- Will Richardson: the "group forming" thesis is easy for people to get their brains around.
- crowd sourcing open source
- ohn in NZ: Moody and other keynoters at the Free Open Source Conference in Wellington made great points about this approach having utility outside the world of software development,
- i don't think the group forming advantages of the current media can in happen in ed.
- it's something that will change the user
- need to provide places for group learning
- whatever the advantages of collaborative learning, the basic fact - is that it is a profound challenge to the idea that ed is a set of individual minds.
- for 100 yrs after the printing press it broke more things than it fixed
- easier to start from scratch outside the monastery -
John in NZ: Educon 2010
The Axioms
1. Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members
2. Our schools must be about co-creating — together with our students — the 21st Century Citizen
3. Technology must serve pedagogy, not the other way around
4. Technology must enable students to research, create, communicate and collaborate
5. Learning can — and must — be networked
go grassroots...
Will Richardson: I wonder if new ways of credentialing are imminent and if that might be the driver to a "new" system
- we had the rhetoric of personal tools since the 60's.
- asked of shirky - if changed book - what would you change? he'd leave out network to politics - because doesn't resonate with more people
- would have honed in more on people's group experiences
- use more examples - omnipresence and mobile access afforded by phones of all sorts
- phones are on the present, sms is enough
- twitter - power of rapid low band with high grade connectivity
- Pierce Presley 1: We need to remember that, per a report in WaPo today, fully a third of Americans don't have Internet access
- ubiquity isn't just 80% better - completely different -
- Fleep: 98% of our students have cell phones though
- John in NZ: Here is an example of live back channel monitoring of an event based on SMS messages: (Python Convention in Atlanta)
- filtering - buzz - david warlick posted - too many channels
- for shirky - stopping buzz was a filtering issue
- sms is to say i love you
- access to more info doesn't mean you get more - it means you need to be more choosie
- a rant about women
- 40 years into the internet as of last oct.... we're in the log growth now...
the divide i'm worried about isn't the digital divide - but the participation divide
it's not getting hold of the tech - but feeling comfortable being a participatory piece
how do we give people sense of participation, improve their ability to use tools for social value
- Damianne President: "There's no such thing as information overload. There's just filter failure." - like that
- the net is great for increasing collaborations for small groups
- for large groups - you want to reduce the amount for people to be able to work together.
- ie: wikipedia aren't collaborating - they're just adding to the pile and others are grouping.
- once you get big - what info can i successfully ignore
- Damianne President: "People aren't collaborating on Wikipedia. they're just adding to the pile and other people are integrating" - Clay ... I always have thought of wikis being collaborative by default ... makes me rethink
- clay's ny expo - on filter failure
- projects driven by intrinsic motivation
- asking clay - who are you following - cricket timber
- leonard waks: Barabasi :LINKED
- bursts
- dave hickeys essays
what he offers to ed:
clay has a unique ability to see these changes and bring us to a different understanding
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