Everything is a Metaphor
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My presentation at the #restartedu Imaginarium organised by @crosro & @techsoupro in Bucharest Romania 25/26 February 2012 This Is My Brain on Co-creating Open Metaphors
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Everything is a Metaphor
- 1. Everything is a Metaphor @fredgarnett
- 2. #restartedu What is this?
- 3. A Roman Road? Of course!
- 4. But first it was a Greek Canal
- 5. And next a Persian Postal Service
- 6. Only then a way of conquering Europe
- 7. Your metaphors change how you see Affected by; •Cultural Context •Values •Meaning •Purpose What Metaphors are you designing for?
- 8. Active & Knowledgeable New Metaphors Three Current Projects • WikiQuals; Participative Education for Participative Democracy (myBias) • Ambient Learning City; Creating extra- institutional contexts for learning • Emergent Learning Model; Using EU Policy to redesign the Future of Learning
- 9. Old but from the future Three Old Projects with new metaphors Three Old Projects with new metaphors Creekside Education Trust; an NGO promoting Trust environmentalEducation Trust; urban ecology • Creekside education thru an NGO promoting environmental education thru urban ecology TaLENT; A A Community Grid for Learning • TaLENT; Community Grid for Learning teaching teachers how toto usethe Internet teaching teachers how use Internet • Citizen Connects; A local government Citizen Connects; A digitalgovernment initiative to promote local citizenship initiative to promote digital citizenship
- 10. Change; the Rule of Threes • Do it as you are told (DO) • Modify what you did last time (REFLECT) • Change what you did completely (CHANGE) OR Fail fast & Fail often & Learn from your experience
- 11. Brief from Vlad on New Projects • Don’t Invent a new Facebook • We did in 2001 Cybrarian working prototype • UK Govt – DfES REJECTED IT! Why? • The New Metaphor didn’t exist; The term social network did not exist then • lastfridaymob; What is “Public Technology” Creative/Interactive/Participative
- 12. Learner-Generated Contexts • But Public Technology group did not work • “Let’s reconfigure as a Research Group” • Don’t reinvent Facebook! • OK! So what’s next? From Access to Content to Context; • So design for the social context you want “a coincidence of motivations leading to agile configurations”
- 13. The Open Context Model of Learning Pedagogy; subjects, facts, teaching, cognition Andragogy; collaboration, negotiation, meta-cognition Heutagogy; research, creativity, epistemic cognition
- 14. P A H Teacher Teacher/ Learner Learner School Adult Research Cognition Meta- Epistemic Cognition Cognition
- 15. Heutagogy & Innovation Heutagogy creates new metaphors; • moving criteria across contexts • Interdisciplinary; learning from & working with other disciplines • creating the (participatory) future
- 16. Collaboration not Leadership Group Genius how creative teams work; 1) Innovation Emerges Over Time; 2) Successful Collaborative Teams Practice Deep Listening; 3) Team members build on their collaborators’ ideas; 4) Only afterwards does the meaning of each idea become clear; 5) Surprising Questions Emerge 6) Innovation is Inefficient; 7) Innovation Emerges From The Bottom Up; New Metaphors need new collaborations
- 17. Transformative Creativity “Transformative creativity results when a group thinks of a new way to frame a problem” Keith Sawyer in Group Genius Bottom Up?; use participatory design principles or participative curation Design for appropriation, design for the network, design for new use states “Solve the problem that *annoys* you most” Philippa Young
- 18. Some thoughts on Collaboration I believe in collaborations because I have been involved in many Keep the organising group small (<12) Keep the delivery group small (<150) Design for “organised complexity” Allow for emergence (non-linear dynamic systems) Develop new metaphors / new collaborations / new partnerships
- 19. How to be Successful DO Stuff Discuss Reflect CHANGE Together
- 20. A Way of Conquering Europe?
- 21. Is your metaphor; • A Connection •A System •A Way forward • Ambitious Who are your Metaphors for?
- 22. My ideas / Your ideas @fredgarnett Comments, text & links; http://crosquals.wordpress.com Ideas; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/ Blog; http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/ Future Ideas; NeXT-2021 Email; fred.garnett@gmail.com
- 23. Everything is a Metaphor A talk by @fredgarnett For @crosro The #restartedu Imaginarium Bucharest, Romania, February 2012 “Hello Budapest” <might be a joke…