Hacking is about *mis-using* certain tools to achieve a particular goal. Hackers need a great amount of creativity and are required to know really well their toolkit.
Who if not us is designated to hack education.
In the proposed session I will focus on how the disruptive cultural changes will reflect in education. There is a huge potential for innovation as often we are still embracing 19th century paradigms when it comes to educating our children. What means hacking education to you, to me? What core values drive us? What are recent developments and how can we take action.
In particular I´ll introduce the concept of hacking education as described by Fred Wilson (www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/hacking-education-continued.html) as well as the approach of "Learning by Teaching" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_by_teaching) of Jean Pol Martin.
Little I care which measures to take in order to better the educational system but rather do I focus on how everyone can/will design his own education, a life long. Which will ultimately reflect on and shape the educational systems of the future.
Many of above findings were incorporated into sofatutor.com (an educational crowd-produced video-platform I am co-founder of) which I consider one of many steps into an evolving eco-system of educators and learners, at the same time. In our session we shall explore that eco-system, its implications and how to contribute to it.
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Interesting
I'm an educator too (I like the practical aproach: If it works I'll use it). I also see a growing gap in how and what we teach and what needs to be taught.
I am particulary interested in Action Learning and open source "bazaar style" learning as well as virtualisation of education (education as a service).
I've been struggling connecting my (still vague) ideas to action, and am very interested in your experiences.
Perfect
Hi,
@Ernst I believe education is an incredibly broad area. Many have experiences gained in very special contexts. Sharing those might substiate ideas - vague ideas are perfect ground!
@Kim What was it you expected before I wrote a little more about the session? I´m always curios about experiences and am definately not about box-thinking. ;)
Looking forward to seeing you all.
Good proposal...
...I do teaching on a voluenter basis, and we have "method freedom", unfortunately the school system is still in the 19th century, and when they DO come up with something now, it fails because of the box-thinking.
I've been involved in a project where we tried to utilise digital tools to provide distance learning, so I'd like to investigate this in more detail, to shed light on why we met with relative failure.
I believe that it was because the project failed to "model the social object: tutoring".