Interactic 2.0

O fato mais grave, me parece, é uma escola recorrer essencialmente ao medo, ao constrangimento e a uma autoridade articicial. Esse tratamento destrói nos estudantes o gosto pela vida, a sinceridade e a confiança em si mesmos. E gera pessoas servis.

Nada beneficiará tanto a saúde humana e aumentará as chances de sobrevivência da vida na terra quanto a evolução para uma dieta vegetariana.

Se as pessoas são boas só por temerem o castigo e almejarem uma recompensa, então realmente somos um grupo muito desprezível.

Quando um homem é capaz de guiar o automóvel em perfeita segurança enquanto beija uma mulher bonita, simplesmente deixa de dar ao beijo a atenção que merece.

O verdadeiro sinal de inteligência não é o conhecimento, e sim a imaginação.

O único lugar onde o sucesso vem antes do trabalho é no dicionário.

A coisa mais dura de entender no mundo é o Imposto de Renda.

In many ways, amplified individuals, organizations and their practices are enabling pedagogies born in the early 20th century that have not been able to find expression in the current educational system.

Many educators venturing into the amplified world find that modes of learning using social and collaborative platforms are downright inspiring - encouraging the reasons that they chose to teach.

However, education decision-makers must work to close not just the digital divide - access and familiarity with digital technologies - but also the participation gap - comfort engaging in a culture of contribution, connectivity, sharing, and massive collaboration.

Open collaborative platforms enable distributed teams and loosely connected networks to self organize and form ad hoc structures to solve problems and implement strategies.  By circulating resources openly and broadly through social networks, information tends to find the right people at the right place at the right time that allows ad hoc leaders to emerge and apply relevant expertise more quickly.  Such an open, flexible structure facilitates collective sensemaking - a practice by which knowledge and expertise that may not have been visible can rise in response to critical issues. Tools ranging from Plazes (a system that lets your social contacts know where you are, what you’re doing and when) to Moodle (an open source courseware management system) allow knowledge workers, educators, learners to form their own smart mobs and self-led teams.  The transparency of these systems also helps support a culture of beta building - rapid innovation, in which participants of a social network, distributed team, or smart mob can see information, offer critique, and help iterate solutions and strategies.  Amplified organizations will be transliterate - capable of communicating across multiple media in ways that use specific media platforms and non mediated, face-to-face interactions to develop effective and creative messages.

  Open-source assessment will prove much more powerful, incorporating multiple forms of capital and leveraging collective assessment platforms, such as reputation profiles and other forms of peer assessment and recognition of mastery.