Make/AssignmentBanks/Repositories/UserGeneratedContent

The ability to leverage user-generated content is one of biggest trends in marketing, but it can also be challenging to do without puting an actionable plan in place and developing baseline metrics. But when done strategically, the results can be inspiring and rewarding. It's fun to see students and coworkers get excited, and enthusiasm is contagious.

The dark side of user generated content, the possibility that those who are asking for it don't have the best of intentions and whose intentions are guided by larger motives that have nothing to do with the learner. Dark side of the force of ds106.

Good teachers don't approach a child with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.

Just love the Jonathon Kozol quote here. I think it points to the larger context of usergenerated content. As teachers we have to allow the willynilly (what Whitehead called the romance) of random stuff to do and we also have to demand purpose and deliberate practice arising from the hive of the all possible. We need to encourage to tug on one side of the string as we tug on the other.

This just seemed to fit as a bookmark into the idea of passion directed learning. Is this what a maker bank is--a sharing of passion and self?

So what is a learner to do when faced with this. Act randomly or be focused and filtered. Or both but consciously so?

The font of deliberate practice research

This article questions an un-nuanced view of deliberate practice and introduces the idea that we need mentors and focused internal and external feedback. Play and then directed play then more play?

This is the space for deliberate practice.

User generated assignments, perhaps long form or at least longer than the Daily Create.

Categories of things to make and do each with its own specific instructions to be followed ad libitum.

Categories of things to make and do each with its own specific instructions to be followed ad libitum.