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 MetaphorsTRANSCRIPT
Everything is a Metaphor @fredgarnett
#restartedu What is this?
A Roman Road? Of course!
But first it was a Greek Canal
And next a Persian Postal Service
Only then a way of conquering Europe
Your metaphors change how you seeYour metaphors change how you seeAffected by; Affected by; •Cultural ContextCultural Context•ValuesValues•Meaning Meaning •PurposePurpose
What Metaphors are you designing for?What Metaphors are you designing for?
Active & Knowledgeable
New MetaphorsThree 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
Old but from the future
Three Old Projects with new metaphors• Creekside Education Trust; an NGO promoting
environmental education thru urban ecology• TaLENT; A Community Grid for Learning
teaching teachers how to use Internet• Citizen Connects; A local government initiative
to promote digital citizenship
Three Old Projects with new metaphors
Creekside Education Trust; an NGO promoting an NGO promoting environmental education thru environmental education thru urban urban ecology
TaLENT; A A Community Grid Community Grid for for Learning teaching teaching teachers teachers how to how to use the Internetuse the Internet
Citizen Connects; A local government initiative to promote digital citizenship
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
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
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”
The Open Context Model of Learning
Pedagogy; subjects, facts, teaching, cognition
Andragogy; collaboration, negotiation, meta-cognition
Heutagogy; research, creativity, epistemic cognition
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TeacherTeacher
SchoolSchool
Teacher/Teacher/LearnerLearner
LearnerLearner
ResearchResearch
CognitionCognition EpistemiEpistemic c
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Meta-Meta-CognitioCognitio
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AdultAdult
Heutagogy & Innovation
Heutagogy creates new metaphors; • moving criteria across contexts• Interdisciplinary; learning from &
working with other disciplines• creating the (participatory) future
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 Emerge6) Innovation is Inefficient;7) Innovation Emerges From The Bottom Up;New Metaphors need new collaborations
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
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
How to be Successful
DO StuffDiscussReflect CHANGE Together
A Way of Conquering Europe?
Is your metaphor;Is your metaphor;• A ConnectionA Connection•A SystemA System•A Way forwardA Way forward• AmbitiousAmbitious
Who are your Metaphors for?Who are your Metaphors for?
My ideas / Your ideas
@fredgarnettComments, text & links;
http://crosquals.wordpress.com Ideas; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/Blog; http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/Future Ideas; NeXT-2021Email; [email protected]
Everything is a MetaphorEverything is a MetaphorA talk by @fredgarnettA talk by @fredgarnettFor @crosro For @crosro The #restartedu The #restartedu ImaginariumImaginariumBucharest, Romania, February 2012Bucharest, Romania, February 2012““Hello Budapest” Hello Budapest” < <might be a joke…might be a joke…