radical participation: a smörgåsbord
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RADICALPARTICIPATION
a smörgåsbord
Dr. Doug Belshaw Web Literacy Lead Mozilla Foundation
@dajbelshaw
#durbbu #radicalparticipation
http://bit.ly/doug-durbbu
Teacher (History/ICT) Director of eLearning Researcher (Jisc) Mozilla
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A global non-profit with a mission to promote openness, innovation &
opportunity on the Web.
What’s your organisation’s MISSION?
partnership?
RADICALPARTICIPATION
RADICALadj. Esp. of change or action: going to the root or origin; touching upon or affecting what is essential and fundamental; thorough, far-reaching.
(Oxford English Dictionary)
RADICALPARTICIPATION
PARTICIPATIONn. The process or fact of sharing in an action, sentiment, etc.; (now esp.) active involvement in a matter or event, esp. one in which the outcome directly affects those taking part.
(Oxford English Dictionary)
RADICALPARTICIPATION
What would constitute radical participation
in this session?
(what are the enablers? what are the constraints?)
ARCHITECTURES OF PARTICIPATION
The term Architecture of Participation is from a 2004 article by Tim O’Reilly
“I've come to use the term ‘the architecture of participation’ to describe the nature of systems that are designed for user contribution.”
Technology can fence people in and keep people out. Mozilla attempts to be inclusive.
We use open technologies like email, IRC and the Web. Stuff that works everywhere.
What do people really mean when they say they want something to be ‘as easy to use as Facebook?’
LITERACYVALUE
From the wiki:
"Clubs" is a placeholder term. As this initiative develops, it may or may not have the trappings commonly associated with clubs. The term is just to help us hang our thoughts on a noun. It could die. Or it could be what we call it. Let's just see. Roughly, we anticipate that clubs have the following elements: • Series of activities • Lightweight community participation • Local groups globally networked • Leadership development • Integrated with other Mozilla mentor networks
Can you draw your organisation’s architecture of participation?
Image from opensourceway.com
Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
(Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile)
I would argue that the neoliberal form of mainstream universities is being imposed on the design of curricula and choice of pedagogical methods as can be seen in the course design and validation processes, the procurement of technologies and use of data, the imposition of an 'employability' agenda, and so on. Student as Producer is an attempt to counter this... and at the same time suggests that simply redesigning curricula and having students working alongside academics on research projects is insufficient to effect radical change.
( Joss Winn, Notes on Student as Producer)
The theory is the child of the cure, not the opposite — ex cura theoria nascitur.
(Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile)
The Social Science Centre provides free public higher education in the city of Lincoln. We call teachers and students ‘scholars’ to emphasise the collective and collaborative nature of the work of the Centre. By studying with the Social Science Centre you can receive an award at the level of a higher education degree, working collectively and in collaboration with other scholars.
http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Scale, Chaordic Systems & Trust
Laura Thomson (@lxt)
Instead of having ‘all your ducks in a row’ the analogy in chaordic management is to have ‘self-organising ducks’. The idea is to give people enough autonomy, knowledge and skill to be able to do the management themselves.
There are two things Laura recommends you can do to build trust in your organisation:
1. Begin by trusting others 2. Be trustworthy
More here: http://bit.ly/1aHvXzs
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ALTERNATIVE ACCREDITATION, ASSESSMENT & LEARNING PATHWAYS
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Learning Pathways
Cow paths?
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