Chat (GHO) with Brad Ovenell-Carter [5 June 2015]
Some references for the record…
“cities are effectively immortal, while corporations (like humans) are mortal” —Geoffrey West https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:18cc4f99c1c5 https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:geoffreywest/
“Public Education is Like the Roman Empire” http://www.ovenell-carter.com/uncategorized/public-education-is-like-the-roman-empire/
Crash Only http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5750 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/10/29/crash-only-thinking/
TO PONDER (and expand on this collection): hyper-local decision-making https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hyperlocal
“In praise of cheating!” http://www.ovenell-carter.com/uncategorized/in-praise-of-cheating/
Belatedness, Borges, and Kenneth Goldsmith on Uncreative Writing https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:belatedness https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:43565a682f32 https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kennethgoldsmith
Remix Culture (with Yoko Ono at the top) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:remixculture/
“Networked games like Pokemon support specialization, development of personalized relationships to the content, and depth expertise.” —Mimi Ito https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pokemon/t:mimiito
Kieran Egan and learning in depth: https://www.sfu.ca/~egan/Learningdepth.html https://books.google.com/books?id=Sr__maQU0REC http://www.utne.com/politics/utne-reader-visionaries-kieran-egan-learning-in-depth.aspx
Students in their first days of schooling are to be more or less arbitrarily assigned a topic, which they will study till leaving school, in addition to the usual curriculum. So one child might be given the topic of medieval footwear, or the rings of Saturn, or dust, or apples, or mollusks, or food production, or ancient Persian pottery, or leaves, and so on.
Every month during their life at school, students would work on their portfolio with a teacher. An hour each month, or perhaps a little more frequently if necessary, would be laid aside for consultations, and the student might informally discuss problems between official portfolio times. At the end of each year students would be expected to make a presentation on their topic. If a student has been discussing a topic with a friend, they might jointly make a presentation, such as the leaves on apple trees, or dust in the rings of Saturn.
By the time they graduate from school the students will be well informed about something. Indeed, each student will know close to as much about some specific topic as almost anyone on earth. They will also recognize that the topic about which they have such expertise is something that has expanded so vastly in their understanding that they realize they know next to nothing about it.”
Fandom https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fandom
Principle Drift (especially after attempts at cultural/organizational change) http://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/109955815248/
“Boundary Holders” http://www.ovenell-carter.com/uncategorized/education-is-now-an-emergent-culture/
TO PONDER (maybe with the help of these collections: Cultural Identity: how is a new idea who we are? How does technology factor in? https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:behavior/t:change