Even today in 2016 this talk is needed. Thank you for the inspiration, +David Wiley. (tagging does not work in comments, so this is purely symbolic, like lighting a lighter in a Led Zeppelin concert).
You don't just have to give your resources, you can also give your TIME! To the extend that we give, to the extend that we're open, education will be improved... Great speech
"Openness is about being generous." "Openness is the only means of doing education." "...first time in human history we find that both the expertise and the expressions of expertise are able to be given without being given away."
I love the openness movement and I am a proponent, but being a professor myself, can't help but wonder how we'll feed our families after we've given away for free all that we do? I was hoping he would address how we'd pay professors in a free and open education world.
Think 1 gear higher & faster. They exchange money/bread their father is baking/etc. in exchange for you coaching them to get to know as efficiently as possible what they need/want to know. As performers in the Educational landscape we know better than anybody else what is probably useful to know and how to build up / deconstruct knowledge, right? So everybody - parents and students - pretty much agree that we know probably best. Probably we know the 80% what student of grade x would find useful to know/to acquire. We know where they came from last year, and where want to bring them next year to the next teacher. First we teach people why it is important to learn and the 80% of what has stood the test of time to be useful to acquire by what age. If necessary you explain them why it is so expensive: because you have to do research, lab tests, need expensive material, etc. We enroll them. Unless they are ok sitting under a tree? I hope they'll help fund a blackboard, paper, teaching material and an umbrella for me when it's raining? And if I first have to go hunting, gather food, baking bread etc. I'm not sure at what time I'll arrive to start teaching your kids? And by the way: in the school next doors they teach in an old style way of teaching, closed, ex-cathedra, rote learning,etc. No internet, etc. You can send your kids there, or come to our team of teachers, we teach empowered with and by technology, with the internet, we show them where to get neat stuff to learn, how to learn faster. But feel free to send your kids to the school nextdoors? Greetz from the olpc community ! One Laptopschool Per Child.
Even today in 2016 this talk is needed. Thank you for the inspiration, +David Wiley. (tagging does not work in comments, so this is purely symbolic, like lighting a lighter in a Led Zeppelin concert).
You don't just have to give your resources, you can also give your TIME! To the extend that we give, to the extend that we're open, education will be improved... Great speech
Isn't sharing what education is all about?
Very glad to see your message making it across traditional borders that surround the academy.
And nicely done, too!
Good one Dave, what you say starting at 10 minutes was critical I think.
"Openness is about being generous."
"Openness is the only means of doing education."
"...first time in human history we find that both the expertise and the expressions of expertise are able to be given without being given away."
I love the openness movement and I am a proponent, but being a professor myself, can't help but wonder how we'll feed our families after we've given away for free all that we do? I was hoping he would address how we'd pay professors in a free and open education world.
We need to be more generous in our thankfulness to the people who have shared with us, too.
Think 1 gear higher & faster. They exchange money/bread their father is baking/etc. in exchange for you coaching them to get to know as efficiently as possible what they need/want to know. As performers in the Educational landscape we know better than anybody else what is probably useful to know and how to build up / deconstruct knowledge, right? So everybody - parents and students - pretty much agree that we know probably best. Probably we know the 80% what student of grade x would find useful to know/to acquire. We know where they came from last year, and where want to bring them next year to the next teacher. First we teach people why it is important to learn and the 80% of what has stood the test of time to be useful to acquire by what age. If necessary you explain them why it is so expensive: because you have to do research, lab tests, need expensive material, etc. We enroll them. Unless they are ok sitting under a tree? I hope they'll help fund a blackboard, paper, teaching material and an umbrella for me when it's raining? And if I first have to go hunting, gather food, baking bread etc. I'm not sure at what time I'll arrive to start teaching your kids? And by the way: in the school next doors they teach in an old style way of teaching, closed, ex-cathedra, rote learning,etc. No internet, etc. You can send your kids there, or come to our team of teachers, we teach empowered with and by technology, with the internet, we show them where to get neat stuff to learn, how to learn faster. But feel free to send your kids to the school nextdoors? Greetz from the olpc community ! One Laptopschool Per Child.