Hopefully this brief post will act as a marker of progress rather than just a register of the current limitations of the UK education system. To regard it as anything except a critical element within a wider digital literacy framework, and to attempt to teach it alongside an antiquated, generally programme-specific ICT education is to short change our learners, and to fail to recognise the technological, social and economic shifts that have take place globally. Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one.

What is the relationship with this idea that education is handing down a general base of knowledge? We need a shift towards an education system that is about listening to what the learners are bringing into the school situation, as well as thinking about an education system that is pushing things out.” 8221; * Education is diverging from schooling “Education, For the citation sources, go here . * Schools need to open up to peer-based learning models “When 8220;When you look at children’s learning outside school, it is driven by

Philipp Schmidt for the Free Culture Research Workshop at Harvard University, 23 October 2009. Philipp Schmidt: “Much free culture research has focused on the incentives that compel individuals to participate in commons-based peer production, the governance of peer production communities, open innovation processes, and the intersection of law with technology and society. An field that deserves more focused attention, and which has the potential to become a key driver From a short essay by J. The author is affiliated with and cofounder of P2PU.org.

Previously, Surinder wrote a blog post on his observations about different cultural expectations and implicit communication patterns.  He discussed some ways that virtual team leaders could help limit cultural snafus in teams. As more companies are working with partners around the world and multicultural teams occur more and more often, understanding of cultural differences is important for team members and leaders — for both face-to-face Companies are purchasing seminars to help educate expatriates and those working in varying cultural contexts. (See

This is true across generations and the impacts are significant on our culture and our world. think if this blog post from Lisa, who I met in June at an educational tech conference in Hawaii. Tags: Digital Habitats collaboration communities of practice community creativity culture of love facilitation graphic facilitation knowledge sharing learning networks online facilitation online interaction social media technology stewardship visual thinkin This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

The Aug 11 Topic: Fostering culture in and around online communities I wanted to touch on negative influences of Online Community culture, and hopefully shed some insight in to how to manage these influences. This post is based on our Online Community Culture study in October of 2008 , which is part of the ongoing research agenda of the Online Community Research Network. This post is part of the #OCTribe series, intended to spark discussion amongst community practitioners on a bi-monthly topic. This week's "call to post" was initiated by Scott Moore:

In a contribution to a discussion at TechDirt on the implications of a new DRM system proposed for monitoring usage of Associated Press articles, James Boyle formulates a interesting hypothesis on the cultural bias against openness. James Boye: “In my new book, The Public Domain I argue that we have a measurable cognitive bias against “openness” — I call it cultural agoraphobia, and I argue that it impedes us in understanding the creative potential, productive processes and forms of social organization that the web makes possible . The source of that bias (by which I mean a demonstrated tendency to ignore certain kinds of possibilities in a way that the data does not support) probably lies in the fact that most of our experiences with property come from physical goods — sandwiches that 1000 people cannot share, absent divine intervention, fields that might be overgrazed or underused if not subject to single entity control.

Day: Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company Subscribe to this blogs feed « Human Resources Challenges on a Global Scale | Main | Harnessing The Power Of Informal Employee Networks » October 05, 2007 Building a Culture of Collaboration An age-old truism: tools help (sometimes to a great degree), but organizational dynamics trump technology in terms of establishing effective collaboration efforts. And HR can certainly help set the context for cultural change

Henry Jenkins posted this today about participatory culture: Critical Information Studies For a Participatory Culture (Part One) Last 8243; has become increasingly institutionalized as the definitive account of the business plans and cultural practices defining the digital realm in the early 21st century. O’Reilly’s concept is now spreading APRIL 8, 2009 Critical Last Saturday, I spoke at a conference being organized by the Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia, Connections: The Future of Media Studies.

GINKS should not educate people on ICT4D, but rather help members to do so. As I said in an earlier blogpost , Mr. Boateng who is a board member of GAPVOD, the NGO umbrella organisation of Ghana, gave an excellent and inspiring talk about networks in Ghana. Though not all networks in Ghana have learning at their core, as communities of practice have, I think it is interesting to explore where these dynamics stimulate or inhibit communities of practice within networks.