Part of the narrative i really like to comment on is that Education systems
that were designed in the 19th century had to work around a limitation that
was contextual: a dearth of contents/knowledge. This had at least two very
concrete consequences:
1) the teacher had to "carry with him" his knowledge, and students had no
recourse but to trust/accept him as definitive that one source of knowledge.
2) Printed materials were scarce, access was toilsome, and were made to be
absolute.
These two assumptions have been dramatically called to question in the 21st
century: Scarcity of contents/knowledge is no longer a concern (as long as
you have a device and can connect to the Internet).
This takes us to the question: How do we design learning experiences that
are befitting when considering this new (and unexpected/unforeseen)
context? (Wikipedia assignments, of course) :)
Vahid.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:36 PM, Gina Bennett <bennett.gina(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks for your diligence, Vahid. The Canadian
postsecondary system is
pretty sticky about copyright issues (TOO sticky sometimes, IMO) so I
appreciate the warning. I'll build my own slides using some of yours as
inspiration & we will be sure to "keep it clean," copyright-wise.
I think many educators still consider, deep down, that access to knowledge
should not be too easy. There's this sort of view that both access &
contribution to knowledge is a privilege rather than a right. That's why I
really like your 'socio-political' slide that asks the question "Who has
the right to generate and publish knowledge?"
I'll look forward to seeing your cleaned-up version in the Commons for the
Open Education Global Conference.
All the best,
Gina
On 28 March 2018 at 12:36, Vahid Masrour <vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm afraid i made the original version of
this presentation with too
little
care for licenses, so thank you for making me
take notice of that aspect.
This is the closest presentation that has several of the slides:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/
Reaching_out_to_educational_Institutions.pdf
I would suggest you take the elements that make sense to you and create
your own slide deck from these if you want to use them in the immediate
term. I will work on an updated and cleaned-up version and post it to
Commons in the next couple of weeks, since i am preparing a presentation
for the Open Education Global Conference, which will take place in late
April.
Best Regards,
Vahid.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Pen-Yuan Hsing <penyuanhsing(a)posteo.is
wrote:
> Thanks Vahid for your presentation, I love your slides!
> Sorry if I missed it, but I wasn't able to find any license attached to
> your presentation so I can't share or use it. Do you mind releasing it
> under CC BY or CC BY-SA and maybe upload it to the Wikimedia Commons?
> Thanks!
> - Pen
>
>
> On 28/03/18 18:22, Vahid Masrour wrote:
>
>> Try again without the "[", "]" in the subject line. We are
not sure
why,
>> but the filter is finicky regarding
special characters in the subject
>> line.
>>
>> Glad to read you found the presentation useful. If you want a more
>> detailed
>> explanation of the slides, let me know!
>>
>> Thanks for taking the initiative of creating the page on outreach
wiki!
>> Let's build it up with what we find
is essential to convey to
educators
>> (what "they need to know" and
"what works when talking to educators").
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Vahid.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Gina Bennett <
bennett.gina(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> hi Vahid
>>>
>>> Thanks so much for this! I agree - the Mythbuster section in
particular
>>
has some slides very relevant to what I want to convey.
>>
>> I definitely haven't finalized my presentation yet ... it is still
almost
>>> a month away & you can be sure I won't have finalized it until the
last
>>> minute ;-)
>>>
>>> I was thinking it might be useful to collect all the great resources
&
>>
ideas contributed by members of this mailing list, into one place so
that
>> others can more easily access them. So I
went to this page on the
>> Wikimedia
>> Education resource page (
https://outreach.wikimedia.or
>> g/wiki/Education/Working_with_educators) & just added a line to get
the
>> ball rolling. I will try to
>> flesh this out 'just as soon as the rush is over.'
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Gina
>>
>> ------------
>> PS: I tried sending the above message to the mailing list but it was
>> turned back "Message rejected by filter rule match"
>> ------------
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27 March 2018 at 11:11, Vahid Masrour <vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Gina!
>>>>
>>>> I know i'm late in the thread, and it seems you have a sound plan,
but
>>>> just
>>>> in case you're still putting your slides together, allow me to
share
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>>
https://goo.gl/Dlzdsj
>>>>
>>>> The Mythbuster section in particular might be aligned with some of
the
>> things you are trying to explain.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Vahid.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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