Thursday, September 18, 2008

Chapter 1: The Art and Science of Peer Production

"The new mass collaboration is changing how companies and societies harness knowledge and capability to innovate and create value. This affects just about every sector of society and every aspect of management."

The authors go on to discuss the concepts of openness, peering, sharing and acting globally -- ideas that defy conventional wisdom in the business world. How can these concepts apply in education? Can you envision a "collaboration economy" for schools?

Please post your 3-2-1 reflection as a comment.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

3 Things New To Me:
a. Promising new world or those that collaborate and peril for those that don't. I didn't really think about the negative for those who don't use online collaboration.
b.How me must embrace constant change as professionals. How fast will things move?
c. P.18 What most people think collaboration really is meeting and talking. But it is now becoming what the author calls "peer production".

2 Things that are important:
a. I can see how the embracing of constant change idea will be hard for the generation of teachers before me to understand and it will be a common topic of discussion.
b. Asking myself, "How well do we really collaborate". It seems as if we don't create, refine, rework an end product, we don't really collaborate in today's world.

1 Thing I might change:
a. What I bring to the table at team meetings. Bring materials for us all to look at, refine and repackage as a new product.

Anonymous said...

3 things I learned:
a. Things are changing fast! Example: Schenzen province in China--ten years ago it was farmland tilled with oxen. Today it is a high-tech campus!
b. keeping up with the change will be essential to economic (and educational?) success.
c. "lift millions out of poverty" (17). Can it really? That would be cool.

2 things that apply to me as a teacher:
a. empowering media creation (13).
b. change or die! If we in education do not keep up with the pace of change, we are in danger of becoming irrelevant.

1 thing I will change:
I will try to use this new collaboration to inform my teaching.

Anonymous said...

3 Things I've learned:

a: Studies show that Wikipedia has fewer mistakes than subscription encyclopedias.

b. "PLC" is being done in businesses as well as schools

c. I learned what the differences were between web 1.0 and web 2.0

2 Things that are important

a. "Going Global" isn't only for business, but also for individuals

b. Businesses that adapt to the environment (global, political, etc..) survive.

1 Thing I might change

I would like to communicate more with teachers from other parts of the world