Chapter 13 - Notes

Chapter 13 - Produsage in Education

Discussion of educating people on using produsage
Issues:
- Divide between people who use and understand produsage and those who don’t
- Any produsage project doesn’t get even attention to all aspects of the project. The more interesting stuff will draw more people.
- Educators must understand produsage so they can properly teach students how it is created and how to use it.

Literacy to Capability
- People must be able to consume as well as contribute to produsage (no free riders I guess)
- In order to produce literacy, the capacity must also be produced to accommodate the usage
- How would the model of education have to change to a “produsage” model.
- Role of teachers would change like the “expert”. The teacher/student dichotomy would have to change. But, “the time when information was scarce has passed”.
- It is necessary to reinvent learning as a process of collaboration.
- This requires teachers to fundamentally reposition themselves as teachers.
- Five pillars of pedagogy that this would be based on:
- Creative – ability to act as a creative co-collaborator
- Collaborative – know how to collaborate effectively
- Critical – the ability to evaluate and critique
- Combinatory – ability to combine and re-combine arifacts
- Communicative –

A Casual Collapse of Conventional Education
Teachers ultimately become facilitators

Tip of the Iceberg
- New models for self-education by produser for produsers are emerging.
- Educational institutions could be “the hierarchical tip of the heterarchical iceberg of education”
- TeacherTube – widens the rage of participants able to engage in the development and provision of teaching resources…open-source-type classrooms in which everyone contributes to the curriculum
- OpenCourseWare
- Assessment and accreditation – schools could/would maintain the role of providing assessment and accreditation, but people/learners would acquire this knowledge

Reopening Academia
Traditional academic processes are not really that different from the vision of a produsage-based paradigm: open to input and review, never really finished, etc.