"We Make the Road by Walking"
A Panel Discussion on
Synchronous and Asynchronous Uses of the Web for Educational Purposes
17 June 2005
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"Born in 1994 ... conceived as a interacting and developing system, not unlike a living organism ..."
"Serendip is ... a gathering place for people who suspect that life's instructions are always ambiguous and incomplete ... an expanding forum and continually developing set of resources to explore and support intellectual and social change in education, in social organization ... and in how one makes sense of life" What has Serendip learned, about itself? about the world around it? Or, more accurately, what have I, as one of its parents, learned from watching it grow/evolve? |
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Many of these things occur automatically in existing communities and in face to face interactions occuring synchrononously (on the web or not). And we can try to find ways to do them more effectively on Serendip and on the web generally.
General lessons from the web about building communities anywhere
Some relevant recent Serendip exhibits and forums
"What IS Serendip for?" Does it NEED to be "for" something? Other than evolving/exploring? As a child? an adolescent? an adult? (further evolve home page?) "Barriers to exchange" characterized by one participant as "adolescence". Raises a host of interesting issues. How much of S experience has to do with populations it works with? How much is the diagnosis of adolescence a characteristic of academic populations? of US populations? of world populations? What in addition to the down sides of adolescence are the up sides? |