So, I was thinking about this and heard about something called the Product Launch Formula. The basic idea is to talk about the need and solution over time rather than cram it into one sitting. This is the difference between a single five page document and five one page documents shared with you over a week. You have time to think about it and it's repeatedly shown to you in new ways. From there I jumped to the idea of a blogging/online discussion event about open engaging learning and education.
Some of the people I've come in contact with immediately come to mind for this; such as a Brenda Brathwaite (Game Designer and Instructor), Ignatia (Mobile Learning), James Gee (Professor who has written a few books about games and learning), Jim Groom (Edupunk, UMW Blogs and Syndication orriented design), Gardner Campbell (Worked with Jim Groom and I find him interesting to follow) and several more. I have no idea who would have the time and interest to participate, so I'm asking them all..
Hopefully it will start some interesting conversations. With different technologies, design styles and points of view there should be plenty to consider from games to platforms to approaches.
This isn't about starting people on new projects, just quality discussions. There are a lot of ideas floating around the internet, and a few people attached to them. Bring them together and there is a good chance the ideas will be mixed in different and interesting ways. This increases the odds of really creative thinking.
To give an idea of what I mean, let's consider some of my ideas. In the vein of resources I thought that open collaboration with a few ways of varying every bit of explanation would be a good idea. In the vein of practice, I saw video games as interactive problem sets. In the vein of communication I saw syndication and multiple ways of displaying the same content. Each of these things is from a different perspective and valid. This came of thinking about the potential of syndication and talking with Jim Groom, who has more than the normal fascination with it.
There are three TED talks that jump to mind for this; Spaghetti Sauce ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y ), Paradox of Choice ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM ) and School Killing creativity ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY ), in that order. The sauce tells us that we need to test things out, gather practical data and make choices available to the people. The Paradox of Choice says tells us that too many choices is a bad thing on the whole. School Killing Creativity tells us that the current system will not meet the needs of tomorrow. So, what do we do?
I'd say that the answer is pretty simple, iterate. Iterative design is like a wash, rinse repeat cycle for designing anything. Create a prototype, test it, analyze the data and create another version. To experiment we need interested people with ideas to be tested. That's the point of having such a blog event boiled down to it's core, discussing the ideas that can be used in this process. It's even a bit of iteration to me on how we discuss these things.
You might wonder, "What's the point?" Well, experimentation and learning is the point. Even just a summary post with links to other content related to the week's topic would be helpful. Collecting different points of view in perceived time and space increases the likelihood of creative thought. Discussions including those creative thoughts is the goal, but having the resource created would be amazing. Maybe an e-book could be made of a lot of the posts and discussions.
Have fun, spread the word and tell me what you think,
Igen Oukan
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