My presentation at the #restartedu Imaginarium organised by @crosro & @techsoupro in Bucharest Romania 25/26 February 2012 This Is My Brain on Co-creating Open Metaphors

1. Everything is a Metaphor @fredgarnett

2. #restartedu What is this?

3. A Roman Road? Of course!

4. But first it was a Greek Canal

5. And next a Persian Postal Service

6. Only then a way of conquering Europe

7. Your metaphors change how you see
Affected by;
•Cultural Context
•Values
•Meaning
•Purpose
What Metaphors are you designing for?

8. Active & Knowledgeable
New Metaphors
Three Current Projects
• WikiQuals; Participative Education for
Participative Democracy (myBias)
• Ambient Learning City; Creating extra-
institutional contexts for learning
• Emergent Learning Model; Using EU Policy to
redesign the Future of Learning

9. Old but from the future
Three Old Projects with new metaphors
Three Old Projects with new metaphors
Creekside Education Trust; an NGO promoting
Trust
environmentalEducation Trust; urban ecology
• Creekside education thru an NGO
promoting environmental education thru
urban ecology
TaLENT; A A Community Grid for Learning
• TaLENT; Community Grid for Learning
teaching teachers how toto usethe Internet
teaching teachers how use Internet
• Citizen Connects; A local government
Citizen Connects; A digitalgovernment
initiative to promote local citizenship
initiative to promote digital citizenship

10. Change; the Rule of Threes
• Do it as you are told (DO)
• Modify what you did last time (REFLECT)
• Change what you did completely (CHANGE)
OR
Fail fast & Fail often
&
Learn from your experience

11. Brief from Vlad on New Projects
• Don’t Invent a new Facebook
• We did in 2001 Cybrarian working prototype
• UK Govt – DfES REJECTED IT! Why?
• The New Metaphor didn’t exist; The term
social network did not exist then
• lastfridaymob; What is “Public Technology”
Creative/Interactive/Participative

12. Learner-Generated Contexts
• But Public Technology group did not work
• “Let’s reconfigure as a Research Group”
• Don’t reinvent Facebook!
• OK! So what’s next? From Access to Content
to Context;
• So design for the social context you want
“a coincidence of motivations leading
to agile configurations”

13. The Open Context Model of Learning
Pedagogy; subjects, facts,
teaching, cognition
Andragogy; collaboration,
negotiation, meta-cognition
Heutagogy; research, creativity,
epistemic cognition

14. P A H
Teacher Teacher/ Learner
Learner
School Adult Research
Cognition Meta- Epistemic
Cognition Cognition

15. Heutagogy & Innovation
Heutagogy creates new metaphors;
• moving criteria across contexts
• Interdisciplinary; learning from &
working with other disciplines
• creating the (participatory) future

16. Collaboration not Leadership
Group Genius how creative teams work;
1) Innovation Emerges Over Time;
2) Successful Collaborative Teams Practice Deep
Listening;
3) Team members build on their collaborators’ ideas;
4) Only afterwards does the meaning of each idea
become clear;
5) Surprising Questions Emerge
6) Innovation is Inefficient;
7) Innovation Emerges From The Bottom Up;
New Metaphors need new collaborations

17. Transformative Creativity
“Transformative creativity results when a
group thinks of a new way to frame a
problem” Keith Sawyer in Group Genius
Bottom Up?; use participatory design
principles or participative curation
Design for appropriation, design for the
network, design for new use states
“Solve the problem that *annoys* you
most” Philippa Young

18. Some thoughts on Collaboration
I believe in collaborations because I have
been involved in many
Keep the organising group small (<12)
Keep the delivery group small (<150)
Design for “organised complexity”
Allow for emergence (non-linear dynamic
systems)
Develop new metaphors / new
collaborations / new partnerships

19. How to be Successful
DO Stuff
Discuss
Reflect
CHANGE Together

20. A Way of Conquering Europe?

21. Is your metaphor;
• A Connection
•A System
•A Way forward
• Ambitious
Who are your Metaphors for?

22. My ideas / Your ideas
@fredgarnett
Comments, text & links;
http://crosquals.wordpress.com
Ideas; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/
Blog;
http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/
Future Ideas; NeXT-2021
Email; fred.garnett@gmail.com

23. Everything is a Metaphor
A talk by @fredgarnett
For @crosro
The #restartedu Imaginarium
Bucharest, Romania, February 2012
“Hello Budapest”  <might be a joke…