Monday, February 22, 2010

Collaborative is the path to the brighter future

Last weekend I visit, respectively, I participate on my first bar-camp. The educamp, in Hamburg. it
was very exited and mind opening. At first the issue "Education and web 2.0" and second the frame
of this congress, the bar-camp. But because I am a beginner in both fields, the issue of this message
is the following:
Education is not my core issue and I only participate because I accompanied a good friend, who is
active in this community. But in an short research after the event, about this "education community"
I discovered some patterns which evolve also in the
"global guerilla", "resilient communities" community. (This is the community, which is in the realm
of my interests)
But what kind of patterns did I discover in this very diverse communities?
The both try to find a path to "heal the world and make it an better place".
And this path seems to be an collaborative one.
Examples.

John Robb, ideas about an "gifting economie" that could be realized throught MMO gaming (Massively Multiplayer online) as an tool. 


Jean-Pol Martin writes "the 9 rule of the neuron" , an first
draft for an manual of behavior for an human being that collaborates in an big community. Here is the goal to create a big probleme solving capacity. .

Life long learning - MIT for free

The famous MIT
University
offers a bunch of interesting open courses. Video lecture, presentation pdf, Lectures
Notes, Readings, Assignments...
I not yet figure out how it is with an "learning and support community" for feedback and
discussions?
But this is an exellent source to generate knowledge.
At first I'm chose this one "Reflective Practice: An Approach for
Expanding Your Learning Frontiers"

I'm curios what kind of experience I'm gone make with self-learning. But perhaps I could convince
one or two friends to join the journey.

Hero of the week

The newest interview of Edward Luttwak on "Conversation with History" ( I love Harry Kreisler) reminds me
one more time of the extraordinary knowledge skills of this men. Luttwak took very abstract terms
and definition like "strategy" or "diplomacy" and put them, after you read it, obvious relation, fill
them with flesh aka examples and give you a deeper understanding of them.
Albeit you can not go with his concepts and argumentation his starting point give you the direction
of new thoughts.
For example, in my opinion he doesn't distinct very clearly between the "tactical level of strategy"
and "the operational level of strategy" and the "theatre level of strategy"...is it time, space, amount
of people and material or the amount and variety of instruments, like different arms branches? But
more on this later...