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When asked what they value most about the Edgeware experience, Edgies consistently say, “talking and learning with like-minded people.” It’s about the right people (positive, motivated, open) exchanging ideas (conversation, mutuality, reciprocity, collectivity). Peer learning. Collaborative working.
“For the really difficult questions, conversation with respected peers is the only path to learning… as we move more rapidly towards a bright green future, we are going to find ourselves more and more in terra incognita, doing things and creating things and combining things that have never before been done, created or combined. In order to do this well, we have to help each other by sharing what we’ve learned.” Alex Steffen at worldchanging.com
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by Floris Koot on February 24, 2009 at 9:18 pm
It seems so logical and it’s weird that most educational institutes don’t listen to the message: when people share their thinking and start learning together, that’s when the most progress is made. Edgeware is about entrepreneurship, so the ‘Edgies’ clearly benefit from inspiring each other and learning to think for themselves and by cocreating the best possible environement for their progress.
Makes you wonder what need universities see in big lecturerooms with lots of students takeing notes from one authority? Perhaps not teaching people to think, but rather teaching people to follow orders in big organisations. Here we have another root of the Global Crisis.
The incapability of many to cocreate, feel responsible and evaluate their own roles and actions in their lives and organisations. Edgeware may have a bigger message to education than it thought.