Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
If there's a lesson, it's this: "Either we do this ourselves, or it will not happen." This is Marc Pesce: "We have to look to ourselves, build the networks between ourselves, reach out and connect from ourselves, if we expect to be able to resist a culture which wants to turn the entire human world into candy.... In that sense, this connected educational field mirrors and is a reflection of our human social networks, the ones we form from our first moments of awareness. But unlike that more ad-hoc network, this one has a specific intent: to bring the child into knowledge." Speaking of the world as candy: Disney sponsors a learning challenge.

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