Why Peer-to-Peer Pedagogies?

On September 10, we're hosting the Peer to Peer Pedagogy (P3) conference.  We won't be able to livestream but, yes, of course, we will tape and make podcasts and roll those out with chats and other interactive means that we are able to afford on a very limited budget.  We'll microblog and live chat that too.   

So the issue is why have such a conference?  I think there is one big reason.   Kids now learn on line and they learn how to learn through self-directed and peer-directed searching, an inductive process of learning.   But the schools they attend, whether K-12 or 12-20, are based on the deductive and reductive logics of industrialization that are based on facts, expertise, hierarchies of knowledge, and one authority delivering the truth.   Learning institutions have just begun to address the ways we can take advantage of new ways of learning---and only begun to address the responsibilities and implications (from copyright and intellectual property to credibility to ethics to authorship and on and on) of remix learning.

So, this is a contribution to new modes of learning that we're all interested in mastering together.   Stay tuned!  We will keep you posted on future postings.