Learning is Change

Host a Learning Open House

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I’m not sure where this idea came from, but I wanted to get it out before I moved on to the next thing:

Wat if we encouraged everyone we knew to host “Learning Open Houses”, in which they would demonstrate exactly what they were learning and how they were learning it? What if we let others talk about their own learning as a way of letting others into their world? What if we hosted events online where we just sat and listened to one another show off their learning artifacts?

What if we asked one another every day, “What are you learning right now, and would you show it to me?”

I want that. I want to see the environments that others are creating around themselves that best spur their learning. I want to see students hold Learning Open Houses and I want to see employees do the same. I want to see demonstrated learning all over the place, and not just in short tweets or in random serendipity. I want to see extended conversations, where I get a formal invitation to come and look at someone else’s learning.

I want Learning Open Houses to be like art exibits, but where you get to touch and manipulate the art.

I want Learning Open Houses to be like Back to School Nights, but where everyone is showing off their “school of one”.

This idea is hitting me over the head again and again the more that I think about it.

What would you do in a Learning Open House? How would you plan it? Where would you host it? Who would you invite to show your learning to?

Gamestorming: A set of protocols for innovation

Before this morning, I really didn’t know anything about gamestorming. In a nutshell, it is all about having a set of protocols for innovation. While I’m not entirely sure that they will be applicable to those of us working primarily online, I do think that they may help us to introduce some more innovative methods for the organizations we work with and there is sure to be ways to apply these methods more widely.

Many of these protocols are not copyrighted, and so we would be able to use them off the shelf as we start to build out what insight curation looks like within a team. Anyway, I thought I would share a couple of things on the topic:

 

There are also a couple of iPhone apps that will allow you to have the protocols at your fingertips. Just search for gamestorming in the app store (they cost).