dream&hustle | What is being described as MOOC
and MOOLOs is how the hacker/technology community been working together
since some were phreaking dial tones to get free long distant calls
(l0pht crew back at MIT early 1990s). The goal was not a master teacher a
subservient student but providing information that can be tested,
validated and distributed by those that receive the information and
spread the knowledge throughout the network.
This is why I predicted that as much as people want to crack jokes
about University of Phoenix, that institution may be the most disruptive
force to the American education system as the "alumni" are learning to
start talking to each other about knowledge and doing research and share
that information with each other. They are also capable of distributing
information as this was their discipline to learn. What traditional
school in America has that kind of capability?!
Look at Africa and how their GDP is growing rapidly, especially in
the technology sector - technologists including me and my people are
training and sharing information with entrepreneurs in Africa who want
to learn, who ask questions and we show them how to do it. Not only the
people in Africa do it, they show each other and all of the top minds I
know in the world is in Africa spreading education in the similar
fashion and we are watching that information manifest itself throughout
Africa. China is the same way with their investment - showing Africans
how to run manufacturing instead of just "working them" like the Western
countries would do. That instructional information is being spread
rapidly through east, west, south and parts of central Africa.
Among my crew, I stated before on my blog - we all have an innovation center in our abode and we can collaboratively share information,
validation information and package and disseminate information
worldwide. As we share information, we identify who take the information
and run with it and like Professor Xavier, we hunt them down as we
found out who are the real change agents doing something that we can
target with more information and instruction to teach others.
So yes, we are here in America forcing kids to be "superman" and know
everything and have to take a test on that knowledge. How are our kids
going to compete with "my kids" who we are providing instructions on how
to create and operate a natural fruit stand in Nicaragua to running a
"Sears" showroom/mail order catalog store in the Philippines? Our kids
are sharing that information and that is the disruptive force that will
manifest itself when American kids start turning 14 and realize the rest
of the world is collaborative while the American kids have to still
prepare for standardized testing.
