[esocialaction] FW: Collective social learning - a theoretical foundation for Web 2

[Dearden, Andrew M]

Those of you based in and around London may want to go to this.

Val is an all round good egg and has years of experience.


Andy


Reader in e-SocialAction
Communication & Computing Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University
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Sheffield
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From: Yishay Mor [yishaym at gmail.com]
Sent: 16 June 2009 11:37
To: Dearden, Andrew M
Subject: Fwd: Collective social learning - a theoretical foundation for Web 2

Andy, do you want to promote this in your circles?

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From: Andrew Copeland <A.Copeland at ioe.ac.uk<mailto:A.Copeland at ioe.ac.uk>>
Date: 2009/6/16
Subject: Collective social learning - a theoretical foundation for Web 2
To: LKLB <LKLB at ioe.ac.uk<mailto:LKLB at ioe.ac.uk>>



Dear All,



You are cordially invited to the following lunch time seminar at the London Knowledge Lab this Friday 19 June:





Collective social learning - a theoretical foundation for Web 2

Emeritus Professor Valerie A. Brown AO, BSc MEd PhD*



Synopsis:
Whether we are now at Web 2, Web 3 or Web 8, we can agree that after Web 1 came a surge of interoperability<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/Interoperability>, user-centered design<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/User-centered_design> and mass collaboration<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/Collaboration>. Web-based communities, social-networking<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/Social_network_service> sites, video-sharing<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/Video_sharing> sites, and blogs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/Blog>, add up to a new cultural force. There has been little consideration of the changes this integrative cultural force brings to the ruling fragmentation of knowledge.  This seminar will identify the hierarchy of knowledge structures in the construction of Western knowledge and suggest collective social learning as a synthesising framework consistent with the needs of Web 2 and above.

* Director, Local Sustainability Project, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University.  Valerie works collaboratively with communities in Australia, Asia, Canada and Europe on whole-of-community change. Her latest books include “Social learning and environmental management: towards a sustainable future” 2005; “Leonardo’s vision: a guide to collective learning and action” 2008 and “Tackling wicked problems: using the transdisciplinary imagination” In press, 2009.