Interview with Jim Groom on the structure and direction of his Digital Storytelling course (#ds106). The course is interesting because it was set up as a MOOC, which means wild and distributed, but with popular culture, rather than education, as its central focus. My take on the outcome is that people really like popular culture and want to feel free to deconstruct it, reassemble it, and use it to create new messages (or sometimes just to echo those of the original producers). And I think that the core of the course - which I followed for the duration - stayed true to the core of connectivism, even if Groom was not particularly attempting to adhere to any theory (and nor should he). Groom says, "the challenge is giving up some idea of property and control over the course. Letting others bring their awesome ideas to the table and let them execute them. People are creative and awesome, and if you let them go, they will amaze you. That is what happened in ds106." There are whole schools of thought devoted to the study of educational practice, and yet they never seem to achieve the results we seem to find through the abandonment of educational practice.
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