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Stephen Downes

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When I first read this I thought "Google invents connectivism." Now it's not that at all, but the idea of "math as a platform" is pretty close. And this document is required reading. And really, it makes a lot of sense to think of a subject as a platform rather than content. Like Natural Math, for example (no awards for design, but then there's the concept). Or, I mean, for example:
  • Materials are extensible, so users – students, study groups, developers – change them continuously
  • User groups are peer-to-peer partnerships or co-ops, helping everybody to contribute
  • Contributions are transparent, acknowledged, honored and commented upon
  • Groups have tools for sustaining the flow by tracking individual tasks, time, and progress, possibly in playful ways
  • Tracking tools help creative, social and monetary economies of the system to stay sustainable
  • The platform has starter high-quality content: “killer apps” created on the platform
  • Ways to contribute are simple, open and creative: neither rocket science, nor worksheets
  • With special tools, users curate the content based on shared values within user groups

Update, from Google+: "That's exactly what +Ann Martin and I have been trying to do with the Tres Columnae Project -- to build a platform on which our learners construct their own understandings of Latin." Also see George Siemens on platforming education.

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