Why did people drop out of school, asks Kio Stark? "The problem is, we've made school the primary infrastructure for learning." Learning wasn't autonomous, learning wasn't active, and there was no room to fail. So she wants to be in favour of indepoendent learning. People tend to leap to the conclusion that this means learning by oneself as an autodidact. But this is a myth - learning is really social, something we do with each other. Hackerspace, Genspace, Stack Overload and LessWrong are all examples of community learning spaces outside schools. Memrise, NoteEd, TeamRise, Einstein, Mendelay - these are examples of spaces where learning communities can form. But what we see today "is a pale imitation of real openness." Classic TED-style presentation (which "here's the thing" repeated four times). There are more videos on this site containing videos from Skillshare's Penny Conference
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