World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others, written by Will Richardson, is an article about the cooperation between individuals, and groups of individuals sharing the wealth of information via digital technology. What he calls, "The Collaboration Age" is about forming networks and sharing information. Students, and teachers alike, are challenged by the fact that our current school curriculum is being rendered outdated by technology and the collaboration age.
Students are working in networks, forming their own curriculum, which is in turn reread, reapplied and remixed. The video Everything is a Remix points out how the government and corporations don't accept this due to copyright restrictions but the memes of social evolution are going to evolve whether they like it or not. These memes that students acquire through blogs, Skype, and wikis that are transformed and combined to create new ideas are not copies from any individual's property, so the capitalists are just going to have to sit back and watch while the digital age of collaboration evolves. Social evolution has proved that the system of copyrights and patents has failed in regards to the common good of people and the current networking of ideas in this age of cooperation will evolve with or without their authorization.
Now, educators must develop a new way to educate which includes the collaboration of information and model this to our students in order for them to gain the correct virtual information to copy, transform and create new ideas to solve the current problems in today's physical world.
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