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Remix of knowledge acquisition and practice are elements of Learning 2.0
- 05-27-2011
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By Charles Taylor Kerchner/Thoughts on Public Education
The words “remix” and “mashup” entered the vocabulary as descriptors of life in the digital age. They are also key to what I am calling Learning 2.0, the next full-scale version of public education. At the simplest level, these new terms are represented by three teenagers using Apple Garage Band to combine bits and pieces of music into their own composition. At a more complex level, the process of remix changes the nature of authorship, as it did for a recent book on digital learning in which the authors of the draft posted their text for comment and addition. Hundreds of people responded, and the book draft is still undergoing revision even after its publication by a university press. Remix and mashup are linguistic markers for a growing practice of peer-produced learning, one that extends the instinct for tinkering and play into an approach to learning and scholarship. As pedagogy, these new words signal moving away from consumption to participation and from concentrating our attention on teaching to concentrating on learning. (more...)
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