School of everything....
30/09/08 13:51
The schoolofeverything.com is an award winning idea that could be adapted to the New Zealand context, just as TradeMe adapted the EBay concept. Set up in 2006 by a ‘group of friends’ who wanted to ‘re-invent education’, the web site was launched this month. It’s a social learning network connecting people who can teach with people who want to learn.
Here’s what the founders say:
“Our goal is to do for education what YouTube has done for television, or what eBay did for retail: to open up a huge and fertile space between the professional and the amateur. A space where people teach what they know and learn what they don't.”
When Secondary Futures canvassed New Zealanders, you told us that you wanted the community more involved in the delivery of education; and local businesses, retired lawyers or other experts in the community with skills to share told us they wanted to be more involved. The challenge then was to imagine what mechanisms might act as brokers between those who want to teach and those who want to learn. So when we were writing the community connectedness paper, we all looked up one day with the same idea - what about a web site like TradeMe that acted as a broker? A kind of ‘LearnMe.com’?
Now we see that it can be done. So why not in New Zealand? Contact us if you think this is a good idea.
Here’s what the founders say:
“Our goal is to do for education what YouTube has done for television, or what eBay did for retail: to open up a huge and fertile space between the professional and the amateur. A space where people teach what they know and learn what they don't.”
When Secondary Futures canvassed New Zealanders, you told us that you wanted the community more involved in the delivery of education; and local businesses, retired lawyers or other experts in the community with skills to share told us they wanted to be more involved. The challenge then was to imagine what mechanisms might act as brokers between those who want to teach and those who want to learn. So when we were writing the community connectedness paper, we all looked up one day with the same idea - what about a web site like TradeMe that acted as a broker? A kind of ‘LearnMe.com’?
Now we see that it can be done. So why not in New Zealand? Contact us if you think this is a good idea.
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