Howard Reheingold focused his discussion on communication, media, and collective action. He discussed how communication has developed form verbal to written communication and in the most recent years, media. He focused on groups like Google, Amazon, and EBay to show that media is learning that to grow, there needs to be a collective action between the provider and those provided for. By providing and interacting with the global environment, there is growth internally; “Certain charity is in their best interest…”
I do believe that humans have a basic instinct to “interact and work as a group”. I do believe, however, that the instinct changes over time with experience. The instinct, based on trait, and then meshed with experience is the primary determiner of how much a person enjoys and seeks out collaboration. I agree with a basic instinct because if you watch a group of young children in a room, they will almost always gravitate toward other children. Developmentally, collaboration takes a few years, but the need to be near and work beside someone is there from the beginning. Children will often offer help and work together to come to a solution.
The use of social networking provided through technology will be a strong way to facilitate collaboration among student not only in their schools, but globally. Using graphic software and other programs to design will allow young minds to form new ideas and approaches. Today’s generation is growing up with social networking and though maybe socially awkward, are able to communicate through technology. When people talk about preparing students for jobs that are not even thought of yet; I can see global networking on collaborative projects falling into that category.
Howard Rheingold: Way-New Collaboration [Motion picture]. (2008). United States: TED Ideas Worth Spreading. Retrieved July 2, 2009, from http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/
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I thoroughly enjoy having your perspective in our group. Looking at what Koh wrote, and recognizing her very sound logic, I wonder when/how that “instinct” changes. Now, without turning this into a conversation on childhood development, could that point of transformation be an area of focus for encouraging and supporting those collaborative instincts?
Everywhere else I have written about the influence perspective plays on this question of instinct. In each case, it was from the perspective of an adult making that choice. I am thoroughly intrigued by how children would make it.
Brad,
I do believe that encouraging and supporting collaborative instincts during childhood would be key to sustainment. I believe that the social network of technology and mobile devices has started to do this for us, but we have a few years time when children don’t “read” or “write”. I think that teachers should start leading by example! I used to have other teachers come into my room and buddy share my writing to show children how to collaborate and learn from each other while teaching social etiquette in critiquing. Young children are highly influenced by what they see around them and they are watching even when we are not expecting them to be. What an opportunity…
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