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Power to the People | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing

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- We do the same
  for USV and a couple of weeks ago took a day off to discuss how we think the web itself is
  changing, how the web is changing industries and society, and as a result how
  opportunities for startups are changing. One of the best ways we have found to think about change is to identify
  those principles that appear to drive the change and that themselves can
  provide a bit of a constant. In other
  words to understand what’s changing, you need to understand what is staying the
  same.
- To us, this appears to be one of the great constants of the
  web. It is taking power away from
  existing large institutions and pushing it out to smaller entities and often
  all the way to individuals. In the
  process it is building up new institutions (such as Google), but the net result
  appears to be a distinct shift of “power to the people.” We see this at work in
  many of our existing investments: Etsy’s
  marketplace for handmade goods lets artists connect directly with buyers; Covestor enables investors to share their
  track records and discover each other; Wesabe puts folks in
  control of their finances; Tumblr facilitates sharing oneself; BugLabs lets anyone create a custom network-connected device. In each case, individuals are empowered in ways that simply were not possible prior to the web.
WorldLearningTree.com » Blog Archive » The “Schoogle” Initiative

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- Use the resources and technical competencies of Google to expand from an information provider to an education provider. “Schoogle the world”
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Open English | The Best Way to Learn English Online or Offline

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Intermz.com - know it all.

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What's Next After Web 2.0? Here's What You Told Us... - ReadWriteWeb

One direction is a better education

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- Education is one area ripe for Web innovation. Harley of WorldLearningTree recently submitted his suggestions on how to revolutionalize online education to Google's "Project10ToThe100" contest.
  
  Sandra Foyt is looking for a "better learning/connecting hub". She elaborates: "I want a command center where it's easy to share all kinds of digital media, while being able to chat or microblog. An all in one home base, with Twitter/Flock/Ning/Wiki/Flickr/YouTube elements."
  
  Influential VC Fred Wilson pointed to a post from his venture firm recently, which was on the theme of the Web shifting power to individuals. Fred noted that "we are particularly interested in "disrupting and improving" education and energy markets".
- We think part of the problem (?) Web 2.0 creates is that it generates exponentially growing amounts of information, which becomes harder and harder to efficiently get off the screen and into our brains. Intermz is building an educational platform that will hopefully dramatically improve learning speed, retention, recollection, and understanding, to help handle the rising tide of Web 2.0 output. We hope it becomes an example of where Web 3.0 might go.
Litmos - Web Based Training Platform, Create courses, Track results. Hosted online training system.

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Web pedagogy for educators: 14. Web 2.0 and Future Education

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20 Ideas: Getting students to use their mobile phones as learning tools at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk

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- In this post I looked at ways in which Powerpoint presentations can be saved as a series of images of a size and format suitable for screens of mobile phones or iPods. This is especially useful for revision purposes as teens tend to ‘play’ with their phones when waiting or bored. This gives them something productive to look at!
The Future Of Learning Is Informal And Mobile: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina - Robin Good's Latest News

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- Teemu Arina: Well, it is very hard to define what is informal learning… For some people it is “non formal learning”, which means learning outside school, outside formal structures. For me informal learning is something that is more social, more student-driven and not teacher-driven. Well, it’s life: life is informal learning.
- Say, you can build piazzas like here in Rome, where people can meet and share informal conversations. But you can’t really draw a map or a clear path on how people are going to learn informally. It’s just about building an environment that supports informal interaction.
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- - When you do something you have to stop and reflect, you have to learn something: wikis are about putting those reflections together in the collective action. That’s important for building new knowledge, new ideas and understand what to do next.
  - Teemu Arina: Some years ago, Finland was very strong in the mobile side and people where laughing at the idea of mobile learning. But I think it’s coming. I think it’s integrating with the informal learning space, because being mobile means that the context is around you.
    
    You are not saying things in a classroom out of context, you are not sitting in a formal course within an organization but you are actually there, where you need to be. You need to apply the context to the context itself. I think that’s what mobile learning does: it enables us to utilize the context in a better way.
  - It’s kind of connecting the virtual and the physical spaces, and that’s where I think informal learning is currently failing in the educational technology field: we are not giving enough importance to the meaning of physical spaces and piazzas for meeting. When we see mobile technologies, social technologies and physical spaces intersecting very well, I think that’s when we see what true learning is all about.
  - We are going back to the ancient times of platonic-style conversations, which means having conversations with people who help you come out with ideas by asking the right questions.
    
    That’s what you are doing Robin: you are asking the right questions. When mobile learning and informal learning intersect it’s like typical life and I think it’s the direction we should go to.
    
    The industrial revolution generated the need for structures that were useful: but in the future I think we have gone too far, seeing people – as Max Weber would say – as cogs in machines. People like little cogs trying to get into larger cogs.
  - Teemu Arina: I think there are certain things you need to do. One is to increase serendipity, which is accidental interaction between people, perhaps by creating very effective “third places”. I mean places between the home – which is the first place – and work or school – which are second places. The third place is where you can escape school, the demands of your family and the demands of your manager to share meaningful conversations.
    
    A place which is not connected by technology, in which people meet each other and are able to interact on topics over different fields. If you invest in such environments where you can have such conversations with your employees, that’s when you start to come up with ideas from different mindsets than your own.
    
    It’s very easy to have a tunnel-shaped vision of thinking when you are looking for rational argumentations inside your organization. You have to look for new environments existing outside your organization and let people go there and share different conversations.
  - Fundamentally, it’s about emphasizing the connection more than the content that goes through the connection. George Siemens would say it’s the pipe that is more important than the content within the pipe.
  - The role of teacher is to show different points of view of the same thing that is important to understand.
    
    You don’t look at the sky from the same point of view all the times in order to understand what’s going on with the planet. The teacher shows different angles to these interconnected constructs around us.
  - Managers manage things; leaders lead people. You don’t lead people by saying what to do and what things to look at.
    
    You actually light the fire inside them to go towards a direction that is collectively useful. This is what the role of teachers should be in the future: they should be leaders, rather than managers. They should help people come up with ideas rather than being the source of ideas.
  - I think it’s like the global warming: we see the problem (e.g. we see the problem of learning and teaching) but sort of, you know, you wake up in the morning and there is no problem with it – not yet – so you don’t do anything about it. One day you wake up and it’s a disaster.
    
    Maybe we should be more proactive than reactive about learning and knowledge.
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Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education (Techlearning blog)

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- Digest This Thought: The Answer to Information Overload Is to Produce More Information.
iKnow Is A Social Learning Platform That Can Really Make You Smarter. Opens API.

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