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A new education platform would see mobile peripatetic scholars developing networks via a Twitter-like social media site but for education, blogging via an integrated Substack-style CMS, and teaching unrestricted by attachment to space: travel to meet students, or use Zoom. https://twitter.com/3bodycapital/status/1292116692370366464
'The Humanities are Dead, Long Live the Humanities!' - Why the collapse of the humanities in universities can be a positive development https://postapathy.substack.com/p/the-humanities-are-dead-long-live
Of course, this applies to well beyond the humanities.
The point is that, for all the attacks on the gig economy, it's opening up the possibility of genuinely-mobile and independent scholars. All we have to do is start piecing the software together.
The point is that, for all the attacks on the gig economy, it's opening up the possibility of genuinely-mobile and independent scholars. All we have to do is start piecing the software together.
As opposed to carrying the generic names of universities on your CV signifying "proximity" to scholarly communities of knowledge, we can create a Great Return of the scholar-apprentice system - your new ticket in life is who you directly learned from. Isnad-ification.
Isnad is a rigorous form of establishing chains of narration - i.e. the passing down of knowledge - in Islam - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/isnad
The rise of mass education led to the need for mass university courses. This is an anomaly. Our return will be to personalised education based not really on institutions and certificates, but on ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE transmitted from great scholar to apprentice/student.
An age-old form of the transmission of knowledge, once thought "obsolete" (at least for mass consumption) can be brought back into the 21st century with the aid of technology, to deliver it to as many people as possible.
The most successful tech companies aren't imagining anything new - they're taking LINDY-proven models and upgrading them with technology. The education revolution of the 21st century will follow this pattern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
One of the shocking things to me is that there is no concentrated effort on combing through historical models of social, economic and political organisation and refitting the best ones for 21st century implementation.
Education is one-such field that would see huge value created with this; what other forms are we missing?
The NEW FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE lie in COMBING THE PAST.
The NEW FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE lie in COMBING THE PAST.
I've been thinking long and hard about Samo Burja's article on "finding the frontier of knowledge". I think it's just hit me that it isn't really about finding new ideas - the absolute majority don't - but repurposing ancient ones with novel implementation.
