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Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution: Digital Citizenship & Civic Engagement in a Post-Digital AgePeter Bryant @peterbryantHEHead of Learning Technology and InnovationLondon School of Economics and Political Science, UK
THECHALLENGE
Modern pedagogy/
civic engagement
is often…
SEQUENTIALSCAFFOLDED
ALIGNEDSTRUCTUREDSTRATIFIED
LEARNING
EXPERIENCING
LIVING
ACQUIRING
CONNECTING
RARELY ARE
LEARNING
SHARINGCONNECTING
CHANGING
What if
InformalCommunity led
Non-linearDemocratic
Problem solvingCollaborative
ChaoticAspirational
EmancipatoryOpen
engagementcould be…
ALLAT AMASSIVESCALE
USING
SOCIAL MEDIA
WHY
LEARNING
MASSIVE
CITIZENSHIP
Combination of learning approachesIntegrating participatory practicesEngaged individuals and groupsNo readings, no course, No lecturer, no teacher, maybe a guruNo sequence, enter at any timeLearning was an expectationLearning through practice, debate and citizenship
What we built
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leolondon/451273331
Where we finished
over 1500 users;over 725 idea submissions;over 125000 idea views;over 10000 comments;over 25000 votes cast;an 8500 word constitution;from more than 1m words written.Over 75% learnt something and 88&% were influenced by the communityParticipation went up across the project not DOWN https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/1470015134
RE-DEFINING MASSIVE
IMPACTRIPPLEPOWER OF ANALYSISEXPERIENCE
https://www.flickr.com/photos/balleyne/2668834386
RE-DEFINING OPEN
OPEN ACCESSOPEN PARTICIPATIONOPEN ACADEMYOPEN ENGAGEMENT
What happens when you empower a community to learn and engage in social change?Does this build an informed digital citizenry?Can this be more than civic engagement? Problem solving, capacity development or change?
And that’s what is next…