On Sunday we set down with Lucia, George, Muhammad, Ricardo and yours truly for a lovely picnic at the park. After the necessary drinks and snacks, we started a brainstorm to see how we can together shape the future of learning. How could it look and what is its relation to what we are doing in cc:Lab?
To answer that question, we started out wondering what it exactly is we’re doing now and from there went along to imagine a bright future. Our journey lead across motivations for learners and teachers (that largely overlap), the crowd-sourced nature of a workshop, ingredients to make a bigger plan reality (and whether this should include monetary exchange), many related initiatives and eventually even a new name!
To summarise:
- We are a community
- We facilitate Learning & Teaching practical topics that fit a 2 hour workshop
- We are nomadic, crowd-based & decentralised
- The community is inclusive, friendly & safe
- We need a website as platform for communication, planning & establishing trust
- Money seems useful, but how?
- The name ‘Picnic' is an easy, cool, great sounding everyday word that conveys collaboration, fun, activity, initiative and togetherness.
For a full report on the brainstorm (including pictures!), see here.
This is only the beginning of an idea that a continuation of what we’ve been doing in cc:Lab can become something bigger. Over the next few weeks there will be more collaboration to see what we can build!