I’ve been a fan of Clay Shirky’s writing for a few years now, and Will Richardson has conducted this great interview (crikey, back in August, now) with Shirky teasing out the implications for education from his latest book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations.
Shirky summarises his thesis as ‘group action just got easier’. He discusses the way that new technologies are shifting learning further towards collaboration and self-organisation, with a subsequent impact on the role of the teacher and the nature and shape of schools.
