John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production

This video by John Seely Brown discusses many of the elements at the heart of BCS' Engage program.

John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production

• Have to foster the imagination first
• Create - Reflect - Share
• sharing - create peer based learning
• Studio Learning Environment
• multi age learning community
• best way to learn something is to teach it - Kids teach each other
• critique - Need to be open to criticism (from self, peers, and others)
• work in progress is public
• critiques are public
• Tinkering
• with Information
• with Knowledge
• with concrete things
• networked Tinkering with other people's stuff
• you have to test what you build
• authority comes from testing what you build and whether it works and is as good as it could be
• Allows us to bootstrap our own knowledge
• maybe - kids identities will come from what they have created AND others have built on
• Technology
• enables us to build distributed communities of practice
• allow you to create and to remix