I have been making educational content for over forty years and I like to think I’m pretty good at it. I have even created a web site with over 3,000 online learning activities. So I was somewhat surprised when Barker Davis of AWE burst my bubble so easily. “You know,” Barker said to me, “everyone thinks they can create ALL their own content, and no one can do that.” Here I was with thousands of online learning activities, more than just about anyone else, and that got me thinking…mostly because he was clearly right.
Of course, I think he was right because I already have created the web site so that parents and teachers can create and share their own online learning activities. I realize that no matter how many online learning activities I have created (whether its 3,000 or even 30,000), over time that number will be dwarfed by what others can create and contribute to our sharing community. If only 1,000 parents and teachers create only one activity per week, that’s 50,000 online learning activities in just one year! And if you give people simple authoring tools, anyone can create online learning activities. If you enable them to create and join their own sharing communities, anyone can share. It’s really staggering to think of what the collective efforts of people can do. Thank you Barker for reminding me.
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