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Bee sent me the link to this post by Jeff Jarvis, who writes about the value of content these days:

But in this new age, you don’t want to own the content or the pipe that delivers it. You want to participate in what people want to do on their own. You don’t want to extract value. You want to add value. You don’t want to build walls or fences or gardens to keep people from doing what they want to do without you. You want to enable them to do it. You want to join in.

Now that content is no longer a scarcity, schools don’t have a corner on the knowledge market anymore. The ability to access content ends up being more useful than what you can store in your brain. Value, then, lies in the relationships you build through conversation taking place around the content, giving it a pulse of its own. We co-create the world this way. Schools should now be focused on training students to participate meaningfully in this process instead of meeting predetermined goals the system has set for them. Like Will says:

We need to create our own texts, because we can. Our students need to help us, because they can. We need to ask relevant, diverse, living sources to participate, because they can. This is a totally changed world we’re entering, and we need to begin serious conversations at our schools as to what those changes mean and what strategies we can use to take advantage of them.