Next Steps
From Oneville Wiki
The Last Layer: Facilitating Public Knowledge on Education Innovation
What forms of information-sharing would help the public see existing education innovation, and catalyze more of it? Policy efforts alone cannot “fix” education from above; nor does knowledge on “what works” automatically get shared across localities. Instead, educators, mentors, families, and students themselves need direct access to the best knowledge available about improving and increasing learning opportunities for young people. So what forms of information-sharing would make this possible?
OneVille has been an attempt to create communication infrastructure within a district and schools, but the same infrastructure can support information-sharing nationally and beyond. Indeed, the ultimate scalable intervention in education may be organized local inquiry into ways of improving local education. And the most potent accountability model may be knowledgeable local stakeholders pressing each other toward doing “what works.”
= Our PI is moving to CREATE at UCSD and will be exploring regional and city-wide information-sharing, as well as exploring efforts there to improve individual-level, school-level, and district-level communication infrastructure a la OneVille. Goals:
1. Create direct usable access to knowledge about improving and increasing learning opportunities for young people. (Twitter? Video documentation? Wikis?)
2. Continue to improve the local communication infrastructure of public education. Create and test tools for supporting the people who share children, to communicate re. improving young people's lives.
(How would such information best be organized, to avoid the information overload of the internet? We had an idea called an
Interaction Map
Create:
Graphic diagram with hyperlinks that will organize usable knowledge about exciting ways to improve education:
Parent – Child Caregiver – Child Neighbor – Child Mentor - Child Child – Child Youth - Youth Teacher – Child Administrator – Child Social worker - Child Parent –Teacher Parent – Administrator Community organizer - Legislator
Other information-sharing efforts: Code for America: could a 311 line and citywide "dashboard" be used in education, to show quant data and, to support youth and adults to use cellphone and internet technology to make qualitative suggestions to improve schools?