What seems under-emphasized in this curriculum for me is a focus on the personal and social practices, and best practices. More than a new literacy, cooperation and collective action is a performing art. What is it about the now emerging techno-socio-economic collaborative environment that is such a game changer? What are the ways for us to play? What are the options, the strategies? What values should shape our decisions? And, why those values?
Cooperation is not exactly a new topic for humanity. It has a history and pre-history. Individually, we've all been dealing with cooperation, collective action, and governance ever since we were children. Further, we humans are creatures of tensions. We deal with cooperation in a context of evolving interests, competition, harmony and conflict, development through crises, birth and death, and so on. Developmental studies suggest that individually and socially our capabilities evolve, that we all start at square one, that growth passes through distinguishable stages, that developmental dysfunctions may also occur at any stage, that civilizations have centers of gravity with respect stage of development, but have statistically significant portions of their populations at various stages, and that capabilities do co-evolve. In practice, then, there are many, many different ways these themes can and do play out in our daily lives. On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > looks good to go from my perspective! > Mark > > On 8/29/08, Andrea Saveri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for putting it up Robert. I'll comb through my files and see >> if there is anything else that might be relevant. >> best >> andrea >> >> On Aug 27, 6:38 pm, Howard Rheingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> THank you, Andrea and Robert! >>> >>> Howard Rheingold >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]://twitter.com/hrheingoldhttp://www.rheingold.com >>> http://www.smartmobs.comhttp://vlog.rheingold.com >>> what it is ---> is --->up to us >>> >>> On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Robert Link wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> CoCos, >>> >>>> Andrea was kind enough to send me the syllabus for the Stanford >>>> lecture >>>> series from which CoCo spawned and I have taken a couple minutes to >>>> mark >>>> it up for the wiki. Please take a look and if you find anything >>>> that >>>> needs correcting, embrace the wiki way and correct it. ;) >>> >>>> http://wiki.cooperationcommons.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Rooms.SHLLectures >>> >>>> With this in place I'd say we're effectively good-to-go on inviting >>>> others to use this as a spring board and see what can be developed. >>>> That is, I think with this in place we're ready to invite >>>> researchers >>>> and other folks to drop by, take a look, make suggestions. >>> >>>> Any opposition? >>> >>>> rl >>> >> > > > -- > ----- > Mark Elliott, PhD > Director, CollabForge pty ltd > collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software > http://collabforge.com ~ http://mark-elliott.net/ ~ http://metacollab.net/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
