Greene Street Friends School and Frankford Friends School Inservice Presentation
Here is a link to the presentation http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=df4ffv6d_78h63xtns4
Web 2.0 & Quakerism
New Technologies
- Early on - Always/Never
- Further along - Pick/Choose
Wikinomics
- Don Tapscott (Growing Up Digital)
- Big Idea: Collaboration Web 2.0 Technologies -> more engaging, harness knowledge, build community
- ex. 43things.com
Characteristics of Web 2.0
- Being Open
- Candor, Transparency, Access
- ex. Progressive Insurance
- express "true value" of your institution instead of just your "front"
- puts you under the microscope
- builds higher trust in your communications
- leads to loyalty
- Peering
- historically high level of info/comm access
- command & control hierarchy -> leveled peer arrangement
- give access to tinker with your work to improve it
- motivation = altruism, recognition, remuneration
- ex. Wikipedia
- "Leverages self organization, a style of management that works more efficiently that hierarchtical management for certain tasks"
- Sharing
- protect your intellectual property -> retain ownership but share your IP
- facilitate collaboration
- speeds breakthroughs
- ex. Human Genome Project
- Acting Globally
- geographic boundaries falling
- involve people without regard for location
- "The world is teeming with possibilities for education, work, and entrepreneurship."
- ex. takingITglobal
Summary
- Web 1.0 = presenting information/one way
- Web 2.0 = participation architecture
- openness, peering, sharing, acting globally
- higher involvement
- expected by NetGen (1977-1996) and beyond
- chance to build community and get wisdom from a wider group
- blog.penncharter.com projects
how “doing Quakerism” can be like “doing technology”
Doing Technology
Very experimental, requires
us to adapt tools made for other purposes to our educational ends, very
leveling (equalizing) especially with web 2.0
Doing Quakerism
Quakers experiment. Quaker practices are leveling by design. Quakers take wordly things and adapt them to their purpose.
1. Experimenting
- Foundation
of the religion. No Childhood baptism into the faith. Called
anabaptists by critics for this reason. Experiment with your approach
to spirituality through real-life experiences. Depending on the
results, decide if Quakerism is for you then ask to join a meeting. - 1682 William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a "Holy Experiment" based on Quaker principles. Basis for US constitution.
- Not all experiments work out as well as Penn's Pennsylvania. The original
eastern state penitentiary Quaker design for Alleviating the Miseries
of Public Prisons ended up adding misery. Charles Dickens said it was
"cruel and wrong…." Based on the results of that experiment, the
original plan was disbanded. - George Fox often quoted as saying "this I know experimentally" when talking about his spiritual conclusions.
- Quakers Experiment.
2. Leveling
- Value for the individual from the start of Quakerism
- Example: Had no paid ministers so all could and would have to participate in the group's ministry.
- Felt all could have a connection to God
- belief that it was more involving and authentic experience
- Example: Was a group where women participated equally
- Example: no hat tipping
- Quaker practices are leveling by design.
3. Adapting
- History of taking modern advances and using them to support Quaker testimonies
- Has its root in the expression from the Biblical passage in John 17. "In but not of the world"
- Example
of using worldly tools in their own way : industry - Cadbury
chocolates. Family was told paying high wages and providing for their
employees needs would never work. did it their way and succedded - Example: QuakerQuaker.org web 2.0. spiritual blogging amid lesser civil discourse
- Quakers takes wordly things and adapt them to their purpose
The Changing Nature of Communication
presentation + discussion/resource sharing led by Tom Rickards - Religion Department Chair William Penn Charter School