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I think the school's existing model is a brilliant one for digital education.  Big noisy energetic communal spaces.  Collaborative, cross-fertilising, exploratory, [[bottom-up]] learning like [[PBL]] etc.  [[Monitoring the school's progress|People moving at different paces]].  This is exactly what digitial is good at.

For many kids, it's already a big part of how they do things.  It's a big part of a lot of peoples' work too, destined to become more so.  Sometimes referred to as [[Knowledge Management]], the goal is ''communities which learn and respond together because they can develop, share and reflect on their explicit and [[Tacit Knowledge|tacit knowledge]] more efficiently''.  To me that seems like a natural focus for digital education at the school.  

Take this wiki for example.  It's a series of shared, linked, simple webpages that can contain text, internal and external links, images, videos, comments, even chat.  The '''content is user-generated and linked by users''', it's editable, catagorisable (is that a word?), "published" bottom-up by its users and builds into a big searchable shared digital mindmap.  I think that goes to the heart of the KM/PSCA model.  It's device-independent, free, secure, easy to use and to customise or extend.  All you need is a server.

Along with your existing and future digital facilities, you could also have things like 
* a Q&A site like [https://www.question2answer.org/ this].  I sometimes write things on something called Quora (e.g. [https://www.quora.com/What-incidents-of-racism-or-xenophobia-in-the-UK-have-you-experienced-since-the-Brexit-vote-the-more-personal-the-answer-the-better/answer/Gavin-Ruddy this])
* personal blog spaces
* shared spaces out on things like Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube
* an online student newspaper (i.e. shared blog)
* real ebook publishing, e.g. on Amazon
* web hosting and assistance for student projects
* basically '''a lot of make, discover, perform type experiments'''
This way, you could soon have a useful, decentralised, diverse virtual space up and running in parallel to your real one.

I think the [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%7Bctf%7D-co-browser/ampffnofmkdlpalldpbbmndgnidgfmkc co-browser] I'm involved in illustrates that you don't necessarily need to centralise access.  You can bring things together in other ways.  For example, in addition to things like instant collaborations between virtual spaces (e.g. other schools, PCAD) etc, one thing the co-browser does is produce a list of popular webpages (restricted to certain domains, like your various spaces on the web and intranet) moving about in real time as the anonymised people who share that virtual space move around.  It's set up to project into shared real spaces, like the atrium, so that the virtual rhythms of the group become more apparent and tangible to everyone in it.  As well as a simple reflection of explicit knowledge, this produces a direct feedback loop that "learns" dynamically and shares the sort of [[Tacit Knowledge|tacit knowledge]] that underpins a digital community and its culture.

What I'm saying is that digital education can be more than education using digital tools.  It's also an opportunity for some education in using digital tools and doing that together.

Like the school, only digital.

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