Acrobatic brainstorm @Peckham Rye Park

With George, Lucia, Muhammad, Ricardo & Philo

What is cc:Lab (now)

cc:Lab is:

• a community
• a platform
• a way of learning
  a fascilitator for learning & teaching
• friendly, inclusive, safe
• nomadic
• fostering initiative
• social: a way to meet, communicate and get inspired
• learning from each other
• spreading from person to person
• non-specific about topics
• for free
• for everybody who is motivated to contribute (by learning or teaching)
• fascilitated at Goldsmiths
• a process (organic and undefined)
• practical
• learning by doing
• free time activity
• saving free time

Motivation for people

"Learn to teach, teach to learn"
"Teaching is the new learning"

To learn

• curiosity
• learn a skill
• learn to teach
• free, low cost
• social, fun, meeting people
• inspiration by diverse range of people
• network
• access to resources

To teach

• practise teaching (teach to learn)
• social activity, meeting people
• teaching is the new learning; a new way to consolidate knowledge
• sharing passion
• new perspectives, inspiration
• building confidece and reputation
• networking
• promotion
• earning something?

A Workshop

A workshop has:

• a location
• a date and time
• a topic
• a teacher
• 'learners'
• (equipment)
• a price?

Most of these are crowd-sourced.

Ingredients of this idea

• Time (of participants & organisers)
• Space (for workshops)
• People (participants & organisers)
• Publicity, Promotion
• Trust, Quality Control
  • gamificaiton
  • verification
  • references
  • guidelines
• open-source +; instruction-kit (how to fork and start your own)
• Incremental development, Prototyping
• Website platform
  • communication
  • planning
  • trust
• Legal issues (e.g. liability)
• How local does this idea function?

Value for teachers in monetary exchange?

• price depends on participants
• workshops should always be inclusive & accessible
• money can help sustainability
• Teachers could ask for minimal set of wanteds (similar to trade school)
• First taught class & free
• discounts for students?
• Donation-based, pay what you want?

For whom?

• Everybody
  • Children? Why not? Liability?
  • Professors as students! Or as teachers!
• semi-professional amateurs are likely to teach
• students & young professionals have knowledge and possibly wish to share

Scale up

Funding

In order to apply for funding, this idea should have a worked out plan with use-case, roles and argumentation for succes, but no need for organisational structure (e.g. company / non-profit).

Roles

• IT
• Economics
• Lay
• Entrepreneurship
• Community management

Other initiatives

• the Hub
• www.skillshare.com
• General Assembly
• Bar Camp (check for guidelines)
• Our Goods
• Access Space (Sheffield)
• trade school
• the public school
• www.meetup.com
• www.eventbright.com

Summary

• We are a community
• We facilitate Learning & Teaching practical topics that fit a 2 hour workshop
• We are nomadic, crowd-based & decentralised
• The community is inclusive, friendly & safe
• We need a website as platform for communication, planning & establishing trust
• Money seems useful, but how?
• There is place for any topic, but we promote practical skills
  • Good practise in terms of topic emerges
  • Learning by doing
• public guidelines are important
• this is for everyone, but mainly targeted at students, young professionals & open-source community (all these are likely to have skills, be enthusiastic about the idea and like to share)
• Instruction kit for others to copy and install this idea locally
• Next actions:
  • publicise our activities
    • blog?
    • social media?
  • a website
    • trust
    • communication
    • platform for workshops
    • tool for planning workshop
    • payment?
  • more brainstorm
    • what about money for teachers? from learners? donations?

Name

Picnic is an easy, cool, great sounding everyday word that conveys collaborative, fun, activity, initiative and togetherness. (Baby elephant would make a great logo. Really)

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