- All systems are open.
- All systems are self-organizing, including human systems.
Every decent scientist understands that systems are never ever closed.
Harrison Owen | Opening Space for Science | Science ‘UnSummit’ 2010 – YouTube
Autistic people are the most productive if allowed to self-organise in teams with a clear autistic / neurodivergent majority, such that interactions with typical teams are limited to the mutual exchange of knowledge and tools in accordance with the agreed purpose of the team, and such that autistic people are not expected to continuously conform to the social expectations of the surrounding culture.
The Beauty of Collaboration at Human Scale: Timeless patterns of human limitations
Self-Organized Learning Environments
Great things happen when you provide learners open space and open technology and then set them loose to pursue intrinsic motivation and experiential learning. They self-organize, much like the self-organizing teams of companies and open source communities like Automattic and WordPress.
How do we build learning environments that embrace intrinsic motivation: autonomy, mastery, and purpose?
The Gift: LD/ADHD Reframed
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization.
If you allow the educational process to self-organize, then learning emerges.
It’s not about making learning happen. It’s about letting it happen.
The teacher only raises the question, and then stands back and admires the answer.
My wish is to help design a future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their wonder and their ability to work together.
Help me build this school.
It will be called the School in the Cloud.
It will be a school where children go on these intellectual adventures driven by the big questions which their mediators put in.
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud – YouTube
Learning itself is actually an emergent phenomenon like a hive or a thunderstorm.
What happened after TED Prize 2013 | Sugata Mitra | TEDxUFM – YouTube
“You go there, I will go with you”
“You go there, I will go with you”
A SOLE is a mildly chaotic environment of children, clustered around the Internet, in search of answers to Big Questions.
The teacher is a friend, on this journey….
The Future of Learning | Sugata Mitra | TEDxNewcastle
Loosely-Coupled, Tightly-Aligned, Self-Organizing Teams
Culture is important. Human-centered education does best in open by default, “communication is oxygen” cultures informed with the hacker ethos of flexible improvisation and continuous iteration.
In this 2 part video series, Spotify discusses their agile engineering culture and their history with scrum. This as a good primer on agile and loosely-coupled, tightly-aligned, autonomous teams.
