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Collaboration in Theatre and the Law

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  CompPrivConst for an example of how a group can use extended discussion to help one another's thought evolve.
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>		I don't mean to be overly critical of myself and my fellow students -- I mean to say that we have something to learn about how to work together, and our best teachers in that regard are each other. I appreciate the fact that you provide the wiki as a tool for us to learn collaboration on, but part of the reason I was interested in discussing theatre (a low-tech enterprise) is to tease out the difference between the act of collaboration and the tool used for it. A wiki is not a collaborative tool if it is not used as such, and a room full of people can collaborate with no technology whatsoever. The students in the seminars are indeed working together, but they should not be the only ones -- I hope we can learn to trust each other and learn from each other whether in courses where there is no wiki. I will go back to the essay to try to make this clear.
 
  • Now, ask yourself a question: what will happen when children grow up using this sort of technology for collaboration from their earliest schooling? What will it be like when such people begin to join the workforce in large numbers? That's when the Web really begins to change society.
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>		Having just spent the year placing a two-year-old in what is already called "school," I have some reservations that technology alone is going to form the next generation's sense of collaboration. The next generation will have enormous opportunities to use new technologies, but they will also have enormous pressures to out-perform each other from a very early age. Twitter can be used as the platform for an unimaginably ambitious democracy movement or it can be the means by which marketers reach teenagers spending their parents money on junk. I am glad that my children will have the tools to work with others substantially more effectively than, say, the members of the Constitutional Convention did. But will that technology alone turn a generation into the first society in the history of humankind not to trick, beguile, and backstab? Wouldn't it be pretty to think so.

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