[OSList] Knowledge sharing open space?

[Harrison Owen]

Nancy - what you say about conversation connectors makes some sense. And I
have always been amazed how powerfully and efficiently the connections occur
with no effort on my part. This is particularly apparent in a multi-day
gathering - and my common experience has been that by the end of the first
day, and certainly during the second, major themes begin to link all the
conversations. I have no idea what the precise mechanisms are but I would
suspect that this is simply an aspect of the process of self organization.
If so then learning and knowledge generation is also a self organizing
phenomenon. This of course is exactly the conclusion of Sugata Mitra out of
his marvelous "Hole in the Wall" experiments with the street kids. (See his
TED presentations). If true, the implications of this for our understanding
of education at all levels are immense. It could turn out that we are
working much too hard in that department, or at the very least working in a
massively suboptimal fashion. Then again it could turn out that I am just
basically lazy - never wishing to do something that apparently takes care of
itself J

 

Harrison 

 

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Nancy White
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [OSList] Knowledge sharing open space?

 

I have been trying some new things with knowledge sharing OS in terms of the
harvest. The traditional notes are great, but we started doing some visual
harvests (sometimes with post it notes, card sorting, sometimes with a
graphic recorder, etc.) to start "connecting" conversations across sessions.
This has proven useful because often the people coming together for the OS
have TONS of knowledge to share, but less "line of sight" to the importance
and value of the PRACTICES of knowledge sharing over time (and beyond the
session). So while tons of knowledge can be shared during the event, the
breakthrough possibility is shifting towards more ongoing knowledge sharing
behaviors and practices over time. Does that make any sense?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Methorst, Dicky <dicky.methorst at minbuza.nl>
wrote:

Lisa, you mention a book about knowledge sharing Open Space or Open
Space in university settings. In what aspects is it different from any
other Open Space? I have been asked to facilitate a knowledge sharing
event on healthcare. I'm having a discussion with them on them next
Monday, so I am really interested to know from more experienced people
what I should take into account when doing the open space on knowledge
sharing.

Warm regards

Dicky Methorst

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