Shereen El Feki, writes on health and social welfare issues in  Arab world

Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU

• Pragmatism: knowledge develops when we have good problems
• Open source culture (the falling costs for like minded people to locate each other, share info, pool knowledge, collaborate, & publish results back to world) is disrupting institutions (journalism, education, commerce, politics)
• How might these falling costs begin to improve journalism?
• Dream project: take the 50 most high selling drugs around world and find out what they’re selling for in every country
• We can now hold global giants accountable as never before
• Gift economy – winner is the person who gives the most away
• Open source journalism
• Assignment Zero to research trend of crowdsourcing drawing on participants – how to do it is a good problem (coordination) – in proximity can ask & answer questions, in distributed project don’t have that – need clarity when you don’t have proximity
• Off the Bus – enlisted people around the country to cover the campaign when it came to their city
• Crowdsourcing by the Guardian to analyze Tony Blair’s finances
• Crowdsourcing by Brian Lehrer – how much neighborhood store is charging for milk, lettuce, & beer
• Three word formula for the Internet – audience atomization overcome
• “That’s a really good problem”

Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?

• Questioning the form of the event
• We need questions and arguments
• Both journalists and educators repeat a lot
• Why do we need millions of instructors rewriting the same lecture in the age of Open courseware
• Educators need to become more curators than creators (why remake it except for ego?)
• Lecture does have it’s place to create a shared starting-point
• Notebooks.com
• Shared lecture enables an efficiency to be found
• Ethic: “do what you do best and link to the rest”
• The students must be the starting point
• Move the customer/reader/student up the design chain
• Students/readers/customers no longer just consumers (implied ref. to prosumers)
• Students know always know what they need to  know (as I like to say, you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it)
• Tests should be used to find out what they don’t know
• Wrong answers are opportunities and challenges
• We are not in industrial age anymore, we’re in the Google age
• Google is looking for non-routine problem-solving skills (creative solutions) ~J. Rosenberg
• In the real world, the tests are all open book ~J. Rosenberg
• It’s easy to educate for the routine, hard to educate for the novel ~J. Rosenberg
• Are we preparing students for the Google age?
• What is the new model? – distributed Oxford
• Shift from creating and controlling content & managing scarcity to curating people and content & creating abundance of students & teachers
• Stop culture of standardized testing and teaching
• In the Google age, what is the point of teaching memorization?
• Education as process, not product
• Mistakes are the goals – life is a Beta
• Google’s 20% rule
• David Weinberger – “the room is the panel”

Here’s the complete text of Jarvis’ talk on his blog