I've seen this so many times before. I'd be more interested in ways in which communication software can help build grass roots communities to enable to do this for themselves. I think the process is a social one and software won't cut it except for those who already have access and a supportive learning community (usually well informed and monied parents) around them. Build something that enables that community transformation and it would be a start - no-one ever proposes that model anywhere because scaling a machine based system is easier to propose and implement. Using tech to build smarter learning networks at grass roots level is trickier and always avoided yet might have more impact in those communities that need it most. What people need are good mentors that do that - not software. When will people realise this? To have a cultural change in learning like this you need to co-opt more people willing to act as mentors and do all the things mentioned in the video. Now how to do that is the tricky bit. You cannot synthesise cultural change you can only facilitate it. If you want to take a computer science model to social dynamics you might come unstuck pretty quickly if all your focus is on abstracting the transmission of knowledge - it still needs to be transmuted through human interaction (maybe in smarter ways) but screens won't do it on their own. We already have enough tools on the internet to do everything propounded in the video but it isn't happening. Look at the models out there that achieve educational change and many times they involve the co-opting of whole communities involved in a culture of learning - whether it is literacy in Cuba (whatever you think of the regime they have been very successful) or a whole town learning to play an instrument. To have cultural change you need to change the culture of teaching and learning into a community one where you co-opt everyone into the process. Then it becomes a more organic and fluent path to achievement, insight and enlightenment of sorts. There is no magic bullet. Use technology to bring people together not ghettoise them once again... Just a thought.
@L4LTV Agreed with pretty much all that you wrote. Specific to the "...community involvement..." I hope that developers would begin targeting the families, as well. Kids mimic what is modeled to them at home. Very little to no buy-in from the parents / guardians will translate into lackluster student participation in their own futures. I am not implying that kids do not like to learn, etc., simply stating that demonstrating value in learning for the sake of acquiring knowledge and cultivating intellectual curiosity have to begin long before the kids ever step into a classroom.
