Collaborative social platforms for agriculture extension”
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Collaborative social platforms for agriculture extension”
- 1. Jim Langcuster, Auburn University @extensionguy langcjc@auburn.edu Anne Adrian, eXtension at Auburn University @aafromaa aadrian@extension.org #KEDay2013 University of Guelph April 5, 2013
- 10. flickr.com/photos/yel02/216662431/ Become defined by how we contribute to ecosystems— platforms—through sharing, serendipitous insights, diversity of information, & innovative thinking.
- 12. In the flow Willing to fail Value in waste Borrowing from others
- 13. flickr.com/photos/torley/1902535767/ Jim Langcuster @ExtensionGuy langcjc@aces.edu Anne Mims Adrian @aafromaa aadrian@extension.org
- 14. Much of this presentation was inspired by Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson The Connected Company by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal Publication and Video on Platforms https://store.aces.edu/ItemDetail.aspx?ProductID=16954
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- I want to begin with a question:What do two preeminent physicists and the father of html (hypertext markup language) possibly have to do with a beaver? All four are platform builders. They built things that other people — or, in the case of beavers — other species can use and, most important, build on.
- What do I mean by a platform?The term “platform” can be used in two ways. In biological terms, platforms, such as beaver dams and coral reefs, provide the building blocks for dense ecosystems. For example, beaver dams not only enhance the life of beavers but also provide habitats or foraging opportunities for a number of species:Wild ducksGeeseKingfishersSwallows (to name a few) Among computer techies, a platform is a computerized system on which other developers can add hardware devices and software applications for particular purposes.
- Human-Constructed PlatformsTo an increasing degree, though, science writers and other social critics are gaining a deeper appreciation for how human-constructed platforms provide the bases for further tinkering and innovation. For example, famed science writer, Stephen Johnson, uses the term to describe the sorts of free-wheeling communications environments that produce significant, often far-reaching intellectual, scientific or technological innovations.There have been lots of them throughout human history.One early forerunner of human-constructed platforms: Seventeenth-century English coffeehouses — boisterous places that provided the ideal environments for sharing ideas. Something rather remarkable occurred within these coffeehouses: They became places where ideas not only were shared but also ended up mating and morphing into new ideas. Many of these ideas formed the basis for huge strides in innovation that benefitted billions of human beings across the planet.In fact, we’re beginning to realize that the knowledge ecosystems that grew out of these platforms have conferred tremendous advantages in terms of creativity and innovation. They have driven human beings to higher levels of achievement. In fact, we realize now more than ever that not only building these platforms but also ensuring that they remain as open and generative as possible will be one of the critical concerns of the 21st century.The last 60 years provide some remarkable examples of just how valuable and generative these platforms can be to human progress.Case in point: The Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in 1957.The efforts of two Laboratory physicists, William Guier and George Weiffenbach, to track the 20 megahertz signal of the orbiting Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1957 led eventually to the development of global positioning satellite technology. In time, this technology provided the basis for Google maps and many other useful technologies, including the ability to post restaurant reviews on yelp.comThe work of Tim Berners-Lee is another example of the long-term advantages platforms have conferred on humanity. Berners-Lee’s genius was in using hypertext markup language to pull various computer applications together — or, if you will, stacking one platform atop another.The Worldwide Web, which html made possible, is only one example of the array of technologies that have been stacked on top of previous platforms. Another especially example is Youtube, which was stacked on Adobe’s Flash platform and the programing language of Javascript and other Web elements.
- Case in point: The Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in 1957.The efforts of two Laboratory physicists, William Guier and George Weiffenbach, to track the 20 megahertz signal of the orbiting Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1957 led eventually to the development of global positioning satellite technology. In time, this technology provided the basis for Google maps and many other useful technologies, including the ability to post restaurant reviews on yelp.comThe work of Tim Berners-Lee is another example of the long-term advantages platforms have conferred on humanity. Berners-Lee’s genius was in using hypertext markup language to pull various computer applications together — or, if you will, stacking one platform atop another.The Worldwide Web, which html made possible, is only one example of the array of technologies that have been stacked on top of previous platforms. Another especially example is Youtube, which was stacked on Adobe’s Flash platform and the programing language of Javascript and other Web elements.
- Extension PlatformsExtension educators can point to their own rather impressive history of platform building and stacking. In fact, these educators were platform builders more than a century before this definition was conceived. Efforts to contain an especially virulent cotton plant pest, known as the boll weevil, in the Deep South is an example of a platform that gave rise to many platforms: crops entomology, crop dusting, crops scouting, to name only a few — is one example. Other platforms that were built off the U.S. Extension platform include the U.S. Farm Bureau System, public health education, applied home economics, 4-H, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (now the Natural Resources Conservation Service), and community resource development.
- What’s Missing Today?We have been building platforms, highly generative platforms, throughout our history. The problem is that the kinds of platforms we have built and continue to build are not open and generative enough to meeting the building codes of the 21st century. Why? Because we live in an age in which people are not only better educated but also better equipped to empower themselves and to build their own platforms without the assistance of highly credentialed educators. We’re being called upon to build new platforms that are generative and convenient enough to appeal to more sophisticated users.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/4049950966/http://www.flickr.com/photos/rorycellan/3916832626/
- It’s great news that Extension educators are adopting social media at a faster rate. But the times are calling on us to do something even more important: to cultivate a new mindset. We’ve got to learn how to combine our traditional outreach methods with social media techniques to assure that our platforms are the most open, generative and convenient as possible. But we’ve also got to understand how these new platforms will transform our client from consumers into prosumers — in other words, people who are actively engaged in the design and planning of our educational products.http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/2675323741/
- Our New Charge: Transitioning from Programs to PlatformsIn the past, a number of factors forced us to deliver our products in linear ways. Right now, we’re still defined by how well we deliver our programs rather than by how well we develop ecosystems. In the future, we will be valued less for the programs we deliver, more for the platforms and ecosystems we build and participate in. The more open and generative these platforms and ecosystems are, the better.Extension helped build a global scientific farming model that has fed billions over the past century using older platforms. The human infrastructure we provided within the last century has facilitated the sharing of knowledge in much the same way that railroads and multi-lane highways have facility the delivery of manufactured goods from place to place. The good news is that there is a stronger emphasis than ever on building technological infrastructure to secure the most optimal levels of creativity and innovation. The bad news is that we no longer will be a critical component of this infrastructure unless we find a way to build more open, generative platforms.Simply put, surviving in the 21st century will require our developing a more open-ended approach to outreach. We shouldn’t find that imperative all that threatening: historically speaking, we are simply being called upon to close the circle, to return to our roots.One critical need we will serve will be helping our audiences deal with the vast tidal waves of words, symbols and data pouring out of their laptops, iPads and smartphones minute by minute, hour by hour. One of the most prized skills in the future will be the ability to collect vast amounts of information and assemble it into forms that they can use — the reason why our learning to be aggregators and curators will be an important part of platform and ecosystem building in the future.
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