Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution: Digital Citizenship & Civic Engagement in a Post-Digital AgePeter Bryant @peterbryantHEHead of Learning Technology and InnovationLondon School of Economics and Political Science, UK

THECHALLENGE

Modern pedagogy/

civic engagement

is often…

SEQUENTIALSCAFFOLDED

ALIGNEDSTRUCTUREDSTRATIFIED

LEARNING

EXPERIENCING

LIVING

ACQUIRING

CONNECTING

RARELY ARE

LEARNING

SHARINGCONNECTING

CHANGING

What if

InformalCommunity led

Non-linearDemocratic

Problem solvingCollaborative

ChaoticAspirational

EmancipatoryOpen

engagementcould be…

ALLAT AMASSIVESCALE

USING

SOCIAL MEDIA

WHY

LEARNING

MASSIVE

CITIZENSHIP

Combination of learning approachesIntegrating participatory practicesEngaged individuals and groupsNo readings, no course, No lecturer, no teacher, maybe a guruNo sequence, enter at any timeLearning was an expectationLearning through practice, debate and citizenship

What we built

https://www.flickr.com/photos/leolondon/451273331

Where we finished

over 1500 users;over 725 idea submissions;over 125000 idea views;over 10000 comments;over 25000 votes cast;an 8500 word constitution;from more than 1m words written.Over 75% learnt something and 88&% were influenced by the communityParticipation went up across the project not DOWN https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/1470015134

RE-DEFINING MASSIVE

IMPACTRIPPLEPOWER OF ANALYSISEXPERIENCE

https://www.flickr.com/photos/balleyne/2668834386

RE-DEFINING OPEN

OPEN ACCESSOPEN PARTICIPATIONOPEN ACADEMYOPEN ENGAGEMENT

What happens when you empower a community to learn and engage in social change?Does this build an informed digital citizenry?Can this be more than civic engagement? Problem solving, capacity development or change?

And that’s what is next…