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Join workgroup →Daveed's reply to Renad Baomar, sent by email:
Hi Renad,
Thank you for reading DP10, and for keeping young people at the center of it. You are right that real examples and simple activities would make the ideas easier to grasp for someone who is new to all of this.
I've turned that into a proposal, credited to you:
In DP10, below the sentence "3.10 Over-gamification Learning badges and points reward completion,…", I've proposed: "For young people new to the meta-layer, learning works best through short, real activities rather than explanation. A class can annotate a news article together and compare the context different zones add; a youth group can run a two-week local mapping project and earn a PEARL badge for what it actually built. Each activity should take minutes to start, need no prior vocabulary, and end with something the learner made."
It will show up in the chapter's discussion, and you can comment on or refine it there.
With thanks, Daveed
Tianqun Pan sent these notes on DP10 by email:
Metaweb seeks to build an ideal future community encompassing individual humans, AI tools, and artificial agents. Within this community, human individuals serve as both contributors and beneficiaries. This is an ambitious undertaking. Below are my comments on Chapter 10:
It is highly significant that Metaweb frames “education” as a desirable or ideal property of the meta-layer. The education defined in DP10 is fundamentally citizen empowerment education underpinned by distributed digital public infrastructure. It does not teach users “how to use a product”; rather, it equips users to participate in the governance of digital public spaces and grow through such participation. Its educational objective is not to have users memorize factual knowledge, but to foster human agency: empowering people to comprehend systems, exercise critical use of them, participate in governance, and join in co-construction. Conceptually, this aligns closely with the vision of the next-generation open web.
This chapter elaborates in detail on the dimensions of expected education. I would argue, however, that overly granular descriptions of these dimensions at the conceptual stage may constitute a liability rather than an asset. Fine-grained specifications become necessary only in the design and implementation phases.
I believe “education” may not be suitable as the name for this property. Conventionally, education connotes an authority figure conveying predefined knowledge to students, in which educators (teachers) and learners (students) stand in an unequal relationship. Participants within Metaweb, even when involved in formal Metaweb learning, absorb formative insights actively or through osmosis instead of acting as passive recipients. I therefore suggest renaming this property to Self-Growing. If “education” is to be preserved, the compound label education and self-growing would be preferable.
I observe that “Pearl” is presented as an acronym for prepare, engage, reflect, leverage. The letter “a” is unaccounted for in this set. Might Pearl stand for a five-verb acronym: prepare, engage, apply, reflect, leverage?
Daveed's reply to Tianqun Pan, sent by email:
Dear Tianqun,
Thank you for these notes. You grasped the point of DP10 well: it is about agency and participation, not about teaching people to use a product.
You also spotted a real gap. PEARL has five stages, and the chapter listed only four. You suggested "Apply" for the missing A. In the University at Buffalo framework that PEARL comes from (Huber, Heath, Baxter & Reed, 2022), the A stands for "Add value": producing outputs mapped to identified needs or opportunities. So I've used that wording, and credited the fix to you:
In DP10, I've proposed changing "Design badges around Prepare, Engage, Reflect, and Leverage, with evidence required at each stage." to "Design badges around Prepare, Engage, Add value, Reflect, and Leverage, with evidence required at each stage."
In DP10, below the sentence "Engage: participate in a meaningful task or community activity", I've proposed: "Add value: produce outputs mapped to identified needs or opportunities"
They will show up in the chapter's discussion, and you can comment on or refine them there.
Your suggestion to rename the property to "Self-Growing", and your point that fine-grained detail may belong in the design phase rather than the concept, are questions for the DP10 workgroup as a whole. I am sharing them there rather than changing the chapter on my own.
With thanks, Daveed
Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi sent these notes on DP10 by email:
Thanks for the feedback.
The second one is what I meant.
Daveed's reply to Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, sent by email:
Hi Jesse,
Thanks for confirming. I've posted the second reading, on understanding tokenized rewards, credited to you:
In DP10, below the sentence "Failure mode: participants use AI-rich environments without…", I've proposed: "Participants should also understand how tokenized rewards work before they take part: what a crypto or token reward on a given chain is, what it can and cannot be exchanged for, what risks and costs come with it, and how rewards can change what people choose to do. Contribution in decentralized communities is often rewarded this way, and taking part should be an informed choice."
It will show up in the chapter's discussion, and you can comment on or refine it there.
With thanks, Daveed
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