The Tao of WAO

Our introduction to Season 5 of the Tao of WAO!

Both seasoned speakers and facilitators, Laura & Doug chat about reentering in real life events. Get tips on preparing and running sessions, participating in them, networking and even event recovery in this episode. Links Support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at https://opencollective.com/weareopen Badge Summit: https://www.thebadgesummit.com/ https://blog.weareopen.coop/keep-badges-weird-helping-people-understand-the-badges-landscape-79cc8cf7281 https://www.laurahilliger.com/facilitating-speaking/ https://dougbelshaw.com/speaking/ https://www.laurahilliger.com/media-kit/ https://www.laurahilliger.com/leadership/leading-groups-personalities/

Today's guest is futurist, author and educator Bryan Alexander. Bryan is currently thinking loads about the intersection of education, technology and climate – so regular listeners will know why we're so excited to have him on. Bryan Alexander's sites: https://twitter.com/BryanAlexander/ http://futureofeducation.us/ https://bryanalexander.org/ https://ftte.us/ His books: Academia Next https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12088/academia-next Coming Soon: Universities on Fire by Bryan Alexander! Bryan's favourite book(s) war & peace tolstoy: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600 a thousand plateaus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Plateaus Other links: Age of Stupid https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/ Andreas Malm on how to blow up a pipeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline

Support our podcast! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Our guest Heather Leson is open advocate and the Digital Innovation Lead at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherleson/ https://twitter.com/HeatherLeson/ Heather's favourite book(s) Global Soul -https://bookshop.org/books/the-global-soul-jet-lag-shopping-malls-and-the-search-for-home/9780679776116 Invisible Women - https://bookshop.org/books/invisible-women-data-bias-in-a-world-designed-for-men/9781419735219 Currently Reading: Behave - Robert Sapolsky https://bookshop.org/books/behave-the-biology-of-humans-at-our-best-and-worst/9780143110910 Opening Up Social Impact-Focused Organizations https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6917798799012712449/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-organization/open-perspectives/main/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations.pdf https://github.com/open-organization/open-perspectives/raw/main/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations.epub Apps and courses Komoot https://www.komoot.com Applied Behavioral Design course https://www.behavioraldesign.academy/courses/applied-behavioral-design 50 shades of open: https://firstmonday.org/article/view/6360/5460 What we talk about when we talk about open https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/courses/open-course/

Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen In this episode Laura and Doug start chatting about Self Hosting IT and end up talking politics, perspectives, behaviour and more. - dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/05/23/jitsi-sociocracy/ - wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Fifty_Shades_of_Open - learnwith.weareopen.coop/courses/open-course/ - raw.githubusercontent.com/open-organiz…izations.pdf - app.optery.com/login

We talk about identity, civic society and how Twitter isn't a public square. Support our podcast! https://opencollective.com/weareopen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall - https://clalliance.org/blog/curate-or-be-curated-why-our-information-environment-is-crucial-to-a-flourishing-democracy-civil-society/ - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/04/25/highlights-from-the-internet-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/ The 4 charges: Internet is addictive, Shaping life through an algorithm, No democratic oversight, universal surveillance - Andy Clark "Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science" - McLuhan's 4 laws - how media/tech affect society: https://social-epistemology.com/2012/11/11/gregory-sandstrom-laws-of-media-the-four-effects-a-mcluhan-contribution-to-social-epistemology/ - https://ambiguiti.es/sitting-with-ambiguity/ - https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/04/26/twitter-musk-thoughts/ - https://www.laurahilliger.com/models/cyberspace-and-the-%e2%80%9cvirtualitatslagerung%e2%80%9d/

(Content warning) In this episode we speak with Kayleigh Walsh, an Outlandish colleague, about restorative justice, trust and more. This podcast season is currently unfunded. You can support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at https://opencollective.com/weareopen. Kayleigh's favourite book(s) - Richard Powers the overstory - House of Spirits Isabella Allende Restorative Justice - Circles SE: https://circlessoutheast.org.uk/ - Adrienne Maree Brown: https://adriennemareebrown.net/ - Building OUT: https://outlandish.com/building-out/

WAO stuff Learn with WAO launch https://blog.weareopen.coop/learn-with-we-are-open-co-op-8a4dd9f31874 Audience Ikigai https://blog.weareopen.coop/audience-ikigai-be0cebe4cea How to set Open Standards: https://blog.weareopen.coop/howto-set-open-standards-for-your-project-3e4aa1f57e1b Architectures of Participation https://weareopen.coop/aop Emergent Community building https://blog.weareopen.coop/emergent-community-building-a35f9431d8a https://Badges.community Newsletters https://thoughtshrapnel.com/newsletter/ Explaining ideas - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/02/01/explaining-ideas/ Check your perspective - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/02/04/check-your-perspective/ Decentralising the description of skills with OSMT - https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/02/03/skills-osmt/ https://www.laurahilliger.com/newsletter/ Recommended newsletters Dense Discovery: https://www.densediscovery.com/ Supergranular: https://supergranular.substack.com/ Memex Dan Hon Orbital Operations Just Two Things Anne Helen Peterson: https://annehelen.substack.com/ Sentiers University of Winds Aaron Davis Other stuff Bonfire Zappa project - https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/zappa_report Boring crypto definitions - https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/01/28/boring-crypto-definitions/ Sitting with ambiguity for innovation projects (or life in general!) - https://ambiguiti.es/sitting-with-ambiguity/ 8 tips for creating cultural change in your organization > https://opensource.com/open-organization/15/11/8-tips-cultural-change-organization Switching from Telegram to Signal - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/03/07/switching-from-telegram-to-signal/

Today we talk to our guest, Adam Procter, Interim Head of the new Department Art & Media Technology at University of Southampton about social impact games, game design and more. Support the Tao of WAO: https://opencollective.com/weareopen/ Adam Procter: https://discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/procter/ https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/feb/21/spawn-of-wordle-five-of-the-best-riffs-on-the-hit-word-game Adam's sites and tools: https://adamprocter.co.uk https://nodenogg.in/ https://discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/2021/07/06/wayfinder-game.html https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/games-design-and-art-degree-ba https://www.instagram.com/gamesdesignart/ Social Impact games: https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-can-gaming-make-us-go-greener-12372861 https://playing4theplanet.org/news/ggj21-gamers-to-act-for-nature/ https://webpages.tuni.fi/gamification/gamiforest-coffee-talks/ Daybreak https://www.daybreakgame.org https://medium.com/climate-crisis-the-game The homelessness game and others from Adam's students: https://kompile.co.uk/university/ PlayMob - take UN's SDGs and see if there's a way to influence design https://www.forbes.com/sites/afdhelaziz/2019/08/09/the-power-of-purpose-how-jude-ower-and-playmob-are-using-videogames-for-good/?sh=338b9d263791 The list of books Adam mentions: - teaching to transgress (bell hooks) - deschooling society (Ivan Ilich) >"Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting." — Ivan Illich - passion projects peers and play (Mitch Resnick) - Dune - Fight club (true I picked the weakest one :) - the monsters of education technology (Audrey Watters) - surveillance captalism (Shoshana Zuboff) - Nudge (Richard H. Thaler) - Catch 22 - The Catcher in the Rye - The design of everyday things (Don Norman) In a short commentary posted to her website in 2004, science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that the concept of technology is “consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialized technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.” Rather, she argued, technology should be understood more expansively, as the way “society copes with physical reality… the active human interface with the material world.” Technology, as the sum of “what we can learn to do.” - https://newpublic.org/article/1610/introduction

This episode we chat about misinformation and disinformation. We explore some useful frameworks about information and critical thinking too. Support us! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Fake news. It’s complicated. > https://firstdraftnews.org/articles/fake-news-complicated/ MisInfoCon > https://misinfocon.com/ The archive shows the most popular posts: https://misinfocon.com/archive Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/poi3.236 Memes --> https://misinfocon.com/meme-wars-f03dc6db471d Birds aren't real > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/podcasts/the-daily/why-would-anybody-claim-that-birds-arent-real.html The Zappa project > https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_cos/ Joe Rogan has responded to the protests against Spotify over his podcast > https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/npr/npr-story/1076891070