the wisdom of the crowd isn't always exactly brilliant bit it could be applicable somewhere:
I think I'm going to try and take the theories of power and hegemony (and the critique of these!) alongside the active audience /pluralist values of the internet age and how these are shown in the crowd funded model of journalism and try and relate it all to a similar design for education. So instead of the news industry we have media curriculum or just curriculum. So at the start of each unit or year. Students choose and 'buy / fund' a new course from an array of options. They can design the content of the curriculum to an extent . Hopefully this will have similar results in terms of engagement, participation, breaking hegemonic control over participants and content that have potentially been seen in news but also with the new changes to media studies. We seem to just give out the curriculum to students, get surprised when they aren't engaged and then spend ages trying to find resources that would fit their idea of what constitutes appealing so why don't we let them design the content (within a set framework) and we, as the people who know the theory and spec, can guide them through. Students could decide /vote/buy from 6 different media studies courses at the start of the year and then choose which one suits them. (The problems of the crowd would be seen here though)
Maybe instead of crowd funded journalists investigating a topic for their readers, you could have crowd 'funded' teachers teaching particular specialist topics that students couldn't get on their current curriculum but were genuinely interested in.
I think this idea would be really interesting if you could have a whole crowd funded school or sixth form for instance (imagine the administrative nightmare of that!) but is probably a little pointless when just doing this with 6 students in your media class at the start of a new unit , as they would choose and bring their own stuff to the table anyway
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