Comparing the models of hegemonic news ownership and its crowdfunded alternative to the current structure in UK education seems to fit at first glance quite nicely. With Michael Gove/Nicky Morgan as the Rupert Murdoch character presiding over a clearly ideological reign of damaging changes widely condemned by the journalists/teachers within the respective professions. There are clear parallels here, and ones that when drawn out into a hierarchical form show just how much potential for interaction and engagement a crowdfunded model could generate in education.
In the diagram below the last column which represents a student centred curriculum in which students design their own curriculum pathways (checked, standardised and guided by their teachers) highlights how students could be engaged much further up the value chain and at more or less every stage. This is in comparison to the current educational hierarchy in which students are only engaged right at the end. This is food for thought when designing student centred, crowd based collaborative resources and ideas.
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