Collaboration and Reciprocity, Habituation and Holisticism, and the Cultural Capital of Creative Lifelihood
Whether peer and near-peer learning communities unite around, evidence a joint-undertaking process between learners and more experienced practitioners. OMG!’s fundamental language evoked this: both campers and counselors were called directors from the moment the camp began, a system that. On the first day of the camp, selections of the directors’ work were played, meant to provide fodder for ideas or curiosity about specific techniques. The second day, the kids were like, ‘We did that special effect yesterday, I want to do this and that. The amount of response that we had to this method of working with kids was way different to anything I’d ever seen before in any tutoring or teaching situations,” he said. “It was because we had groups of five kids. By the third day everyone was on board, and it was literally collaboration rather than top-down instruction. They’re learning by doing as opposed to learning by teaching.” In its weeklong life span, OMG! displayed every face...