Crowdsourcing
I'm new to the term 'crowdsourcing,' but the concept is familiar. For those of you new to it too, the term was developed a few years ago to indicate a change in how work and ideas may be generated. Basically, instead of an individual doing something, the company may open up its data to a large group of people who may be amateurs. It's not unlike some of the concepts advocated in the book Wikinomics.
How would this concept work in a classroom? Would a company ever be willing to turn data over to a group of students to work with? Would an artist be willing to give a group of students some images and allow the students to make sense of them? How could this create new meanings in and through the works of art? I'm going to look into playing with some ideas relating to new forms of media and how these may be developed through a variety of ways.