"Going bedouin":
v. Downsizing a business by eliminating all but the core assets; employees and the communications links between them.
A company that has gone completely bedouin lacks a physical location, operating simply as a network of engineering, sales, and suport staff connected 24/7 by Internet and cell phone.
-- Wired Magazine's "Jargon Watch", 6.06
As more and more businesses tip over the edge of this "go lean" paradigm, what prevents learners from taking control of their educational portfolio in the same way?
What prevents schools from becoming loose associations of learners who acts in a "bedouin" manner, working and learning and collaborating and questioning and researching and solving in a nomadic and virtual manner?
Can't they still all show up at the same building, play tetherball at recess, and show up for some sort of graduation along the way...but take the learning process itself within their own 'mentored' control?
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