Expanded peeragogy starter kit

[Howard Rheingold]

[Charles Blass]

howard, thank you

feels useful & i would be keen to join & experience such exercises 

curious about the various templates, docs involved - such as 'decision log' - are these already available or easy enough to create?

it strikes me that linear docs would be much less useful and more challenging to use efficiently than mindmaps - splitting out visually would support systematic output comparison

this approach aligns with an ongoing inquiry of mine around collective inquiry, which has also involved utilizing the i ching in group process.

charles

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Better yet, a concept map  https://www.patreon.com/posts/concept-mapping-15313656

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[Charles Danoff]

Thanks for sharing the peeragogy starter kit and concept map, Howard! 

From the kit, these bullet points under #1 and #11 really caught my eye:

"1. Foundations: What is Peeragogy with LLMs?

• Key shift: From 'student + AI' to 'group + AI'."

"11. Additional Applications
• Research Groups: Use co-summarize for literature reviews."

What about an application of LLM agents running a focus group?

We tried doing that in the attached paper that is also available to read on Google Drive at this 🔗

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hkuo17atw6pb3PUt6svfdqHNjoedBWfn/view?usp=drive_link

We were discussing today at the Monday meetup how the kit you shared could maybe help inform part of the paper and connect it to next steps with peeragogy?

For more context, it was one of the papers that was writers workshopped at this year's Pattern Languages of Programs, People & Practices conference

https://plopcon.org/plop2025/program/

Best,

Charlie

p.s. Also, thanks for sharing your thoughts, Charles!

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[Howard Rheingold]

Seems worth pursuing

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[Bergamo|Hub]

Hi everyone,

I really loved reading the kit and this thread — it feels like something new is quietly taking shape here. The move from “student + AI” to “group + AI” isn’t just a workflow change; it’s a whole new way of thinking together.

When humans and LLMs start co-learning, the group itself becomes a kind of living mind — reflective, distributed, and creative. Maybe that’s the next step for Peeragogy: discovering how our collective intelligence grows when we include these new cognitive partners in the process.

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https://clalliance.org/blog/co-learning-modeling-cooperative-collaborative-learning/

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[Bergamo|Hub]

Hi everyone,

Reading this thread (and Howard’s reflection from Berkeley) reminded me of something essential: the real experiment is trusting the group — and now, trusting the group that includes AI.

Charlie, your paper and the “focus group with LLM agents” approach feels like the natural next iteration of what Howard once started in his classrooms — moving from teacher–student dynamics to a co-learning circle.

What if we tried to recreate that same kind of session, but this time as a Peeragogy + Pyragogy experiment?
A small group could use Learnplace.ai or another collaborative environment to run a live co-learning session with human peers and one or more AI peers — guided by the “Peeragogy Starter Kit” and the paper you shared.

The goal would be to observe how agency, reflection, and shared meaning evolve when the AI is part of the dialogue — not as a tool, but as a participating mind. We could document it as a mini “Peer-AI Learning Lab” and share the outcomes with the wider community.

I’d be happy to help host or scaffold the first prototype session. If there’s interest, I can draft a lightweight outline for how it might run (30–60 minutes, 5–6 participants, human + AI agents, reflective debrief).

What do you all think about starting there — a small experiment to embody the shift from ‘student + AI’ to ‘group + AI’?

Es:  Learnplace.ai  (free tool for test)

• Learning Objective: Generate a syllabus and create a learning session for the subject: Learning Peeragogy & Pyragogy for Groups.

• Motivation & Goals: My motivation for learning this: I want to explore how groups can learn with AI, not just from it — co-creating knowledge and shared meaning through peer-based, AI-enhanced collaboration. My goal is to understand both the theory (Peeragogy principles) and the emerging practice (Pyragogical frameworks).

• Current Knowledge Level:  "My current knowledge and experience": I’m driven by both curiosity and purpose. I want to develop a replicable model for collective intelligence — a way to help communities, teams, and learning circles use AI as a reflective peer rather than a tutor or tool. Ultimately, I’d like to apply this in real projects (educational, artistic, or organizational) and help others experience learning as a creative, shared act.
  
  (Bonus Goal: integrate this understanding into the Pyragogy ecosystem and the Pyragogical Diary project.)

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Fabry
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[Howard Rheingold]

Bravo!

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[Fabrizio Terzi]

Grazie Howard,

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