Peeragogy Chatbot!

In 2011, in an invited Regent's Lecture at UC Berkeley (video), I explained how teaching social media issues and literacies using social media had helped steer me to a "co-learning" pedagogy. I proposed a radical experimental question: what if a group of people with no subject matter expertise, with no specific teacher, wanted to harness the power of search, YouTube, Wikipedia, and other online resources to learn about a subject without school or teacher? The result: peeragogy. An online community of educators from around the world coalesced and created The Peeragogy Handbook -- providing the know-how necessary to answer my question. After a year, I stepped away from leading the group, which led itself peeragogically (with special efforts by Joe Corneli, Charlie Danoff, and dozens of others around the world).

Now, introducing the peeragogy chatbot.

From Fabrizio Terzi to the peeragogy group (now in its 14th year)

Dear all,

In the past few weeks, I’ve been turning a simple intuition into something real.
I’m not a developer — but with a bit of stubbornness and the help of AI, PeeragogyBot came to life.

It’s an open-source conversational assistant trained on over 5,000 fragments from the Peeragogy Handbook V3 —
that’s more than 2.5 million characters of distilled collaborative learning, ready to start new conversations.

It’s not perfect. But it’s alive.
And it’s designed to grow — not in isolation, but through shared exploration.

You can think of it as an interactive layer for the online Handbook: a tiny popup that expands ideas as you read.
Or imagine it embedded in any learning project where collaboration, curiosity, and co-creation are at play.
At its core, it’s an AI trained to learn with you, not for you.

🔧 It’s an experiment — and like all experiments, it thrives when diverse minds come together.
Whether you're an educator, a designer, a dreamer, or just curious, your perspective matters.
You don’t need to code to contribute: feedback, questions, provocations, and playful exploration are all welcome.

📥 Ready to try it out and help shape its future?
Even a few lines of feedback can spark something new.

Try it here:

• Full-page version  

Code, README, and full context:
https://github.com/FTG-003/Peeragogy_ChatBot

Next: Fabrizio proposes facilitating the emergence of useful peeragogy patterns via swarms of AI Agents:

A collaborative initiative where a swarm of AI agents engages directly in peeragogical practice to learn and contribute to the field.

Each AI would adopt a specific peeragogical role (facilitator, synthesizer, critic, archivist, etc.), delving into relevant content, posing questions, and exploring applied practices.
Meanwhile, the Peeragogy community would serve as peer reviewers — supporting, guiding, and remixing along the way.
The outcome? A self-developing handbook, generated through a distributed process of collaborative cognitive co-creation.

It’s an exploratory, interdisciplinary initiative — a meaningful interplay between different forms of intelligence.
A concrete example of Peeragogy in Action.