innovation
connections
they are alive. ongoing. constantly evolving.
so who decides what is being learned?
if it's not the learner, won't the learning be compromised?
and if there were some way for someone to decide what's being learned, wouldn't that something be continually being tweaked/morphed as it lives in an open world?
i get the efficiency piece. but i believe we're missing more by being efficient. we're missing the essence of learning. we're missing the essence of mathematical thinking... of logic... of beauty.
more than anything else though.. we're missing the essence of community. we're missing each other.
from this article Kenneth quotes Parker Palmer:
Authentic teaching and learning requires a live encounter with the unexpected, an element of suspense and surprise, an evocation of that which we did not know until it happened. If these elements are not present, we may be training or indoctrinating students, but we are not educating them.
As long as "effectiveness" is the ultimate standard by which we judge our actions, we will act only towards the ends we are sure we can achieve.
and George Siemens just tweeted this (i was purposefully eavesdropping, but didn't check context - apologies if i'm messing with his words)
Knowledge exists in connections. Learning is growing/pruning those connections.
is school of one personalized learning by design or personalized info gathering by design.
i could be completely wrong. i know so little. about many things... but about school of one.
i love how they seem to be using the computer more like a computer. and i love that they see the need for personalization.
is there no way to let the learner learn in a more organic and holistic way?
in school of one - who decides the skills needed to learn? and when?
Living things are systems that tend to respond to changes in their environment, and inside themselves, in such a way as to promote their own continuation.
Growth: Maintenance of a higher rate of anabolism than catabolism. A growing organism increases in size in all of its parts, rather than simply accumulating matter.
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