anya kamenetz

holy cow - i get to meet her today.

at the colorado academy - another holy cow.. their history is amazing. what a place.
head of school - Mike Davis - on Anya's visit
i love what Anya says here:

The more I think about it, the more I think that what’s key in that equation is the student voice. While educators continue to unearth and transmit the best of the past and current knowledge, students individually and collectively need to be empowered to question the structures in place and to be free to pursue their own passions. No decision of curriculum, grade, or whatever should be imposed from above without students taking responsibility for their own learning. This would drive diversity within the system as it adapts to a multiplicity of needs, freeing everyone from the yoke of standardization. And it would drive the system toward the future. I see this as more of a gut renovation than a demolition project.


i think the challenges talked about in the horizon report are actually are plus.. if we realize the benefit of zooming out to the limit of these exponentiating possibilities. we simply can't keep up - which drives us to a new paradigm. not - can we keep up, keep ahead, but let's just jump in. immersion is the key. which is so beautifully humane. it's Shirky's cognitive surplus blending with Hagel and Brown's tacit potential. finding the stuff we want to know in life. in people. in trusting relationships.
i believe Chris Anderson touches on it here, and i believe Roger Schank is working on it here, and my kids completely get it here and here.
video is pushing us past linear static knowledge, it's immersing us back into a fully dimensional life. it's connecting people with people. 
how to tap into that, how to do part 4 of the challenges in the horizon report - that's what i think our biggest challenge should be. as we focus on the process of learning alone.. no matter what a learner chooses to learn/seek out, per passion, how can we zoom in and out of documentation, esp video and conversation, (get pivot style) so that our time in tech is at it's minimum, and the adjacent possibilities (Steven Johnson) of the trail we leave for others is at it's maximum? (Kevin Kelly's what tech wants)




how you change a room- kevin


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