spot on - but do we need the national curriculum?
isn't that a compromise as well?
isn't this unleashing about curiosity, and the natural process of learning. why impose content strands?..
while the nat curriculum may be better.. it's not the best is it?
Shirky's Cognitive Surplus - all over but esp p. 190 on the printing press:
because each reader had access to more books, intellectual diversity not uniformity was the result. this increase in diversity of sources corroded faith in older institutions. (standards?..)
and on: make war, then love -
It’s as though we went as far as we could, in our own heads, then leapt outside of them, into cities, and left our heads behind. -3 paragraphs up from the end.
do you think our heads, or enough of our heads, or enough of our heads and others' heads with the use of the web, have caught up enough that now we can make the cities us?
cognitive surplus - ness.
seems you think so here:
we stare down into our screens, and find within them a connection we had almost forgotten. It touches something so ancient – and so long ignored – that the mobile now contends with the real world as the defining axis of social orientation.
People are often too busy responding to messages to focus on those in their immediate presence. It seems ridiculous, thoughtless and pointless, but the device has opened a passage which allows us to retrieve this oldest part of ourselves, and we’re reluctant to let that go.
so - shouldn't we be more about using those devices for conversations..(than standards) deep tacit knowledge conversations. that lead to trust based relationships, that lead to bringing people together.
These kinds of things have been possible before, but the National Curriculum gives us the reason to do it.
i think the reason to do it is because each of us has curiosities deep within.. the nat curric is if we didn't have access to these connections.
Shirky again:
on new networks.. we thought - i'll use it to help me find info, etc.. but what we actually did was communicate and share.
our desire to communicate with one another has turned out to be one of the most stable features of the current environment.
the answers are more in the opportunities (creating serendipity) for each other by the culture of the groups we form..
is your plexus what we're looking for? is someone in ed testing it out, can we test it out? do you have yet a space on plexus where you can have a coffeehouse convo? jetsons quality?
Shirky again:
on new networks.. we thought - i'll use it to help me find info, etc.. but what we actually did was communicate and share.
our desire to communicate with one another has turned out to be one of the most stable features of the current environment.
the answers are more in the opportunities (creating serendipity) for each other by the culture of the groups we form..
is your plexus what we're looking for? is someone in ed testing it out, can we test it out? do you have yet a space on plexus where you can have a coffeehouse convo? jetsons quality?
i can't seem to read your posts fast enough.
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