michael wesch

Michael Wesch: What killed their souls? from Palomar5 on Vimeo.

he reads this twice a year
this has been around a lot of people are doing it
why is it not happening...?
lot of reasons..
why is there no systemic changes - there are systems with a lot of inertia already
like the buildings we are in,
like the beu
we've got this habitual mindset that says this is what ed is

when you really look at it, the big learning occurs in a transformative moment
every act of significant learning involves a damage to oneself (thomas sass)

when you have a new leap in learning, you have to tear down your old self
transformation is a dangerous thing - so that makes it hard to take into the class period
subjects into 15 wk periods is crazy
ie: if someone hasn't made it through the transformation, you leave them in a broken shell at end of 15 wks
so unless you can see that you can see this thing through - a lot of profs avoid it

tech comes in - in creating informal learning environments that never stop, that have no boundaries

it's so outside today's structure - but it wouldnt' count toward my job.
very definition of it being informal - outside the system

in the US - when you talk about the "real world" what we mean is - not in the classroom.
crazy.
doesn't connect with the real world - we call it merely academic
perfect ie of how disconnected we have become

cliches - i gotta go to my class -
how is it your class?...
we have the blessing of a shared space,

so many things i'd like

why it's not happening on a large scale - people are living off the way it works now.. the new way isn't getting financed..
buck minster fullers, 1962: we will basically no longer have teachers by early 70's

alan kay
whole slew of books in lat 60's where everyone is saying what we're saying now. late 70's back to basics

late 60's war over, level economy, utopia height that never happened..
danger that we are going to relive the late 60's

a good day - when he starts class and rather than everyone being quiet - they are confused as to why he is taking the stage...
what killed their soul?.. how did we train them into this...

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