skillshare
and hourschool
and Cathy Davidson at Duke... (so many great links to what Cathy is doing... look into her if you're so inclined.. labs at Duke and beyond...)
to name a few..
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
ivan illich
focus:
the issue is with publicly prescribed learning... not with getting better at doing publicly prescribed learning.
and by doing... i mean - hooking/motivating/bribing/forcing people to follow your agenda.
[this isn't to say that all of us doing these things are ill intended. we just need to take time to zoom out, to step away, to respectfully question the core of what we're doing. we're spending all our time trying to get better at what we're doing. spinning our wheels.. getting more stressed. is what we're doing.. this prescribed learning.. ok with you? does it resonate with you?
the issue is with publicly prescribed learning... not with getting better at doing publicly prescribed learning.
and by doing... i mean - hooking/motivating/bribing/forcing people to follow your agenda.
[this isn't to say that all of us doing these things are ill intended. we just need to take time to zoom out, to step away, to respectfully question the core of what we're doing. we're spending all our time trying to get better at what we're doing. spinning our wheels.. getting more stressed. is what we're doing.. this prescribed learning.. ok with you? does it resonate with you?
8 reasons youth don't fight back
thank you Barry for sending this my way.
great article...
bleeds of Ivan Illich's deschooling society and tools of conviviality.
highly recommended read from me... to perhaps capture the essence of 2 great books..
the only part that didn't really resonate with me was #6
6. The Normalization of Surveillance. The fear of being surveilled makes a population easier to control. While the National Security Agency (NSA) has received publicity for monitoring American citizen’s email and phone conversations, and while employer surveillance has become increasingly common in the United States, young Americans have become increasingly acquiescent to corporatocracy surveillance because, beginning at a young age, surveillance is routine in their lives. Parents routinely check Web sites for their kid’s latest test grades and completed assignments, and just like employers, are monitoring their children’s computers and Facebook pages. Some parents use the GPS in their children’s cell phones to track their whereabouts, and other parents have video cameras in their homes. Increasingly, I talk with young people who lack the confidence that they can even pull off a party when their parents are out of town, and so how much confidence are they going to have about pulling off a democratic movement below the radar of authorities?
i'm more on the thinking that transparency is a new type of currency. we've trained ourselves to think it's bad, but that's because we've used it as a sign of mistrust. ie: we're not getting to know others through transparency.. we're checking up on them. and checking up on them about things that really don't matter. of course if transparency to you means that your parents are checking your grades... that's going to seem confining. if we use the word Surveillance - no doubt.
also not feeling the example - that kids no longer feel compelled to pull of a party. to me that trivializes and misrepesents the seriousness of this suppression. it makes it sound like this social change that needs to happen is really just about kids wanting to have fun and do things their way.
thank you Barry for sending this my way.
great article...
bleeds of Ivan Illich's deschooling society and tools of conviviality.
highly recommended read from me... to perhaps capture the essence of 2 great books..
the only part that didn't really resonate with me was #6
6. The Normalization of Surveillance. The fear of being surveilled makes a population easier to control. While the National Security Agency (NSA) has received publicity for monitoring American citizen’s email and phone conversations, and while employer surveillance has become increasingly common in the United States, young Americans have become increasingly acquiescent to corporatocracy surveillance because, beginning at a young age, surveillance is routine in their lives. Parents routinely check Web sites for their kid’s latest test grades and completed assignments, and just like employers, are monitoring their children’s computers and Facebook pages. Some parents use the GPS in their children’s cell phones to track their whereabouts, and other parents have video cameras in their homes. Increasingly, I talk with young people who lack the confidence that they can even pull off a party when their parents are out of town, and so how much confidence are they going to have about pulling off a democratic movement below the radar of authorities?
i'm more on the thinking that transparency is a new type of currency. we've trained ourselves to think it's bad, but that's because we've used it as a sign of mistrust. ie: we're not getting to know others through transparency.. we're checking up on them. and checking up on them about things that really don't matter. of course if transparency to you means that your parents are checking your grades... that's going to seem confining. if we use the word Surveillance - no doubt.
also not feeling the example - that kids no longer feel compelled to pull of a party. to me that trivializes and misrepesents the seriousness of this suppression. it makes it sound like this social change that needs to happen is really just about kids wanting to have fun and do things their way.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
ivan illich
from tools of conviviality:
p. 54:
More money spent under the control of the health profession means that more people are operationally conditioned into playing the role of the sick, a role they are not allowed to interpret for themselves. Once they accept this role, their most trivial needs can be satisfied only through commodities that are scarce by professional definition.
radical monopoly
schools tried to extend a radical monopoly on learning by redefining it as education. as long as people accepted the teacher's definition of reality, those who learned outside school were officially stamped "uneducated." p. 52
p. 53
radical monopoly imposes compulsory consumption and thereby restricts personal autonomy
each political party in the debate make sick-care a burning public issue and thereby relegates health care to an area about which politics has nothing important to say.
such power in the hands of a minority will produce only an increase in suffering and a decrease in personal self-reliance.
the establishment of radical monopoly happens when people give up their native ability to do what they can do for themselves and for each other, in exchange for something "better" that can be donen for them only by a major tool.
it introduces new classes of scarcity and a new device to classify people according to the level of heir consumption. this redefinition raises the unit cost of valuable service, differentially rations privilege, restricts access to resources, and makes people dependent.
bleeding of schooling the world - carol black
p. 63
the presence of a new school, a paved road, and a glass and steel police station defines the professionally built house as the functional unit, and stamps the self-built home a shanty. the law establishes this definition by refusing a building permit to people who cannot submit a plan signed by an architect. people are deprived of heir ability to invest their own time with the power to produce use-value, and are compelled to work for wages and to exchange their earnings for industrially defined rented space. they are deprived also of the opportunity to learn while building.
bleeding of program or be programmed - douglas rushkoff
p. 54:
More money spent under the control of the health profession means that more people are operationally conditioned into playing the role of the sick, a role they are not allowed to interpret for themselves. Once they accept this role, their most trivial needs can be satisfied only through commodities that are scarce by professional definition.
radical monopoly
schools tried to extend a radical monopoly on learning by redefining it as education. as long as people accepted the teacher's definition of reality, those who learned outside school were officially stamped "uneducated." p. 52
p. 53
radical monopoly imposes compulsory consumption and thereby restricts personal autonomy
each political party in the debate make sick-care a burning public issue and thereby relegates health care to an area about which politics has nothing important to say.
such power in the hands of a minority will produce only an increase in suffering and a decrease in personal self-reliance.
the establishment of radical monopoly happens when people give up their native ability to do what they can do for themselves and for each other, in exchange for something "better" that can be donen for them only by a major tool.
it introduces new classes of scarcity and a new device to classify people according to the level of heir consumption. this redefinition raises the unit cost of valuable service, differentially rations privilege, restricts access to resources, and makes people dependent.
bleeding of schooling the world - carol black
p. 63
the presence of a new school, a paved road, and a glass and steel police station defines the professionally built house as the functional unit, and stamps the self-built home a shanty. the law establishes this definition by refusing a building permit to people who cannot submit a plan signed by an architect. people are deprived of heir ability to invest their own time with the power to produce use-value, and are compelled to work for wages and to exchange their earnings for industrially defined rented space. they are deprived also of the opportunity to learn while building.
bleeding of program or be programmed - douglas rushkoff
seth godin
talent and vendors
shirky - culture of trust
different ballgame
pseudo-freedom may be worse than no freedom at all.
Monday, September 5, 2011
seth godin
back to (the wrong) school
creating people to do what they are told
vs
unleashing people who can create.
thank you Seth
Sunday, September 4, 2011
city as floor plan
is this swan macintosh? anyone know?
love it...spot on with city as floor plan ...meshing.it
http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/monk51295/city-as-floorplan
nic askew
polymath in the mango field
POLYMATH IN THE MANGO FIELD from Nic Askew on Vimeo.
not what you have but who you are
childlike curiosity - a whole new free world
what do you know to be in front of you
POLYMATH IN THE MANGO FIELD from Nic Askew on Vimeo.
not what you have but who you are
childlike curiosity - a whole new free world
what do you know to be in front of you
spaces
school on a boat
thanks Lisa Nielsen
geocaching
thanks Richard Byrne
spaces within currently permissable spaces
thank Amy
and the list goes on and on and on ..
let's unleash guys..
geocaching
thanks Richard Byrne
spaces within currently permissable spaces
thank Amy
and the list goes on and on and on ..
let's unleash guys..
seth godin
people looking for 'more of the same' aren't actively looking
this is huge. in a disruption esp.
those that may be just as dissatisfied. .. yet comfortable enough to not take risks... aren't actively looking.
and that ok. this is not a sell.
let's focus on people who can't not sell out.. during the shadows of the upward curve. they will have the freedom to exponentiate the movement.
thank you Seth.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
mary ann reilly
on rhizomes - Mary Ann’s image from post, 2 definitions, her chapter
When I asked my son what he had been learning he said he’s learned how to work with
others, how to search, locate, and evaluate information, how to run an effective server,
how to explain an installation process of mods to others, how to anticipate a partner’s
play in a game, how to build a structure together, how to imagine a place and build it,
how to give and take ideas, how to make mistakes and fix them, how to build a design
based on someone’s idea, how to script, how to model, how to resolve problems when
they arise, how to use resources to guide building, how to make games inside of games,
how to make films and upload to YouTube, and how to narrow the focus of a film.
During this learning, the boys are also learning about one another: siblings, where they
live, currency, geography, food, politics, and all things Minecraft. My son is adamant that
this playing is not learning.
It's not like school, he tells me repeatedly. Sadly, I think he's right.
..has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo. The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb 'to be,' but the fabric of the rhizome is conjunction, 'and . . . and . . . and' (pp.24-25)
Break the rhizome anywhere and the only effect is that new connections will be grown. The rhizome models the unlimited potential for knowledge construction, because it has no fixed points…and no particular organization (p. 389).
..a tangle of tubers with no apparent beginning or end, constantly changes shape, and appears to be connected at every point with every other point (p. 389).
When I asked my son what he had been learning he said he’s learned how to work with
others, how to search, locate, and evaluate information, how to run an effective server,
how to explain an installation process of mods to others, how to anticipate a partner’s
play in a game, how to build a structure together, how to imagine a place and build it,
how to give and take ideas, how to make mistakes and fix them, how to build a design
based on someone’s idea, how to script, how to model, how to resolve problems when
they arise, how to use resources to guide building, how to make games inside of games,
how to make films and upload to YouTube, and how to narrow the focus of a film.
During this learning, the boys are also learning about one another: siblings, where they
live, currency, geography, food, politics, and all things Minecraft. My son is adamant that
this playing is not learning.
It's not like school, he tells me repeatedly. Sadly, I think he's right.
this is huge Mary Ann... thank you
big big part of be you book
in explanation of a quiet revolution
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