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Re: Learning Zeitgeist: The Future of Education is Just-in-Time, Multidisciplinary, Experimental, Emergent

overlobe — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:58:56 -0000

Good post, but I'd like to make a few points about and around it:

1. I think the 3-stage breakdown of learning (eg experiential, schooled, a return to experiential) is a little simplistic. Sure, it works as a rhetorical argument, but one thing school teaches us that we don't get beforehand is how to leverage formalized knowledge networks. This ability strikes me as important for any parasitic learner etc

2. Kudos to Edward T. Hall is due for the mono/poly-chronic stuff.. His work (eg Beyond Culture, 1976) while not directed at education, really helped people *understand* other people, and their practices.. which is where a lot of the thinking Teemu is bringing to this argument is coming from (practice turn wrt education)

Re: Learning Zeitgeist: The Future of Education is Just-in-Time, Multidisciplinary, Experimental, Emergent

D. Lamontagne — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:20:12 -0000

Papert and Illitch have their toughts synthetizes in three sentences.

Why not you ? Try, just for fun.

Re: Learning Zeitgeist: The Future of Education is Just-in-Time, Multidisciplinary, Experimental, Emergent

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Re: Learning Zeitgeist: The Future of Education is Just-in-Time, Multidisciplinary, Experimental, Emergent

Sepp — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:12:20 -0000

I like Teemu's take on this.

Education should really be free in the sense of being flexible and adapted to the young person's interests and needs. We can probably learn things in a fraction of the time it takes in school, if we have a strong interest to know.

So rather than cramming minds full of "facts", why not give them the basic tools such as writing, reading, maths and computer literacy, and let them go from there?

Oh, I forget, that doesn't make good little slaves ready for the drudgery of the Monday to Friday 9-5 routine. But then - it would make much smarter, if somewhat unruly, people.

Here's to serendipic and just-in-time learning.

Re: Learning Zeitgeist: The Future of Education is Just-in-Time, Multidisciplinary, Experimental, Emergent

davidorban — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:35:25 -0000

I very, very much agree with your post here. Education is key to our future, and innovation in education is not only, even not mostly about technology. It is about a changing mentality and active involvement. Students and teachers alike must learn this! :)