DISQUS

juanlanteri · 1 year ago

Hi Robin!

I know your passion, and I know how hard is to present something really important in front of many relevant people, and with a very limited time.

I don't only think that you did well at the stage, but this post is truly Robin Good at his pure essence: you're been honest, upfront and constructive.

Cheers Robin :-)

Sepp_Hasslberger · 1 year ago

I love your way of looking at education. It's learning, not teaching, that is the important thing to keep in mind. We should be (and many of us are) learning all our lives long. The world is changing so fast that things learned 50 or even 30 years ago have limited use today. It's life-long learning and keeping up with increasingly fast changes in society that will allow us to participate in the future.

There is no way school can do that for us. We've got to learn to study and understand by ourselves and - as you say - with the help of our peers.

Drazend2 · 1 year ago

I agree. Life-long learning (which is a must given the current speed of change in everything) means that you have to love what you do or else you will hate waking up every day. :)

jaycross · 11 months ago

Deschooling Society. Free. Ivan would be proud.

buthaina · 11 months ago

Thank, thank you, thank you, Robin for sharing your video presentation. It's just what I needed for a workshop that I'll run in Feb. Hope you don't mind me using it.

All the best!

RobinGood · 11 months ago

Absolutely! Go ahead and use it as much as you want to Buthaina.


:-)

The Virtual Meeting Coach · 11 months ago

You give me hope, Robin, the same way that Barak Obama does. And hope is the most important gift. It's clear we share the same lover: Love of Education.

Of course, education must be for BEING, not just for KNOWING. And you embody that message. It's not just in the words you use, it's in the sound of your voice. Also, pulling your friends into this talk - especially your smart friends like Jay - demonstrates exactly what you're saying. Learning is about BEING together around the things that generate our passion.

I truly appreciate the way you SHOWED the audience what you want them to be able to DO themselves. Yes, you talked a lot about your passion... and you also invited Jay and George and Temmu onto the stage with you, even though they weren't literally there with you... Wow! This is a stunning demonstration of a highly effective way to offer "visual aids" that back up solo speakers on big stages. You SHOWED us your personal learning environment, literally. You created your own "panel" discussion.

How do we really learn? By sitting down? No... Not even by sitting passively all the way through this terrific video. I'm learning right this moment by commenting on this video as I listen. Duh! By scrolling back and forth between this comment box and the video content.

I've been learning by "connecting" this way with the sources of my learning since I wrote my first margin notes in a library book, trying to articulate the thoughts spurred by the author's words as if the author was live and present with me.

I'm not sure what happened at the end of this talk. You spewed out a list of principles very quickly... and I lost you and lost the passion of your speech. What were you trying to do there? Leave the audience with a "list" of things they could memorize so they could replicate your passion? Isn't that exactly what we don't need from you? Isn't that what you reminded us of at the start of the talk... that that kind of "transfer" of "information" doesn't work? I'm confused about how you ended...

You give me reason to live, you give me reason to live, you give me reason...

RobinGood · 11 months ago

Vmcoach,
I did that because Loic, the organizer was approaching me and telling me my
time was up, while I had plenty yet to share. You can see in the following
video what I would have said as well as in another article that really bits
the what should have been the core of this presentation:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/education-and-lea...
my video there, as captured by Erno, who stopped me right after the
stage presentation.

I totally agree that the way I ended my presentation was not at all what I
wanted and should have been able to communicate.

The Virtual Meeting Coach · 11 months ago

Fabulous! I'll take time and follow this link. Please don't take my last comments as any criticism, Robin. Just got lost and thought I'd tell you that along with what else I learned listening. You have so MUCH to share and I'm always wanting to listen...