Rhizomes are aggressive, chaotic and resilient.
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STANDARD IV
Reading – A few lines of poetry or prose, at
the choice of the inspector.
Writing – A sentence slowly dictated once,
by a few words at a time, from a reading
book, such as is used in the first class of
the school.
Arithmetic – Compound rules (common
weights and measures).
Report of the Federal Security Agency: Office of Education 1876, p CLXII
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How do I plan for this?
Part 2 – What are we schooling?How much of our choice of curriculum is controlled by the technology available?
• Technology: Humans
• Curriculum: Mentor• We learn: One person’s
way of things• Dave Truss – “the
projects that are really cool are the ones where they are connecting with mentors”
Mentor learning
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"Carlo Crivelli 007" by Carlo Crivelli (circa 1435–circa 1495) -Via The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carlo_Crivelli_007.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Carlo_Crivelli_007.jpg
University of
Toulouse students
scrutinize the
bosom of nature
“Those who wish to scrutinize the
bosom of nature to the inmost can
hear [at the University of Toulouse]
the books of Aristotle which were
forbidden at Paris” 1229ADUniversity of Tolouse Flyer, 1229 (Translated by Lynn Thorndike)
Technology: Text
Communication: One to many
Curriculum: absent authorWe learn: The thoughts one person had once
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Expert Learning
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Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi teaches
Switzerland to read
1798AD
I believe it is not possible for common popular
instruction to advance a step, so long as formulas of
instruction are not found which make the teacher…
merely the mechanical tool of a methodJohann Heinrich Pestalozzi – “How Gertrude Teaches Her Children, p. 41,
1801.
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hildren
I assert definitely, that a school-book is only good
when an uninstructed schoolmaster can use it at
need, [almost as well as an instructed and talented
one] Ibid.
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Technology: print
Communication: Publisher to many
Curriculum:
district/publisher/teacherWe learn: A group of people’s thoughts on what you should know
Maze Learning
Technology: web
Communication: many to many
Gigantic scale
Curriculum: CommunityWhat a community knows
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Community
Rhizomes are aggressive, chaotic and resilient.
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Learning analytics1. Macro and micro level information
2. Interventions in time
3. Affects the learning design
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