John seely Brown knows how to move the conversation forward HERE http://bit.ly/ansAQ6 This is an absolutely tremendous lecture by a man I know and whose thought i have followed yet here he goes off in very new and stimulating ways about education and learning and digital media etc etc How do we afford curiosity in our students? Because basically in a world of constant flux, if you are not curious, you are screwed. Terra how many people think you tube is just silly videos? Utube of course is filled with lectures like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4FPH-Oo1iM no broadband no lecture of course if people are not curious they will not browse you tube I will be 99 to 100 percent of people here are quite curious..... I have always been..... is it an innate or acquired trait? ============================================================= The COOK Report on Internet Protocol, (PSTN) 609 882-2572 (Skype-in) 609 643-4067 Back Issues: http://www.cookreport.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=37&I... Cook's Collaborative Edge Blog http://gordoncook.net/wp/ Subscription info: http://www.cookreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&It... ============================================================= On Feb 28, 2011, at 2:32 AM, Kevin Carson wrote:
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Solid State, and Liquid Nets via Andrew B. Watt's Blog by Andrew on 2/27/11 First watch this talk,
And then this one.
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
Back? Feel like you wasted forty minutes of your life? OK, I’m sorry. Tell you what… you don’t need to read this entry of my blog. Then you won’t have wasted an hour. That should save you some time.
But if you’re planning on sticking around, know that this is some of the problem I’m wrestling with. It may, in fact, be the problem that teachers all around the world are wrestling with. To sum it up as clearly as I can:
How do we take solid-state schools — that is, institutions that are designed to do one thing according to a model with relatively little variability — and graft onto them these liquid networks, which are flexible, innovating, and constantly learning new skills and trading new ideas?
I had dinner with a friend of mine last night, and we kept talking around the question. He’s a floral designer, an artist, an actor, a writer, a playwright, a director, and a sculptor, and he’s getting to be nationally known. So when he tells me that (for him) it was all about developing fluency with a set of tools, I tend to believe him. When I asked him to identify his four most important tools, he spoke of his knife, the bowls and urns and vases that contain his work, the flowers themselves, and glue. He said, “without wire, I’d need glue. With wire, I’d still need glue.”
I know that working with cord and twine and rope, I gain fluency by learning new knots. The more knots I know, the more interesting and unusual things I do. Same with artists’ pens and paper — the more kinds I work with, the better I do as an artist.
All through this vacation which ends tomorrow, I’ve been wondering about how to help my students develop their own liquid networks — systems of self-support and learning environments that help them find the information they want, instead of forcing specific information at them. I think it’s one of the major challenges of our time, and I wish I knew how to move the conversation forward.
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