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We talk about what teaching and learning ought to look like, without ever really being clear about what we want an education to do. Pictures have different purposes. Their intent may be to record an event, evoke an emotion, preserve a memory, provide documentation, honor an individual, or just please the eye. A great work of art might do all of those things, but it is unrealistic to expect all art to accomplish all of them. Knowing more about the subject of the work, the mind of the artists, the goals of the person who commissioned the work, and cultural setting in which the work was produced my help us understand more about how to view a work of art. So what exactly is it that we are looking for in public education? Do we value symmetry over emphasis? Are we looking for accuracy or imagination? Should education inspire or indoctrinate? Do we want an education that gives us answers or asks us questions? There are a lot of people critiquing the “art” of educating our children. Is the picture of public education all wrong? Or is it that we don’t always know how to look, or where to stand, or what to look for once we’ve got to where we need to be? I don’t know the answers, but it seems to me that the questions are worth asking.

variety of technical, cognitive, social and emotional skills which users need in order to function effectively in a digital environment.

Graphic literacy, Navigation, Context, Skepticism, Focus, Ethical Behavior

Graphic literacy – thinking visually

The Sharable Content Object Reference Model defines a specific way of constructing Learning Management Systems and training content so that they work well with other SCORM conformant systems. 

Packaging content determines how a piece of content should be delivered in a physical sense.

every piece of information required by the LMS to import and launch content without human intervention

The key to this transformation is not to standardize education but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of the each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions (238). The curriculum should be personalized. Learning happens in the  minds and souls of individuals–not in the databases of multiple-choice tests (248).

Sir Ken lays out the case for personalizing our kids’ educations in the context of transforming (not reforming) schools:

Sir Ken Robinson’s new book “The Element”

Framework I’d like you to consider- author of Flow: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi- that is where we are trying to get our kids: they are motivated, excited, engaged- he talks about task complexity and skill level, managing those- when you balance those, you get kids into flow