If we are going to make meaningful interventions here, we have to go well beyond the myth of the digital native, which tends to flatten diversity and mask inequality. We need to engage more closely with the very different ways that young people encounter new media in the contexts of lives that are defined around different kinds of expectations and norms, different resources and constraints, from those encountered by youth raised under more privileged circumstances.
“boy culture,” the process of peer-based masculine socialization, used to take place outside of the home and was structured around boys escaping the control and supervision of their mothers
I am reading Henry Jenkins, et al's latest book, Participatory Culture. Everything I see here fits what I have read so far. And also asks the question: how do we get youth to participate in this particular culture--the one that moves them through poverty and into careers.
I will have to make this one of the core questions as I read Participatory Culture.
"What Will it Take to Assure that all Youth Born or Living in High Poverty are Starting Jobs and Careers by Age 25?"
the "c" in cMOOC stands for 'connectivism', a learning philosophy that argues that connection is the secret sauce the element in the play that makes learning inevitable. Part of that connection is exchange (what I call reciprocation) and relationship (the fruit of reciprocation).
Last night the hangout focused on a platform called Youth Voices, where youth from around the country are connecting and sharing ideas and reflections.
I feel badly that I have not made a better attempt to connect/facilitate between others. That's why I tried to get Daniel and Simon together in a Hangout.
encourage him to use concept mapping tools like Kumu
I found one under the topic of "How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care We Need?"
This has always been an issue in education--where is the best leverage for improving learning? where the best place to use any resource to get the most value? Is this too narrow a way of looking at the problem? too bottom line? Seems to value "cost" efficiency over all other values?
So...do we need to be putting our magic into tutors/mentors and teachers or into learner/employees?
This process could engage youth in thousands of locations, focusing on many complex problems, not just health care or poverty.
I have always been for the idea that learners need to be more responsible for their own learning. They should begin to be responsible for the problems they generate in their own lives and the ones they see generated around them. It is the distribution of these problems and the relative inequity of this distribution that is most troubling. Those who have the greatest opportunity to face the most difficulty problems are also those who are given the least resources to deal with them. How fair is it to ask children to deal with the large issues of safety, health care, and poverty around them?
"Field" is a construct, a word that gives us fake leverage. If we call it one thing so that we can manipulate it, the handle on a skillet, the hook for hanging a coat up, It is not one thing. It is a desperate many things that live within one thing. It is fox, not the hedgehog.
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I suppose at the subatomic level there is more empty than not. At the neuronal level, all of the neurons are firing and wiring and firing and wiring. At a farmer's level, the ground level, he knows that there is no container to be empty. There is only the turning of Gaia on a tilted axis and the flow of root and branch, leaf and rhizome in a sweet slow dance, a timelapsing dervish.
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the aftermath: a definition
aftermath
(ˈɑːftəmaːθ, æ-)
Also aftermowth;
[after- 6 + math mowing.]
1.1 Second or later mowing; the crop of grass which springs up after the mowing in early summer. Also attrib. (See also aftergrass, aftercrop.)
1523 Fitzherbert Surveying 2 Yet hath the lorde the Edysshe and the aftermathe hym selfe for his owne catell. 1601 Holland Pliny (1634) I. 506 The grasse will be so high growne, that a man may cut it down and haue a plentiful after-math for hay. 1631 G. Markham Way to Wealth iii. ii. vi. (1668) 149 Eddish, or After-math-cheese. 1673 Marvell Rehears. Transp. ii. Wks. II. 251 The after-math seldom or neuer equals the first herbage. 1834 Southey Doctor cli. (1862) 391 No aftermath has the fragrance and the sweetness of the first crop. 1856 Patmore Angel in House (1866) ii. iv. iv, Among the bloomless aftermath. 1860 Farmer's Mag. LII. 242/1 Thus treated I would calculate on a good after⁓math, to be either sold or used in the yards.
2.2 fig. Esp. a state or condition left by a (usu. unpleasant) event, or some further occurrence arising from it.
a 1658 Cleveland To Mr. T. C. 22 Rash Lover speak what Pleasure hath Thy Spring in such an Aftermath! 1851 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marg. II. 13 The aftermath of the great rebellion. 1878 Masque of Poets 135, I am one that hath Lived long and gathered in Life's aftermath. 1946 W. S. Churchill Victory 5 The life and strength of Britain‥will be tested to the full, not only in the war but in the aftermath of war. 1958 M. L. King Stride toward Freedom vi. 102 The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 41, I remember, too, its aftermath-the triste, enervated feeling which the cold kiss of the dew spreads through one's whole body. 1979 A. Storr Art of Psychotherapy x. 107
Aftermath
BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
When the summer fields are mown,
When the birds are fledged and flown,
And the dry leaves strew the path;
With the falling of the snow,
With the cawing of the crow,
Once again the fields we mow
And gather in the aftermath.
Not the sweet, new grass with flowers
Is this harvesting of ours;
Not the upland clover bloom;
But the rowen mixed with weeds,
Tangled tufts from marsh and meads,
Where the poppy drops its seeds
In the silence and the gloom.
Are we developing:
"a practice that involves a break with the familiar, the routine ways of seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding things so that the organism may become receptive to the potential forms of a nonaggressive, non-exploitative world." ?
answering these questions:
What are the rules of the game?
What are the actions (or verbs) you are allowed to take in the game?
Is there a “win” state? If so, how do you achieve it?
You can start with a drawing, create a flip book, and move to video. You can also take household items and turn them into playing pieces, transforming your kitchen table (or house!) into a game board!
love to see how you level up or progress through your game. What actions can you take to move forward?
Don’t forget
invite you to think about how you can also use your new game design skills to translate, analyze and change a complex issue.
hope that you will be inspired to explore a new medium, and create new understanding about what it means to analyze (and change!) a system.
my soul needed to be fed a feeling of equality between myself and the people whose culture I was embracing. I didn’t want to be an observer, I wanted to be one of them. And that, to me, was the most healing of all.
"We might cool down the conversation with explicit norms, clarifying our objectives and assumptions,offer facilitation and other support in an attempt to achieve real dialogue. Over time the constraints could be loosened."
I am always an outsider, by termperament and by design. Iconoclast is the word I use to describe myself. I actually get a bit sick when I feel I am on the IN. I love the OUT. And I don't need a fucking box cutter to get out. Something goofy, hilarious, and irritating about the video. A classic out-y as far as I can tell. Not so much a prophet as someone who says, "Fuck you. Now what are you going to do about it." I live in a part of Kentucky where that attitude has been raised to an art form. It's called cutting off your nose to spite your face. I am a practitioner.
Rumi:
You are granite.
I am an empty wineglass.
My question is this: who are you and who is the community. And more...maybe you are the falling glass or the rising granite. Confusing and confabulatory, no doubt.
And more. More than a man, a h-u-m-a-n. And an entangled body way more tangled than just your communities. And weaving from past to future through memes and genes. A regular Gordian Knot.
So I suppose I could say that the varied and fluctuating communities in and around rhizo14 have varied and fluctuating curricula.
Well...I am happy in my ignorance as to what this signifies much less means. For the month of February I have been living pretty damned close to the bone, flaying and being flayed. Hard, sharp edges to my life can't even be bothered to say, fuck this shit, I got better thought to thunk.
Keith Hamon has written a great (IMHO) post about complexity ethics.
Oxymorons point to the paradox of language, the Babel-ical inadequacy of words. How helpful are they except to make us sit bold upright and pay heed to how entangled and embodied our knowing (and not knowing) are.
Of course, in all humility, I am being totally derivative in this annotated response. Nothing original although I am repeatedly striking my flint to your rock.
There are moments when I am moved to formal academic research.
I weary of the fond hope of reciprocation. In myself and in others. Mostly in others. I am unashamed to admit I need it. I am astonished that it is so little given online. So I give it elsewhere and, as is said in labour circles, I withdraw my goodwill.
I wonder how these co-exist - in a warm soup of happiness?
One of my desires as a teacher and learner is to obscure the artificial boundaries that exist between formal and informal learning, 'school' and 'real life'. Such distinctions between digital connection and analog, 'face to face' connections should also be blurred.
I think one way to do this blurring is to observe and share more of your own life. I am beginning a series of posts called "Petty Joys" that chronicle the 'small beer' of my life, stuff I love that doesn't rise to the level of epiphany. I am blurring the lines so that the editor in my head doesn't send out a rejection letter. My first petty joy is the peanut butter stirrer. Watch for it.