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If Thou Beest a Moon Calf…More Stories from My Dark Night of the #CCourse Soul | RhetCompNow - 0 views

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  • That’s what we want to do. Well…OK, that’s what I in my omniscient infinitude want to do. This is the problem of the connected classroom how can one give up the hiearchy, trusting that the course of things will be taken up in manifold ways and products?
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      Self deprecating about your role in the classroom and also reflecting on the need to give up the hierarchy. Can you turn the hierarchy on its head regularly and routinely? 
  • And therein lay the rub: in response to the fear and confusion I sensed in my students I became Uncle “Hub Central”. Understanding how to summarize became an external act outside their own minds consisting of checklists, algorithms, and templates designed to connect the dots that I so faithlessly put on the page. But in the end I believe that summing up needs to be an internal algorithm that rises up as a personal exigency, a massing together of sets of neuronal allies, firing and wiring like a mosh pit of nodal “hands” holding up the crowd surfing madman named Summary.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      Here you are tough on yourself again while the rock and the hard place remain exactly where you found them. In my view, Uncle Hub Central responded with support strategies (I'm shocked to discover your use of the word scaffold, Terry. :) How might you throw out the bathwater of hierarchy while tucking the baby of your support strategies under your arm? If the hierarchy disappeared, how might you leverage your support skill and instinct in a more networked, dynamic way?
  • Meaning making and perhaps internal connecting? A consummation devoutly to be wished.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      How might you insist on the meaning making and internal connecting? Above you showed how you insist on summary. 
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  • Best practice/worst practice. The problem with this variant of the post hoc fallacy is that we don’t really know if the strategies all arose as a ‘one off’ case, a sample of one, or as a truly generalizeable theory of action. Heraclitus (and his kissing cousin, Chaos Theory) argues that we really can’t step twice in the same river. In other words, initial conditions are always different from case to case in the dreaded ‘real world’. Those initial conditions almost always lead one astray from the desired results. Post hoc thinking is almost always wrong.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      The best practice/worst practice piece has tremendous power. It is at the core of your reflection and might be at the core of reform. Is this the theme I think it is? 
  • Perhaps I will discover the best case scenario for each of my classes. Perhaps not. Perhaps the success will come in the constant trumpeting of both “baby step” successes as well as “falling and hitting our heads on the coffee table, let’s go to the emergency room” failures. I just need to move my primary default mode from hub to node. They are more responsible for their own learning than I am. I share a duty to them, but the process is messy. We are all moon calves when it comes to learning. Moon calves.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      Your conclusion reads like a beginning to me. How is the hub kidding himself about his role and his impact? How is the node superior as a teacher and learner? 
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