"Workers, for their part, have to be strategic and aim for the jobs least likely to be overtaken by robots or other machines. They have to commit to a lifetime of practicing and updating their skills by, for example, taking extra courses online and in classrooms. Lifetime learning and continued training and retraining are key."
Curious: A rigorous curiosity underpins the most fruitful work scholars do.
Dynamic
a series of iterative experiments.
a resolution to the inquiry
Derivative
attentive and alive, responsive
Critical: We can’t be afraid to critique our own circumstances, our own context.
Cormier suggests rhizomatic education — constructing and negotiating community knowledge through a series of interdependent nodes — as a pedagogical solution within quickly changing fields of information. In other words, by connecting to each other, no matter our expertise or station, knowledge grows.
We may provide the content, but this is no different today than scattering LEGOs on a table: what happens next is not up to us
from a traditional model of schooling to one more compatible with the realities of the digital landscape. Experimentation, inquiry, and play are both the research tools we must use to create online and hybrid classrooms, and also the methodologies best employed within those classrooms.
Testing and canonical content are less vital to the new media landscape than interactivity, play, and relevant application.
that students “show up,” be curious, collaborate, and contribute.
The digital has reminded us that learning happens unexpectedly, and so should our approach to learning be unexpectant. We must return play to education, to pedagogy, and to all scholarly practice.
Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: This book was produced by graduate students in a course with Cathy N. Davidson. The text of the work is itself rigorous, but what we find most intensely rigorous is the way the reader is brought into the book’s ongoing creation through simultaneous publishing on communal platforms like Rap Genius, HASTAC, GitHub, and Google Docs.
Does the technology overshadow, mask, or otherwise draw the focus away from important learning?Does the technology add value so that students can do their work in better or different ways?Are digital technologies utilized by students in both appropriate and empowering ways?
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