Just thought I would share this, it's an actual book but I found it on Diigo for one of my other classes and it's really interesting information on emotional literacy.
But I am saying my kids don’t (won’t) need teachers any more to get them to pass the test.
If nothing else, the new iPhone’s integration of Siri is a clear indicator of how far technology has come in terms of understanding semantic cues and interactions.
If it’s all about test scores and “student acheivement” measured by test scores, immersing kids into Knewton-type environments is by far the easiest, cheapest, path of least resistance for the system’s current definition of “learning.”
This is why we should all be feeling an acute urgency right now to take back the definition of what “learning” really is in a world filled with content and teachers and personalization.
Knewton doesn’t develop learners. It develops knowers.
Memory is the representation of the things that we ‘know’ as a culture
The worker was the original goal of the public education system.
The worker needs to remember things without understanding them.
Learning for a worker is about compliance.
Our education system currently does a very good job of creating workers.
The soldier
They are the defenders of memory.
They are the ones who establish what things we currently know that the worker should remember, and then establish the system by which we will measure that knowing.
They decide which parts of the past will be valued
soldiers really can decide what they want to have valued.
Soldiers defend the status quo
The nomad is trying to do what I call ‘learning’.
Learning for the nomad is the point where the steps in a process go away.
It is what Wynton Marsalis calls ‘being the thing itself’
In order to create an educational system that allows for nomads we can’t measure for a prescribed outcome.
Rhizomatic learning
It is designed for a world where there aren’t ‘things people should know’ but rather ‘new connections to be made’.
If we want a society of innovators, of creatives, we can’t think of success as an act of compliance