Learning&Technology

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