Experiments in Mass Collaboration | Collaboration | HYBRID PEDAGOGY - 0 views
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In place of the banking model, Freire envisions education that is communal and consciousness raising; he calls it “problem-posing.”
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assyntk on 09 Jan 13What would it feel like to be educated that way? I was brought up in a banking model. Would have I been happier and my potential more fulfilled if "problem-posing" was my daily staple at school? Remember feeling frustrated at the end of my undergraduate degree as I felt my own learning was restrictive. I was afraid to breach the boundaries of the learning I have been brought up with - I knew I would be able to achieve the required grades that way. But it did not feel like real thinking and exploration, the real risk-taking that it should be. I stuck with what I knew and what was safe. There was no guide to take me through the riskier path. The outcome of which was too unpredictable when the stakes were so high. Maybe this is the fear that our Honours students feel - such high stakes at a stage they should be exploring the subject and taking real risks. How dare we impose innovating learning on them!
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Mass collaboration disrupts organizational structures imposed from the outside and encourages students to build new channels of communication and new habits of analysis.
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Students have had their private and disruptive comm channels for years - take your spontaneous study group idea. Now they self-organise of fb and elswhere (seen a study at Edi Uni in Scotland where massive amounts of such collab was discovered to be going on independent of the pedagogy in the classroom). The question is - would our attempts at organising and facilitating this kind of learning not be seen as a form of invasion of student's privacy? They may feel refreshingly subversive (just like the edupunkers do) - will the motivation vanish if we join the party? Do we need to get involved beyond showcasing the tools and techniques and making sure that they stay safe online?
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