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Christina Cantrill

Wikirriculum: Curriculum in the Digital Age | DMLcentral - 1 views

  • There are multiple examples globally of this kind of experimental curriculum design, some of which are already making the transition from ideas stage to design. The New Basics in Australia was an early example. Q2L in New York is a current program. In the UK, Enquiring Minds, Learning Futures, and Young People's Geographies are all illustrative of a centrifugal trend to allow alternative knowledges into the curriculum and to switch those networks together with school. Over time, these experimental designs may become blueprints for more mainstream curriculum design interventions.
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    Checking this out too, not sure of exact connection yet.
Christina Cantrill

Couch Surfing the World : The New Yorker - 0 views

  • In other words, CouchSurfing is a largely rhizomatous affiliation of strangers intersecting with one another not only out of self-interest but for the good of all. How can we explain this pervasive and—some would say—unexpected coöperation?
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    In other words, CouchSurfing is a largely rhizomatous affiliation of strangers intersecting with one another not only out of self-interest but for the good of all. How can we explain this pervasive and-some would say-unexpected coöperation?
Christina Cantrill

Community as Curriculum - vol 2. The Guild/Distributed Continuum » Dave's Edu... - 0 views

  • Knowledge is a rhizome, a snapshot of interconnected ties in constant flux that is evaluated by its success in context.
  • rhizomatic learning distributes the channels of knowing outside traditional hierarchical models and into the social realm, allowing for help in sifting through the flow of information and knowledge. These “social learning practices are allowing for a more discursive rhizomatic approach to knowledge discovery” (Cormier, 2008, p. 3).
  • They especially need a learning community
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  • knowledge production becomes a participatory process based in communities, with members trying to solve problems, tap into existing trends or simply exploring by helping someone else.
  • expertise and experience are still critical to the success of any community
  • A learning community is a specialized version that inverts the normal pattern of responsibility from being responsible to oneself to being responsible for the learning of the people with whom one is involved
  • “Learning together depends on the quality of relationships of trust and mutual engagement that members develop with each other, a productive management of community boundaries, and the ability of some to take leadership and to play various roles in moving the inquiry forward” (Wenger, White, & Smith, 2009, p. 8).
  • What the leaders of these guild style communities need to teach people, then, has little to do with content and more to do with actually using communities to learn.
  • Being able to participate in live knowledge building on a daily basis with a group of peers, on the other hand, is a privilege of the so-called digital age.
  • Edtechtalk As a Model for Community Curriculum—A Piece of the Puzzle
Christina Cantrill

Heutagogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    In education, heutagogy, a concept coined by Stewart Hase of Southern Cross University and Chris Kenyon in Australia, is the study of self-determined learning. The notion is an expansion and reinterpretation of andragogy, and it is possible to mistake it for the same.
Christina Cantrill

Rhizome - 0 views

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    Where I am now collecting rhizomes about rhizomes.
Christina Cantrill

A Thousand Plateaus (PDF) - 2 views

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    Let us summarize the principal characteristics of a rhizome: unlike trees or their roots, the rhizome connects any point to any other point, and its traits are not necessarily linked to traits of the same nature; it brings into play very different regimes of signs, and even nonsign states. The rhizome is reducible neither to the One nor the multiple. It is not the One that becomes Two or even directly three, four, five, etc. It is not a multiple derived from the One, or to which One is added (n + 1). It is composed not of units but of dimensions, or rather directions in motion. It has neither beginning nor end, but always a middle (milieu) from which it grows and which it overspills. It constitutes linear multiplicities with n dimensions having neither subject nor object, which can be laid out on a plane of consistency, and from which the One is always subtracted (n - 1). When a multiplicity of this kind changes dimension, it necessarily changes in nature as well, undergoes a metamorphosis. Unlike a structure, which is defined by a set of points and positions, with binary relations between the points and blunivocal relationships between the positions, the rhizome is made only of lines: lines of segmentarity and stratification as its dimensions, and the line of flight or deterritorialization as the maximum dimension after which the multiplicity undergoes metamorphosis, changes in nature. These lines, or lineaments, should not be confused with lineages of the arborescent type, which are merely localizable linkages between points and positions. Unlike the tree, the rhizome is not the object of reproduction: neither external reproduction as image-tree nor internal reproduction as tree-structure. The rhizome is an antigenealogy. It is a short-term memory, or antimemory. The rhizome operates by variation, expansion, conquest, capture, offshoots. Unlike the graphic arts, drawing, or photography, unlike tracings, the rhizome pertains to a map that must be produced, construc
Christina Cantrill

COOLCast - w/ Dave Cormier on Rhizomatic Learning | EdTechTalk - 2 views

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    random notes: Dave goes in to a description here of the Nomad as being the way of talking about the learner and what the learner is doing. The Nomad as a goal, what we want from education -- independence, responsibility and decision-making within the process. The learner makes the decisions, follows the rhizomes. Metaphor as a lens Violence in classroom ... (need to find out more about the class the Dave is trying to actively teach this way) Talk about rhizome as community ... EdTechTalk as an example ... Garden as structure -- compares of Appreciative Inquiry (cool! :) ... not content just the structure Frame -- syllabus as opposed to curriculum (need to finish ...)
Christina Cantrill

Teachers in Nomadic Spaces (book) - 0 views

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    random notes: Chapter 1, Curriculum and Representation ... here are some notes, particularly talking about Deleuze's philosophy up against Marx, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Poststructuralism, and Systems Thinking. Vis-a-vis Marx: Surplus value could be enslaved through consumption rather than just exploited through production as in Marx. ... Human destiny itself is "recast" ... tools are necessary to resist subjugation ... the way to resist is to become a producer rather than a consumer (35) Non-binary models ... differentiation -- singularities -- becomings or formations ... new multiplicities (also see Massumi 1992) or (patriarchy) vs. and (opens an escape route/a away to get away from exclusionary logic) ... includes individual struggles ... warns that all struggles involve the danger of becoming hegemonies themselves ... new thought born of violence in thought -- therefore violent in the molecularized outside a state apparatus ... (appearance of "the state" here ... follow-up on this) Vis-a-vis Feminism (support but also discord) * woman-becoming * micro vs macro ("molar politics" ... minority demands for self identity) pg. 41 teacher must carry resistance into the microscope of difference and reconstitution ... into caring for oneself ... this makes change at grassroots conceivable (See also Swamihathan) Vis-a-vis Psychoanalysis Deleuze rejects the "poor technicians of desire" who make it about structure and lack ... Instead desire is recast as primary, positive, productive -- producing the real, creating connections, relations, alignments ... analyze and actively engage in critical experiementation to make new connections Vis-a-vis Poststructuralists Deleuze talks about force rather than power (Contrast this to Foucault who talks about the history has the form of war thar than language ... relations of power rather than relations of meaning) ,,, talks about relation to Cezanne -- moving to for
Christina Cantrill

Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum » Dave's Educational Blog - 1 views

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    (Same as published in Innovate?)
Christina Cantrill

Week 09: Dave Cormier ~ #change11 - 0 views

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    Connected to a week of tweets and blogs to follow. Also look for George Siemens posts in dialogue with Dave.
Christina Cantrill

Wikirriculum: The Promises and Politics of an Open Source Curriculum | DMLcentral - 1 views

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    Checking this out too.
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