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Cris Crissman

Painting Myself Out of the Picture | Virtually Foolproof - 2 views

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independence dependence assessment passion

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  • Cris Crissman on 27 Jan 14
     
    Week Two's question of enforcing independence leads me to revisit an old post about semester-long collaborative projects for grad students.
Helen Crump

Rhizomatic learning: chaos, provocation and conflation #rhizo14 | Learningcreep - 2 views

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  • being a lifelong learner is something you just have to take on personally;
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Jan 14
       
      Part of me disagrees vwehemently with this and part not so much. The disagree part says that lifelong learner is baked into the DNA. You don't have to take in 'on' because it is already 'in'. Another part of me says that we can devise algorithms for pursuing our own curiosity, we can take that task on personally.
  • Chaos abounds
    • Helen Crump
      Helen Crump on 28 Jan 14
       
      messified - now that's a good word.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Feb 14
       
      Messy is the space between order and chaos. It is the interval where stuff gets done, usually where friction and energy and all things physical happen.
  • independence isn’t the only stance to learning that they need – what about dependence and interdependence?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Jan 14
       
      enforced dependence, interdependence, and independence really puts the wind in my sails, but I am pretty sure I am not a good enough sailor to pull out all the sails. Add sail! That really shivers me timbers.
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  • “taking responsibility” doesn’t come naturally
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Jan 14
       
      Perhaps it is repressed in traditional formal learning situations or it just doesn't make good, strategic sense to most learners where they are situated.
  • To permit “responsibility” and enable learners to assert their independence, it seems to me (and to a few others) that schools, or any formal learning context, would do well to not only encourage learners to pursue their passion, but to honour their unique experiences and to give them voice.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Jan 14
       
      I might also add that we invite as well. Permission may be necessary as a pump primer but invitation is the force that drives the water up and out. If you think of it in terms of artesian wells then you have to admit that for most of us you have to drill down for the water. The springs are fewer and may often only be a little weep of water that has to be dammed up a bit in order to drink from it.
  • “we conflate learning and schooling”
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Jan 14
       
      And its specific corollary: we conflate learning with teaching.
  • it’s not about seeing learning more clearly
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Jan 14
       
      I tried to talk about this when I referenced James Scott's binary of legible/illegible. Like the quants on Wall Street and in the Department of Education, clarification entails filtering out the fines of complexity. Sometimes this is good--penicillin, for example. But it can lead to unintended consequences--a wider resistance to all antibiotics. Seeing more clearly often has to come from sitting in the vortex and waiting. The water might clear of its own accord.
  • Terry Elliott on 28 Jan 14
     
    "being a lifelong learner is something you just have to take on personally"
  • Helen Crump on 28 Jan 14
     
    "being a lifelong learner is something you just have to take on personally"
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