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rhizomatic learning | Viplav Baxi's Meanderings - 1 views

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  • Uncertainty exists in all forms of education and learning. It is not mostly celebrated. In fact, it is suppressed.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      Yes, this is exactly the point James Scott makes when he creates the binary of legible/illegible where the suppression of uncertainty is the definition of legibility.
  • It is even systematically constrained in other (non-traditional) environments, even informal ones at most times.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      I think you are pointing to the embodied and cognitive biases that are part of being a human being?
  • Not all certainties may be “good” or “appropriate”.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      I am thinking here of Nicolas Taleb's ultimate uncertainty, the unknown unknown, the Black Swan. I think that most suppression of uncertainty arises from the futile attempt to quell Black Swans and their evolutionary disruption.
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  • democratizing uncertainty
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      Is democratizing uncertainty like trying to formalize the informal?
  • We shall also need to “prove” in many ways, that more “good” uncertainty in the system will impact social outcomes positively.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      Seems like predictability is worming its way into your discussion of uncertainty. Uncertainty is largely complex and unmanageable. Should we be focusing more on the processes and products that emerge from uncertainty? I don't think we can do a whole lot more than that, but I am certainly open to being informed more on this.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      Perhaps your last paragraph addresses obliquely what I asked above.
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Teaching in the Age of Uncertainty « Kevin's Meandering Mind - 2 views

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    Kevin uses chapter book Frindle, story of student's campaign to add new word to dictionary, to reflect on the uncertainty of the future and what his students will need to know and be able to do to be successful.
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Opening Up the Garden | Virtually Foolproof - 2 views

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  • Cris Crissman on 04 Feb 14
     
    So how many MOOCs can I address in one post? Going for my personal record ;-) My Week 3, Embracing Uncertainty post.
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Down the Rabbit Hole | Exploring Digital Culture - 0 views

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  • “the reader is invited to move among plateaux in any order.”
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      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      In the #clmooc I helped to facilitate last summer one of the principles that we reiterated in welcoming posts was that of invitation. Not just any invitation, but invitation anywhere and any time. The course/collaboration had no beginning in that all who came to it brought with them a history that powered them like an artesian well. The cMOOC has also had no end either. It still exists and is used and is bring those who are and were a part of it into other worlds like #rhizo14.
  • A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo.  (Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus.  P. 25)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      Sometimes my familiarity with the the fact of real rhizomes saps the metaphor's usefulness. I understand that D & G are talking about power relationships, but in a way that makes no sense at all when discussing 'whole things'. There are power relationships in biological beings, but all the parts are pulling toward the imperative of surviving. So...I have been working through the uncertainty of applying this vague theoretical scaffold into the learning space of the classroom. Now that is where the idea of being always in the middle makes sense, suspended across to learners as a bridge and at the same time walking across other's bridges.
  • forever in flux.
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  • Lines of Flight:  Deleuze and Nomadic Creativity,
  • Maureen Maher
  • Knowmadic thinking is “exposing metaspaces in between each, opening new opportunities for new blends of formal, informal, non-formal and serendipitous learning. As in the Invisible learning project, we focus on educating for personal knowledge creation that cannot be measured easily.”
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      As a practicing teacher working under the constraints and affordances that make modern pedagogy such an act of hypocrisy, I find that these generic observations are 'unhandy'. In fact, I get visceral with them. I get pissed off and feel a certain amount of 'how dare you'.
  • Rhizomatic Learning
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      This is what I asked about last week, too. What makes learning different from rhizomatic or deep or knowmadic learning. I think the modifiers (deep, rhizomatic, knowmadic) have a purpose. They allow us to filter learning differently very like having a variety of critical stances. It is, however, like the story of the blind men and the elephant. Which description is correct? All of them--in part.
  • “how do we bring this concept of embracing uncertainty into our classrooms?”
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      I tried to address this in my blog post this week: http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2014/02/01/hodie-quid-egisti-what-have-ye-done-a-rhizomagic-week-of-blooming-buzzing-confusion/ I don't think I used the word 'uncertainty' once in that post, but the tone is, I think, one of taking that leap.
  • the leap into the unknown is the learning process.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Feb 14
       
      It is unnatural to leap into the total darkness of the unknown. In fact I think that by definition it is impossible. Instead I think we leap into the partly known. My analogy is the Kentucky pioneer Daniel Boone. Some might say that he worked his way into virgin, unknown territory. I would say yes and no. He did blaze trails into places no Euro-American had ever been, but the territory itelf shared lots of known traits with where he had already been. For example, water flows downhill to larger streams. The sun rises in the east. And the thousand other 'knowns' that come from a lifetime of living close to ground. And, of course, he really did blaze the trails he made by walking. He emblazened trees with marks for others to follow. Now that must've been an ego trip and a half! The other half of the analogy is that we too have general knowledge that we take with us into the knowmadic life and the rhizomatic wilderness of learning. We have theoretical knowledge. I would include the whole baggage of ed school in that. But we have to dump most of that when we move into the partly known territory of deep, rhizomatic knowmadicism. You need to travel light when you are blazing the trail. You need the practical stuff in your backpack. All week and every week I will be bringing back news as I light out into the territories. I expect to get well and truly turned around on occasion, but I don't plan on backtracking much except to send back reports. Boone wasn't much good at this part, but Lewis and Clark were, but I daresay I call more on the Kentuckian than I do the Virginian. All I know is that every one who reads this could be my Sacajewia, a real guide to the undiscovered country. Amen.
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Beta: The Courage to Fail & Change | Wright'sRoom - 0 views

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  • Cris Crissman on 30 Jan 14
     
    Embracing uncertainty takes courage. Shelley Wright is one of the most courageous teachers I know.
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Is books making us stupid? behind the curtain of #rhizo14 | Dave's Educational Blog - 0 views

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  • Cris Crissman on 08 Feb 14
     
    Stephen Downes' comments in OLDaily, Feb. 7 Is books making us stupid? behind the curtain of #rhizo14 Dave Cormier, Dave's Educational Blog, February 6, 2014 This post actually provides a good overview of the first few weeks of the Rhizomatic Learning course, exploring as it does a set of "challenges" posed by Dave Cormier: Cheating as learning Enforcing independence Embracing uncertainty Is books making us stupid I can certainly be frustrated by some of this sort of discussion - when people express concerns, for example, about "enforcing independence" my reaction is that they just don't know what those words mean. And in another post I've raised some questions about some of the more nebulous aspects of this approach to learning. But I see value in these discussions. And questioning the authority of the book is certainly something I support.
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No! You should not do DS106 | doublemirror - 0 views

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  • What have you changed you mind about recently and why?
  • the greater the tension, the greater is the potential. Great energy springs from a correspondingly great tension of opposites
  • DS106 subscribes to what Cormier calls ‘community as curriculum’
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  • depending on one’s pedagogical position, one can argue about feasibility and validity of knowledge created within a community
  • Yes, it takes a particular kind of learner to engage with the mythology of DS106 and understand that the learning is in the engagement.
  • The psychology of creativity involves a great deal and as the new self appointed DS106 Headless Shrink I hope to bring some of that capability into the collective.
  • Some see this interactional pattern and have accused DS106 of being cult. I
  • [but] the vast majority of the rest of them will just keep blindly following one superprofessor messiah after another, thinking that they’re learning something important about life when in fact what they’re really doing is helping the enemies of higher education keep more people from ever becoming enlightened at all. ‘
  • Jaap Bosman on 28 Jan 14
     
    the real headless mooc
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