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Terry Elliott

Ego and The Swarm | teachnorthern - 1 views

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  • I’m finding it impossible to escape the thread of ‘ego’ running through the last ten days.  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      I am having trouble, too. In fact I find myself moving from ego to eco, from tree to root, from node to network in a kind of leap of faith.
  • Independent learning is tough.  Independent thinking even tougher.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      I agree and I want to add that the task of interdependent learning and thinking is even harder. It is so hard for me that I am not sure I am even doing it. I trust that this share annotation is one simple way of doing interdependence. The hard part is figuring out what is happening in the mix that rises above the mix. What is the reintegration that happens as we bake our variety into the cake? What is the final baked product?
  • I’ve thought about Tragic Life Stories (actually the name of a department in WH Smith) and the way in which they dominate not only TV and popular news media, but stories about adult learning too.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      I file this under 'everybody's a critic'. Each of us has a set of personal and professional filters for the buzzing profusion of life that pushed into us every day. The tabloid filter is quite simple; it bleeds, it leads. There are lots of schema (some might call them assumptions or presumptions). Diversity is good--a presumption. Dependency is bad--a presumption. The problem with all of these presumptions is that they are habitualized into near-instinct quick filters. Hence, the birth and perpetuation of the blindspot. Dammit.
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  •  I want a dialogue that begins, “I can’t do this thing you asked me to do, in this timeframe,” and continues with, “What are you assuming, that is stopping you meeting the deadline?” – designed to search only for a strategy to get past whatever barrier has set itself in the way.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      This is heavy pull here. The filter/value of keeping deadlines is self-referential. You make the filter because that cog is needed to fit into the larger machinery of the institution. You must have deadlines in order to have order within the term or semester. We wouldn't want to treat others unfairly, unequally (even more filters). Thus the system creates the circular logic that justifies the values of the system. The heavy pull is to dump the trash can that holds the whole mess together and say, "Well...it's a mess. Let's try something else." What you are asking for is the right to be messy. The system struggles against such illegibility. Mightily. So mightily that subversion (one of the tools of messification) is inevitable and iconoclasm becomes a way of life in that system. Or we become 'silent runners'. Does this analysis seem true to what you are saying? I ask in the spirit of interdependence.
  • Bernard Williams ‘fetish of assertion’
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      "Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • So, released from time to time from the imperative to obey my ego, I walk happily into the swarm.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      Fro ego to eco--how else can it be with 7 billion people on the planet. This is not just a stance, it is an imperative.
Cris Crissman

Beta: The Courage to Fail & Change | Wright'sRoom - 0 views

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courage beta

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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.
Cris Crissman

~ Stephen's Web - 0 views

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future schooling

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  • Cris Crissman on 30 Jan 14
     
    For #rhizo14 "This future wasn't created by the Bill Gates of the world. It was created by the Pete Seegers" via @oldaily
  • Terry Elliott on 04 Feb 14
     
    I understand Downes' rhetorical purpose here, but I think that all of us are midwives to the emerging future otherwise we get trapped in paradigms like "the great man" theory of history. And I mean that literally--the paternal bias and the bias toward what are conceived of as "large" acts.
Vanessa Vaile

The Amazing Story of Kudzu | Max Shores - 1 views

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rhizo14 rhizome kudzu networks botany

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  • Vanessa Vaile on 29 Jan 14
     
    There's so much of this fast-growing vine in the Southeastern U.S., you might think it was a native plant. Actually, it took a lot of hard work to help kudzu spread so widely. Now that it covers over seven million acres of the deep South, there are a lot of people working hard to get rid of it! But kudzu is used in ways which might surprise you…plus Kudzu's history
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"
Cris Crissman

Infographic: Deeper Learning - Getting Smart by Getting Smart Staff - Charter Schools, ... - 0 views

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infographic MOOC DLMOOC

shared by Cris Crissman on 23 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Cris Crissman on 23 Jan 14
     
    Yikes! Is that a tree on the Deeper Learning logo? See Lima's RSA on networked learning (rhizomatic metaphor) versus the tree metaphor
  • Vanessa Vaile on 23 Jan 14
     
    Take a look at the Celtic Tree of Life image that combines tree and rhizome, http://www.kelticdesigns.com/Media/WebLogos/TreeofLifeByJenDelythN.gif
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