Interestingly enough, schools often seem to discourage activities with these distributed forms of knowledge and resources, instead focusing on testing for what students have "inside their heads". However, I think it's just as important to recognize, evaluate, and help develop students' strategies for learning, collaborating, and accessing knowledge that they don't already possess, as this seems to be much more aligned with what we do as adults. I mean, I don't know all sorts of things, but I have pretty good strategies in place for finding them out.
Lúcia Carneiro on 25 May 10Wow, Carla! I loved it! We really should start paying attention to everything he said. I agree with him when he says that we need a revolution in education.Get rid of that linearity concept that have invaded (and pervaded) the minds of many educational institutions- go to college. I loved the "a 3 year old child is not a half six year old child." How true! Thanks for sharing. :)
Carla Arena on 25 May 10Dear Lúcia, I'm glad you enjoyed it. He has another video about how we and schools kill creativity. It is really inspiring. Also, in relation to the non-linearity of learning, what you're experiencing in this online session is exactly that, learing how to deal with a non-linear online world and the messiness it implies, learning how to make sense of all that.
