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Five things I think I think The best teaching prepares people for dealing with uncertainty The community can be the curriculum – learning when there is no answer The rhizome is a model for learning for uncertainty Rhizomatic learning works in the complex domain We need to make students responsible for their own learning (and the learning of others)
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Embracing Uncertainty
Rhizomatic Learning in Formal Education.
Why do we teach?
Five things I think I think
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What are we actually trying to teach?1. Fire burns, don’t touch it?2. When people tell you not to do something, you
should listen to them?3. Hot is something you might want to check for?
Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty
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Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty2. The community can be the curriculum – learning
when there is no answer
Yes, networked learning, we know.
Enter the Rhizome
A special kind of network
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Some of the qualities that make rhizomes cool1. They can map in any direction from any
starting point2. They grow and spread via experimentation
within a context3. They grow and spread regardless of
breakage
Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty2. The community can be the curriculum – learning
when there is no answer3. The rhizome is a model for learning for
uncertainty
What kind of learning is it for?
I wouldn’t want my doctor learning that way!
”Successful health services in the 21st century must aim not merely for change, improvement, and response, but for changeability, improvability, and responsiveness.”Coping with complexity: educating for capabilitySarah W Fraser, Trisha Greenhalgh. 2001
“When you finally come to grips you can't solve today's problems using present methods, you take the lead to venture to the Complex Domain. As leader, you initiate a search and rally followers to find a new solution that will change the paradigm.”Change Management or Change Leadership?Gary Wong, Cognitive Edge Network 2010
Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty2. The community can be the curriculum – learning
when there is no answer3. The rhizome is a model for learning for
uncertainty4. Rhizomatic learning works in the complex domain
Doing it on purpose
Rhizomatic Learning in practice.
Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty2. The community can be the curriculum – learning
when there is no answer3. The rhizome is a model for learning for
uncertainty4. Rhizomatic learning works in the complex domain5. We need to make students responsible for their
own learning (and the learning of others)
Sure dave, that’s brilliant. But this is India,tell me how it scales.
We need to measure
learning
The fact that you need it doesn’t make it possible
Stop measuring
learning
Measure effort, engagement and connection. Allow learners to be responsible for - and measure their own - learning journey. Let the robots count what they can.
If we make the community the curriculum, membership becomes how we scale.
@davecormier
