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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe Perils of PBL’s Popularity | Blog | Project Based Learning | BIE2018-02-04T21:18:11+00:00
https://www.bie.org/blog/the_perils_of_pbls_popularity
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https://medium.com/the-mission/the-culture-of-childhood-weve-almost-destroyed-it-d16af1fa16f1
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201712/the-joy-and-sorrow-rereading-holt-s-how-children-learn
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/02/24/sherry-turkle/remembering-seymour-papert/
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https://medium.com/learning-re-imagined/the-edtech-rebel-alliance-65bfd34b8836#.hd5ohxud0
robertogreco“Little by little the subversive features of the computer were eroded away: Instead of cutting across and so challenging the very idea of subject boundaries, the computer now defined a new subject; instead of changing the emphasis from impersonal curriculum to excited live exploration by students, the computer was now used to reinforce School’s ways. What had started as a subversive instrument of change was neutralised by the system and converted into an instrument of consolidation.”
[The Children's Machine by Seymour Papert
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emurphy/stemnet/papert.html ]
As I walked around the 2017 Bett Show I was struck by how exceptionally bland everything was, bathed in fluorescent lighting that felt like it was irradiating the soul out of the machines like it was E.coli. Despite the incredible financial bets being made on EdTech, with more money than ever being injected into start-ups, they’ve turned EdTech into the equivalent of airport passenger conveyors or “satellite navigation” for learning which means you never get lost and you always end up at the same destination passing through the town of Boredom.
[Edtech is the next fintech
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/13/edtech-is-the-next-fintech/ ]
Enslaved to the tyranny of testing and measurement, the affordances of todays technology in EdTech form are being used to develop ever more efficient ways of delivering a 19th century curriculum. Perhaps we have lost sight of what education is for and why we send our kids to school?
Essentially we are using today’s digital platforms to go into reverse. We’re talking about content, and teacher at the front distribution while measuring the effectiveness of our tech by improvement in measured learning outcomes for which read, passing tests.
When you look at who’s making the big financial investments in EdTech things suddenly become clear.
[Who's Investing in Ed-Tech (2010-2016)
http://hackeducation.com/2016/05/03/who-is-funding-this-bs ]
There is a chain of command of organisations, think tanks, agencies and deliverologists who brief financial institutions that whatever bells and whistles you’ve got the point is to get school kids through a set of tests preferably owned by another multinational corporation like, for example, Pearson.
[https://vimeo.com/165124568 ]
Standardised, Automated and Privatised
This, while the creeping privatisation of state education via academisation, charter and free schools who are adopting similar leadership strategies to those used in retail or fast food outlet management to the shop floor. Sorry, I mean classroom.
These strategies are based around standardisation and automation of content distribution and testing. By focusing on instruction rather than the learner, actual personalisation can take a backseat.
But what about “personalised learning” I hear you cry? Well, it takes a human being, practiced in the craft of teaching, to do that. Personalised learning is focused on the child rather than the instruction and the individuated or differentiated learning that software is capable of, think Amazon recommendations for example, is all about instruction. This is what is known as “Instructionism” or the explicit teaching of facts or showing students how to solve problems and then having the students practice them. Instructionists believe that learning is the direct result of having been taught.
But all is not lost.
Amidst the big budget trade stands/booths at the outer fringes of the galaxy are new start-ups, many of which are existing on the financial equivalent of fumes. This, to me, was where the action and excitement was. New EdTech designers like Night Zookeeper, Erase All Kittens, SAM Labs, Pi-Top, Stepping Into Business, Detective Dot, A Tale Unfolds, Technology Will Save Us and many others have embraced, wittingly or unwittingly, the spirit of Papert’s Constructionism. These young organisations are all about providing the tools and the opportunities for experiential learning that is centred on the learner rather than the instruction.
[https://www.nightzookeeper.com/
https://eraseallkittens.com/
https://www.samlabs.com/
https://www.pi-top.com/
http://steppingintobusiness.org/
https://www.detectivedot.org/
https://ataleunfolds.co.uk/
https://www.techwillsaveus.com/ ]
I would argue that it is organisations like these who, rather than those seeking to automate and standardise education, are like a “Rebel Alliance” liberating learners and teachers alike to create their own, powerful learning experiences. Learning how to learn, solving abstract challenges and creating new knowledge must surely be some of the most vital competences that a child can leave school with.
It’s hard to see how another interactive white board or learning management system, with or without AI, will provide access to these skills. Yet these nascent enterprises give me hope that EdTech has yet to have its soul completely crushed, swallowed and spat out as another uberfication of education where the learner is simply a passenger and the destination is a set of certificates from a bygone age.
Perhaps we need an alternative event to the kind that the Bett Show, or ISTE for that matter, has become. Perhaps we actually do need to form an “EdTech Rebel Alliance” where all of the stakeholders of learning, that includes teachers, parents and learners can converge to design new learning futures.
It strikes me that we need something that isn’t just another EdTech incubator/accelerator/trade association Ponzi scheme where whoever pays the most cash gets the most attention. I’m thinking of a mutually supportive collective committed to radically transforming education not by automating it but by liberating it from the tyrannical business plan of a multinational corporation."]]>education technology automation grahambrown-martin 2017 resistance children constructionism contructivism socialconstructivism seymourpapert jeanpiaget vygotsky experientiallearning sfsh canon privatization instructionism standardization personalization differentiation unschooling deschooling learning howwelearn control contenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c2cb23199e6c/Allen Tan on Twitter: "The rise of Slack / messaging apps and bot culture means that all the research and analysis of MUD and MOO culture is super relevant again."2015-12-23T18:13:59+00:00
https://twitter.com/tealtan/status/679709599444893696
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https://newrepublic.com/article/124750/man-will-save-math
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOf4EMN6-XA
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http://www.onbeing.org/program/parker-palmer-and-courtney-martin-the-inner-life-of-rebellion/7122
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/knowing/pdfs/Ackerman.pdf
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http://theamericanreader.com/a-question-of-silence-why-we-dont-read-or-write-about-education/
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http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/culture-machine-live-podcast-johanna-drucker/
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http://web.media.mit.edu/~silver/radlearning/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_practice
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http://hackeducation.com/2012/08/02/education-theorists/
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