My friend Robin Good made a must-see presentation on Love for Education at LeWeb in Paris. Robin’s vision and mine are so close that I could safely say “what he said” with no further elaboration. I feel the same way when I hear George Siemens or Teemu Arina. I was taken by surprise to find that four of us took part in Robin’s presentation in Paris. (I’d forgotten that Robin had asked me to reply to some questions on video a while back.)
We would inhabit a better world if we did not confuse learning with teaching. Schools are for socialization, not education. The underlying assumption is that life is a big secret. You can achieve success if you know the secrets, but the magicians who run the schools are the only ones who can let you in on them. It’s time to wake up from this shared illusion.
If you were on a spaceship, with three months to teach your children what they would need in their new life, what would you teach them?
- how to live healthy
hot to read to understand
how to learn
how to be creative
how to empathize
how to tell truth from fiction
how to predict consequences
how to value yourself
how to live a meaningful life
how to communicate effectively
how to to ask good questions
how to have great fun
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Hi Jay, and thanks for your great contribution to my presentation at LeWeb08. I am going to post soon an article that will include more of your videos about schools and learning as well as the best from the other cool contributors which I had contacted together with you.
Today, I have published another piece of this learning puzzle focusing on the idea brought forward by Seymourt Papert of Samba Schools as ideal learning environments. I am not a student of one but I go to a music school that has lots in common with this idea, and have made a full article around it, while trying to identify the key characteristics that make such places, ideal learning environments.
Let me know what you think: http://tinyurl.com/7uy65f
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