I enjoyed reading the Knowledge-able article by Wesch. 2 parts I liked:
"As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able."
"The new media environment provides new opportunities for us to create a community of learners with our students seeking important and meaningful questions. Questions of the very best kind abound, and we become students again, pursuing questions we might have never imagined, joyfully learning right along with the others. In the best case scenario the students will leave the course, not with answers, but with more questions, and even more importantly, the capacity to ask still more questions generated from their continual pursuit and practice of the subjectivities we hope to inspire."
That's a good list of key skills to emphasize in the ELP. Networked work can help us teach those skills more effectively too. As a largely "participatory" curriculum already (other than the rare multiple choice PWT), many of the skills are already included (I think), but it would be valuable to read articles like Wesch to get ideas for how key skills might be developed further.
As Bill blogged, moving from a "content-based" to a "questions-based" program is an interesting conceptual shift to consider too. In the VOF unit this term, I want to experiment with the approach of letting students find, read, and critique, and share their own articles rather than assigning articles. Something like:
Main Question=In your opinion, what is the most serious issue confronting our world today? Search for and post on our website an article that discusses that issue. Also, in class, lead a 15-min. P&D on it.
Also, I couldn't really understand what was going on in the video from his cultural anthropology class, but it looked fun.
Mark
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Owen James <okokoj@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear C3ers,
I have been pondering the issue of when/how C3 can start off the discussion in ELP about how on-demand access to information and personally owned social learning technologies have completely redefined the learning landscape. And, how will the ELP respond?
From a C3 perspective, all learning should/must be networked, and this has to be understood & fully appreciated for what it means for teaching and learning. This understanding should then underpin all ELP reform.
Otherwise, I fear that despite everyone's best efforts, our reform will basically produce only an upgraded version of a broken model.
This article from Bill's blog could be a starting point.
How can we start the discussion? What do you think?
Owen.
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