DC
EXPERIENCES --> LESSONS --> PLAN
EXPERIENCES / LESSONS:
THE CONDITIONS:
PLAN
BECOMING A CHANGE-MAKER
LONG TAIL WORLD
A - B - C
RESOURCES
EXPERIENCES --> LESSONS --> PLAN
EXPERIENCES / LESSONS:
- Learned French & Swedish by Living there
- I shouldn't Cheat! I didn't know I was cheating until friend accused me.
- Shocked at the technical sophistication when visiting Hong Kong
- Learned Home Repair by myself.
- Learned by making my own toys in Dad's workshop when I was a boy.
- Learned to program by programming
- Learned after schooling because of curiosity
- The “Basics” – what are they? Civic Citizenship; Reading; Validating
- Provided independence / space
- Build a routine
- "Learning is not linear"
- Focus on relationships
- Teaching
- Relationship w/content / authenticity
- Have a problem to solve
- Look for challenges
- Kill two+ birds with a stone
- Play
- Self-direction
- Peer learning
- Curiosity
- Engagement trumps content
THE CONDITIONS:
- Engagement trumps content
- You know you're learning, that you know more than you did before, that you can do more than you could before.
- Experience
- Imersion
- Interacting with content & environment
- Personal realization
- How you're made to feel
- How you make yourself feel
- Discovered fallacy of personal assumptions
- A practical need
- Resources to “play with”
- It Works! I Doesn't Work!
- Learning something that's new
- Owning the Knowledge
- Grew up with lots of conversation about anything of interest
- “Getting the Teacher off the Subject”
- Responsibility
- Curiosity (about right answer)
PLAN
- CAN ANYONE ELSE DO THIS FOR YOU?
BECOMING A CHANGE-MAKER
- Passions
- Personal Web Presence
- Modeling
- Project from HYE
LONG TAIL WORLD
- When the evidence of what we can do is what we've actually done rather than what someone else says we can do.
A - B - C
- A -> C: control, laws, dependency
- A - > B: constitution, independence, "process," CONVERSATION
- Building a "system:" the choice between control and independence
- Process: how do you enable / support / encourage?
- How has it been done with homeschoolers / marathoners?
- One on one, helping. See Dale Dougherty keynote from GEC 2012.
RESOURCES
- Legendary Learners by Jamie McMillin
- Wounded by School by Kirsten Olson
- Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner