EXPERIENCES ("Velcro" Stories About Learning)
  • Interviews
  • Travel, seeing other culture
  • Hobbies
  • Caine's Arcade
  • Choir / Mr. Britt
  • Building websites
  • ?


LESSONS / CONTEXT / CONDITIONS
  • Conversation
  • Teaching others
  • Helping others -- Service Learning! (Big aha moment), Sylvia and research
  • Comparison / perspective
  • Immersion / authentic 
  • Perspective - understanding
  • Passionate / committed / modeling
  • Care?
  • Trial and Error
  • Expertise
  • Creation and learning by doing
  • Timing matters
  • Allowing frustration
  • Otherness / being an outlier
  • Not co-dependent
  • Allow and respect differences
  • Being challenged
  • Agency / choice
  • Reflective experience
  • Individual relationships
  • Compassion


THOUGHTS
  • Change - not policy, but social movement
  • This conversation at two levels--our own learning and creating personal strategies for learning, but meta level as well of thinking about how to hold conversations/events/? that help people take charge of their own learning narratives?
  • "Taking back the learning"
  • "Education Revolution" name brought out many more people
  • We all have learning stories, this understanding of learning can come from any group
  • Building a narrative
  • Goal?:  we can and should have these conversations (model this?)
  • Steve:  learning in conversations, so built a series of conversations to learn.  Like did with interview series.
  • This activity - hold with children / students / teachers / parents?  
  • "Ask 3 before me" classroom rule
  • Golden question:  how do we help people hold conversations about learning?
  • Maker activities
  • Disruption:  maker movement?  Gary's flyer outside the school--don't take this test.  Bartleby Initiative from Gatto
  • Sylvia:  talk and do.  Marching? 
  • Biographies:  "and s/he had a sickly childhood..." taken out of school?
  • Marieke - Education Revolution, Open School, "want my 18-year-old to be an adult"
  • Possible new opening question for evening:  Passion?  -->  how did you learn it?
  • Gary:  "Be an interesting kid" / "The best thing you can do for kids it to have them be around interesting adults"


RESOURCES
  • Legendary Learners
  • Tony Wagner, Making Innovators
  • Leon Botstein
  • Cal Newport, How to Be a High School Superstar
  • Tim Wilson, Redirect
  • Nurture Shock
  • Alfie Kohn:  How Rich Parents Derail School Reform (?)
  • Blake Boles, Better than College