EXPERIENCES ("Velcro" Stories About Learning)
LESSONS / CONTEXT / CONDITIONS
THOUGHTS
RESOURCES
- 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