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rhizomes &
open learning
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Learning about treesWhat myth have we inherited for learning?
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Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi teaches
Switzerland to read
1798AD
I believe it is not possible for common popular
instruction to advance a step, so long as formulas of
instruction are not found which make the teacher…
merely the mechanical tool of a methodJohann Heinrich Pestalozzi – “How Gertrude Teaches Her Children, p. 41, 1801.
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I assert definitely, that a school-book is only good
when an uninstructed schoolmaster can use it at
need, [almost as well as an instructed and talented
one] Same book
STANDARD IV
Reading – A few lines of poetry or prose, at
the choice of the inspector.
Writing – A sentence slowly dictated once,
by a few words at a time, from a reading
book, such as is used in the first class of
the school.
Arithmetic – Compound rules (common
weights and measures).
Report of the Federal Security Agency: Office of Education 1876, p CLXII
What was it built to do?
We need people to read
Success is finishing
The myth I inheritedA closed system designed to impart
things
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Learning like weedsA myth for learning in a time of abundance
Rhizomes. They are many.
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They are difficult to contain.
They follow their own paths.
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The RhizomaticLearner
A special kind of network
People, ideas, thoughts…
Learner A starts with some connections
Learner B has others
Makes new connections
Make their own map
A messy, uncertain map
The RhizomaticSyllabus
Learner contract
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We need to measure
learnin
g
The fact that you need it doesn’t make it possible
The Rhizomatic Course
Try one thingweekly challenges
Cheating as Learning
Enforcing Independence
Embracing Uncertainty
Planned Obsolescence
Community As Curriculum
What are we teaching for?
Community as both vehicle for
curriculum and goal of curriculum
The community IS the curriculum
The myth we could build
An open system designed to help people grow