Seminar Materials November 15
Transition, Revolution, and Places of Wonder
The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, 1862
In case you're unfamiliar with these decade-old TED talks, here they are, continuing to inspire me!
What sense does Sir Ken's vision of the revolution, based on Agriculture rather than Manufacturing, and on creating necessary to individual thriving make in the context of your teaching practice?
Again, how does the hole-in-the-wall project-- "children will learn to do what they want to learn to do" -- make sense in the context of your teaching? (To Tom's point about the remarkable constancy of crisis in higher ed, I am reminded of how Leonardo da Vinci said essentially the same thing, in the negative, in the 15th century "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in").
With those materials in the background, and working on a different project to express the role of play in learning, I came across Elizabeth Ellsworth, who teaches Media Studies and is Head of Curriculum and Learning at the New School in New York.
Ellsworth's 2005 book Places of Learnings: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy, bursts with theoretical references which will be variously familiar to you given our range of backgrounds. I am thinking of Chapter 1 as our main focus, but give you chapter 3 as well as that's where she gives far more concrete examples. My hope is that you will each find a passage valuable to your own work, and that we could talk about those passages that are meaningful, but it may be that you prefer to focus on the TED talks OR on an episode of wonder, desire, or individual nurture in your own educational experience.
You can read the document here
because I have room, here are a couple additional materials supplemental play.
Frank Capra's Our Mr. Sun, Bell Labs Learning Series, mentioned in Ellsworth as a source of wonder and permanent knowledge:
the famous RSA version of Ken Robinson's talk
and, Ellsworth on curriculum design and diversity:
Elizabeth Ellsworth from The New School Working Group on Vimeo.
The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, 1862
In case you're unfamiliar with these decade-old TED talks, here they are, continuing to inspire me!
What sense does Sir Ken's vision of the revolution, based on Agriculture rather than Manufacturing, and on creating necessary to individual thriving make in the context of your teaching practice?
Again, how does the hole-in-the-wall project-- "children will learn to do what they want to learn to do" -- make sense in the context of your teaching? (To Tom's point about the remarkable constancy of crisis in higher ed, I am reminded of how Leonardo da Vinci said essentially the same thing, in the negative, in the 15th century "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in").
With those materials in the background, and working on a different project to express the role of play in learning, I came across Elizabeth Ellsworth, who teaches Media Studies and is Head of Curriculum and Learning at the New School in New York.
Ellsworth's 2005 book Places of Learnings: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy, bursts with theoretical references which will be variously familiar to you given our range of backgrounds. I am thinking of Chapter 1 as our main focus, but give you chapter 3 as well as that's where she gives far more concrete examples. My hope is that you will each find a passage valuable to your own work, and that we could talk about those passages that are meaningful, but it may be that you prefer to focus on the TED talks OR on an episode of wonder, desire, or individual nurture in your own educational experience.
You can read the document here
because I have room, here are a couple additional materials supplemental play.
Frank Capra's Our Mr. Sun, Bell Labs Learning Series, mentioned in Ellsworth as a source of wonder and permanent knowledge:
the famous RSA version of Ken Robinson's talk
and, Ellsworth on curriculum design and diversity:
Elizabeth Ellsworth from The New School Working Group on Vimeo.
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