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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.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7244777M/How_Gertrude_teaches_her_children

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.

They are aggressive and resilient http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwsnortheast/5951029777/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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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

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davcormier@upei.ca

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