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Join PamelaMcLean's working group  Learning From Each Other.
PamelaMcLean: I am looking forward to learning from other people in this group and
from other groups connected to LearningFromEachOther. I hope to learn on
my own behalf and also on behalf of others - such as the teacher I
introduce, VeronicaBahago, who needs to learn about Ginger.
Meanwhile Andrius has begun
to gather people to join this group - so I now share Veronica's request
here, as I previously shared it with another group that I have been
active in for some time.(The UNESCO/IIEP Open Educational Resources
Community.To join, send a message to virtual.university@iiep.unesco.org.) See more at: Ginger.
Here are a variety of projects that are related to learning:
The WICC team has agreed the following goals for such a learning environment:
- Make passive knowledge about CCs available (WHY, WHAT, HOW)
- Make active knowledge about organising CCs available
- Make specialist knowledge about CCs available to sectoral workers: (eg health, learning, young people, environment, community development, local economic development)
- Learn skills to design effective CCs
- Learn how to deconstruct and reconstruct currency
- Connect with others
- Create a Community of Practice for CCs
- Help people to solve problems around existing CC systems.
Have we missed anything here?
What would be useful to you in this learning environment?
-- JohnRogers of the WalesInstituteForCommunityCurrencies
CyfranogiWorkingGroup
Learning JourneysThink about learning as a journey that goes like this:
- UNCONSCIOUS INCOMPETENCE "I don't know that I don't know about Community Currency - never heard of it."
- CONSCIOUS INCOMPETENCE "Someone told me about CC. I'd like to find out more."
- CONSCIOUS COMPETENCE "Now I'm learning about and practising CC."
- UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE "Now I'm doing it and don't even think about it."
BE:
Jinan, I couldn't agree more. It's the whole school/teach/educate
syndrome that needs to be reexamined. And recent books by Manish Jain
in India, Roland Meighan in England, and Mohd Idris of Malaysia have
expanded on the theme that has been around at least since Ivan Illich's
"Deschooling Society." Illich pointed out the ills of any kind of
schooling, including homeschooling, that set a curriculum to be
followed. As John Holt pointed out that we are "learning all of the
time"
The problem is how do we take advantage of, provide the resources,
promote the opportunity for life-long self learning.
AND, how do we make sure that everyone accepts this life[long
self-learning mindset.
The Public school philosophy has a valid point. EVERYONE should learn.
We cannot have a functioning democracy, or republic, or society unless
everyone take learning seriously. Currently the majority of the
people accept doctrinaire positions. They follow some leader or text
without personal examination or learning. As you say, "teaching takes
over learning." A authoritative, charismatic leader can convince most
people of almost and false concept. Homeschooling too often changes
one authoritarian figure with another. How to we assure that everyone
becomes a self-learning autodidact? Or as you say, what is the nature
of learning?
Bill Ellis
%gray%>> From: jinankb@eth.net
>> I think we should go deeper and deeper in to the real issues.I would
>> take
>> one more step from school being the culprit to 'teaching'.That is even
>> what
>> is called homeschooling needs to be questioned.The organic, natural
>> way in
>> which living beings make sense of the world in order to live is
>> 'learning'.We
>> should explore the very nature of learning.
>> I beleive that modern man is alienated from knowledge itself because of
>> teaching taking over learning,authority,text etc taking over
>> experience,
>> relying on others knowledge even from very young age, and relating to
>> the
>> world through concepts and theories and not directly with all our being
>> authenically.
>> Learning is natural but not teaching.
>> I would like to share with you an incident. A friend of mine along
>> with his
>> teenage daughter happened to vist a village market in
>> Andhra,India.They came
>> accross a 12 year old girl sitting and making beautiful articles in
>> bamboo.They were very fascinated and requested the girl to teach them
>> how to
>> make these articles.She replied that she doesn't know how to "teach".
>> My
>> friend then asked her to teach them the way she learned.She was more
>> perplexed and replied that she did not "learn".
>>
>> Jinan
>> www.kumbham.org
>> 09447121544,04931 221568,0487 2386723
>> nilambur-679329,Kerala.
JinanKodapully: Apr 1, 2007 LearningFromEachOther As usual we are having the sensing nature; knowing nature event at Aruvacode, Nilambur, Kerala.during April, May. Do come.
The fundamental issues we raise through this event is the 'nature of learning, biologically embedded aesthetic sense in children, role of the 'teacher', do nothing method etc. We hope to have dialouges, presentations etc with the visitors to the event.
A Variety of Options for Learning
[LifeLongSelfLearning The Life-Long Self-Learning Movement]
ACoalitionForSelfLearning
HowToDoIt - A variety of options for learning.
Heuristics: Heuristics is sort of a self learning or stalking strategy.
- Heuristics is the art and science of discovery and invention. The word comes from the same Greek root as "eureka": εὑρισκω, which means "I find". A heuristic is a way of directing your attention fruitfully.
OpenLearning
LearningCommunities is developing and ApprenticeshipDatabase for homeschoolers or self-learners. I'm interested to work on that, and start by showing the value of a wiki for getting started, building momentum and prototyping. We might start by geographical region:
Languages
Reading
- FourCorners: a phonics flash card system for teaching oneself to read
Mathematics
Science
Audio
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