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Yesterday at the Center for Civic Media, our lunch guest was S. Craig Watkins, a professor at UT Austin working on a variety of projects under the heading of "Connected Learning". In his blog post about the idea, Dr. Watkins defines this as:
the increasingly complex ways in which young people’s learning ecologies are evolving. It is the notion that, in addition to happening anytime and anywhere, learning happens across the many different networks that teens’ navigate. School is an obvious node in a young learner’s network. But school represents only one node among many others, which includes after school sites, extracurricular activities, online communities, libraries, family, and peer communities just to name a few.
In his visit, he pointed out a few really important points, namely:
the "learning & civic opportunity gap" we see in poor/marginalized communities is largely a result of what happens OUTSIDE of school, so there is perhaps the greatest opportunity to make a difference there;
these "informal learning environments" don't have the rigidities of the formal education system, allowing for greater creativity and innovation;
In "extreme" locations, such as the poorest parts of the world with the least formal infrastructure, traditional school simply isn't possibly, so we must take a more real-world, connected approach.
This resonates with so much of what I've been thinking about, regarding
Yesterday at the Center for Civic Media, our lunch guest was S. Craig Watkins, a professor at UT Austin working on a variety of projects under the heading of "Connected Learning". In his blog post about the idea, Dr. Watkins defines this as:
the increasingly complex ways in which young people’s learning ecologies are evolving. It is the notion that, in addition to happening anytime and anywhere, learning happens across the many different networks that teens’ navigate. School is an obvious node in a young learner’s network. But school represents only one node among many others, which includes after school sites, extracurricular activities, online communities, libraries, family, and peer communities just to name a few.
In his visit, he pointed out a few really important points, namely:
the "learning & civic opportunity gap" we see in poor/marginalized communities is largely a result of what happens OUTSIDE of school, so there is perhaps the greatest opportunity to make a difference there;
these "informal learning environments" don't have the rigidities of the formal education system, allowing for greater creativity and innovation;
In "extreme" locations, such as the poorest parts of the world with the least formal infrastructure, traditional school simply isn't possibly, so we must take a more real-world, connected approach.
This resonates with so much of what I've been thinking about, regarding
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Investing @ USV. Student of cities and the internet.
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanFrom Crypto-Native to Crypto-Enabled
I’m not one to make big annual predictions, but one thing that seems likely to me is that 2024 will mark the emergence of mainstream apps powered by ...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanBitcoin as Battery
One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes.Bitcoin at first was "weird internet money...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanThe Internet's Next Business Model: A Conversation with Cloudflare's Matthew Prince
I just released a new episode of The Slow Hunch with Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare. Since we invested in their Series C back in 2013, I've watched Matthew and his team build one of the most critical pieces of internet infrastructure—protecting and accelerating vast portions of global web traffic. Our conversation traces Matthew's journey from his early "slow hunch" that the internet was fundamentally broken and needed fixing. We start with his law school days in 2000, when ...
...the anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know."
I am sure this resonates with nearly everyone who has attended school. It seems that we're entering a period where the values of natural learning and the technologically-enabled methods of connected learning will join together to produce awesome and exciting opportunities. And seriously important outcomes, such as better access to learning opportunities and communities and deeper civic engagement. And of course, as with most disruptive innovations, we can expect to see three things happen, likely in sequence:
Innovations in connected learning will be written off as "toys" -- irrelevant to the "real" learning in schools.
Institutions that are threatened by connected learning will resist and fight back (countries, school districts, teachers unions, etc.)
Connected learning will prove to be more powerful and significant than anything we've seen before, and the role of formal learning institutions will change dramatically.
This is perhaps one of the most exciting and important areas where networks can make a difference. I'll be following closely.
...the anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know."
I am sure this resonates with nearly everyone who has attended school. It seems that we're entering a period where the values of natural learning and the technologically-enabled methods of connected learning will join together to produce awesome and exciting opportunities. And seriously important outcomes, such as better access to learning opportunities and communities and deeper civic engagement. And of course, as with most disruptive innovations, we can expect to see three things happen, likely in sequence:
Innovations in connected learning will be written off as "toys" -- irrelevant to the "real" learning in schools.
Institutions that are threatened by connected learning will resist and fight back (countries, school districts, teachers unions, etc.)
Connected learning will prove to be more powerful and significant than anything we've seen before, and the role of formal learning institutions will change dramatically.
This is perhaps one of the most exciting and important areas where networks can make a difference. I'll be following closely.
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