EmpoweringPeopleToTeachThemselves

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  • spectrum: teachers dumping knowledge into student's head vs student seeking their own path
    • student being cause, teacher being effect
    • interesting focus on individual as center of universe... cartesian vs copernican education...
  • "study technology": applying scientific knowledge for practical purposes
  • facilitation of learning... opening your mind to learn... a "learning practice"
    • systematic identification and removal of barriers to learning
  • learning is a continuous project; if you can't teach yourself you're screwed
  • more education, less literacy? (despite more college students, fewer are literate)
    • "you are now educated" -- is what our tests tell us
  • why do people stop being passionate?
  • paradigm shift... teacher-focused made obsolete by student-driven...

 

  • the methodology
    • 3 barriers
      • body of data
    • concepts
      • thinking you know something already
      • thinking it's impossible/too complex to learn
    • history
      • developed by l. ron hubbard
      • started in 30s, formalized in 60s
    • practice: when you don't know a word or lack understanding, investigate and go back
    • feeling frustrated
    • blank page
    • "skipped gradient" -- emerges when you're trying to do something

 

  • there's a focus on independent units of work... take a test alone, work in groups, but rarely tested in a group... teaching all people to cheat fairly

 

 

  • ellis vygodsky -- social learning / scaffolding

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