Learning is Change

Sometimes we forget about the joy of discovery in favor of all of our other responsibilities. Joelle Warsh called attention to this, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I believe that we engage in the process of Seeing things clearly by experiencing that process of discovery. How do you see that process of Discovery?

The original Video: https://plus.google.com/u/0/117917391550620575487/posts/PaDHiC6Rqtd

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I have been a part of a lot of discussions around whether or not schools are "real life" or whether they should prepare us for "real life". But, I think that is a strange way of framing authentic learning. All life is real, and we should try and make sure our working worlds and our learning worlds meet each other to create a reality that we want to be a part of.

Thank you to Ginger Lewman for inspiring this vlog: http://gingerlewman.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/ask-us-to-need-to-learn/

Correction: Ginger talks about the "Real World" we are preparing kids for more often than "Real Life", but I think it still counts.

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This is my mini-Ode to schools. I was so happy to have the opportunity to teach and learn within a school recently, that I thought I would talk about it here and ask if you feel lucky too.

Why do you feel lucky to be within a school?

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I was flabbergasted to learn that one of my favorite current collaborators and I had shared a conversation four years ago. Neither of us recognized the opportunity that serendipity was presenting to us, and yet we got a second chance to learn from one another. Because we both have our own "Long Tail Learning", we were able to recognize our mutual interest and capitalize on it.

Original Blog Post: http://34.136.86.195.nip.io/blog/2009/01/24/the-educon-21-opening-panel/

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Collaborations don’t last forever. But, if you chronicle them as they are happening and if you talk about what you are learning, the conversations that are built upon them will never die. Just become The Fellowship of the Ning is going to stop making new videos, it doesn’t mean that their over 600 videos will somehow disappear. We should all be trying to create Learning Time Capsules out of our daily reflections so that we can continue the community even after we have moved on to other projects.

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