Learner-centred learning; thoughts

Learner-centred learning; thoughts

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  What is learner-centred learning?Some thoughts World Heutagogy Day 2018 @fredgarnett and the World Heutagogy Crew…
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  Self-determined learner age5; Philippe; Shall we read the book together? Do you want to read the book to me? Nina; I don't want to read the book aloud! I want to read it with my imagination! If other people read the story to me... “It will spoil my imagination”
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  What is learner-centredlearning?  AS Neill A Dominies Log  The Academy as Conversation  Communities of Scholars hijacked by Cities  Liberal Arts as enabling learning  Schooling as a bullying infrastructure  Folksonomy not Taxonomy  How we might learn  Building a Learning Infrastructure  Trust the Learner  Resources
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  AS Neill –A Dominies Log  Just before WW1 AS Neill, who later founded the learner- centred school Summerhill, took up a job teaching in his local school. He kept a log, A Dominies Log, in which he daily recorded what went on and then reflected on that to further enable his ability to teach as a craft professional  There were plans to both, hold a national teaching conference, and to make Education Science an aspect of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science. The war ended this hopeful project to make education ethical and Neill merely set up a democratic school to inspire
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  The Academy ofConversation  Today we tend to think that learning and the academic model of learning started with the first Academy 2,500 years ago. It's more likely based on a Renaissance painting (Raphael) than an informed history of education.  Platos Academy, in Athens, however had a completely non- academic learning model based on conversation. Arguably it combined formal, non-formal and informal learning processes. Harvard University's Socratic model of learning is about the learner "owning" their learning, if in a very guided and institutionally-based way.
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  The Lectern dictates Oxford University argue that they invented the lecture by creating the lectern so the text of rare books could be read allowed and copied by "pupils." Unfortunately Dumbledore has propagated this dumbing down of learning through the 9 3/4//100 school of Hogw*** could do better  Before Bologna and Paris invented the University, in order to hijack learning for financial reasons, the European model of Learning was the self-organised Community of Scholars, self- organised on the actual Academy model, of finding a "master" and discussing thoughts with each other.
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  This is notthe learning you are looking for
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  The Liberal Artsof Learning  At Everything Unplugged, the learning conversations discussion group, one of our profoundly useful conclusions was that the (education) system should be based around providing us with formats of expression rather than subjects of study; an enabling education  Turns out the medieval Western university, for a time, taught this way. The Liberal Arts model was based on the scientific arts - music, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and the humanities arts - grammar, logic and rhetoric. A subject discipline "Masters" followed that grounding…
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  Grammar Rhetoric Logic Music Geometry Arithmetic Alchemy
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  Schooling as Bullying The disastrous 19th century triumph of educational taxonomies as schooling, not as the final "mastery" of learning, inverted our learning skill set. One education system with only one mode of expression examined  This way is right – your way is wrong…  Humans are a bio-diverse species, we survive because our human qualities are widely dispersed.  Let each learner find their own interests and find their own modes of expression  All ways are Alright
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  School pokes your eyesout University teaches you Braille Post-graduate study is speed-reading in Braille Fred Emery 1965
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  Folksonomy not Taxonomy Folksonomy; the collaborative definition of learning boundaries – suitable for a time of resource abundance  Folksonomy; the basis of collaborative inter-disciplinary learning  Taxonomy; the hierarchical definition of subject boundaries - possibly useful in times of resource scarcity (Fahreneit 451)  Taxonomy; the basis of educational discipline; don't spare the rod  Collaborative Wisdoms not hierarchical expertise
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  o r at i o n
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  How we mightLearn 0-6 Human Learning 6-12 Social Learning 12-18 Creative Learning
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  Michael Newman fromSummerhill 'Humans as learners’ is a definition that can isolate learning from creating. I like humans as creators, the creation of ourselves through exploration of our natural and community worlds. Robert Owen’s views that we create our identities, and this realisation, with reason, allows us to free ourselves from environmental determinism."
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  Building a LearningInfrastructure  What I learned from World Heutagogy Day about learner- centred learning is that we need to build a learning infrastructure…  Learning is an emergent process and each learner has a unique way of learning both as process and in terms of valued consequences.  To build a learning future we need both development frameworks to help us think afresh  And inspiring examples like CROS the Universitatea Alternativă in Romania who Trust the Learner
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  Trust the Learner We can start by learning to trust the learner  We can use our ears for deep listening (Keith Sawyer)  It's not the sunshine of institutions that enables you to learn It's the gravity of your intent to learn  Most of we need to create new metaphors of learning  More in Part 2…
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  World Heutagogy DayResources; What is Learner-centred learning?  WORLD Heutagogy Day https://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/world- heutagogy-day  What is Learner-centred learning Part One https://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/what-is-learner-centred- learning-1/  What is learner-centred learning Part Two https://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/what-is-learner-centred- learning-2/  Trust the Learner https://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/wikiquals-and- personalised-learning  Before and after Institutions https://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/before-and- after-institutions