will richardson – do it

One of the first things Will got us practicing/prototyping..

We believe that was key to what followed the next few years.

We’ve been experimenting with and prototyping everything.

And perhaps it helped that we

So now.. we’re thinking, we have a doable, not ridiculous, missing layer.

Like Bill Strickland (et al) encourages, ..be the solution.

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ie:

ap on opting out – written sept 2013

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Find Will everywhere. Perhaps start here:

and/or here:

and/or here (with Audrey et al):

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from eml 2014 ebook:

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BSoA Interview

Feb 3, 2014

17 min – the potential we have now for self-organizing…. so (earlier) best thing to do is to do it ourselves first… 

30 min – the 4 c’s aren’t new – but 2 that are – connections and computing

33 – haven’t come up with the right filters yet (shirky)

35 – talking imaginary cosmopolitanism..ness

45 – talks on pisa – problem – results are manipulated

isn’t this pisa convo just like the bantering/retweeting on twitter referenced earlier?

where does it measure how you connect, find/share info.. measures are irrelevant..

cool.. but what if the measuring itself is the problem…

56 mi – moocs as experimentation with self-organizing – when badges (or whatever) finds a way to do accreditation/assessment..  can’t be any longer – that the only learning that counts is the learning we do inside institution

can we also say – can no longer say – only learning that counts is learning we can measure.. credential… sacred economy ness in ed..

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interview via Blake Boles mar 2015

on why school..

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We also got our aup/et al guidelines from Will:

just changed his 3rd – effective – to awesome – via Gus et al

grazie Will.

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At This Danish School, LARPing Is the Future of Education http://t.co/otzTGhRggz Anyone in the US doing this??? #edchat #satchat #education

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/willrich45/status/652893892673699840

doc: here’s where i feel most at peace – aspbergers.. helps me focus

makes people feel as if the world is actually a world and not a story..felt like i belong.. vs suicidal tendency from not belonging ness in school et al

http://willrichardson.com/post/136113614020/co-schooling

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jan 2016 – ability to be taught

http://willrichardson.com/post/137875977750/the-ability-to-be-taught

“The one really competitive skill is the skill of being able to learn.” ~Seymour Papert

why does it/anything have to be competitive..?

it’s not just the skills needed to learn, but it’s the dispositions as well. I’m not saying humans aren’t learners by their very nature, but there’s no question some end up being much more voracious than others when it comes to learning more about the world around them and their place in it

perhaps it’s more about the displacement of our innate ness (via school et al – see next two paragraphs) – than some acquiring more skills than others. ie: if we were truly free… to follow our whimsy/eudaimonia.. perhaps we would also be in a space/realm where competition was irrelevant/ungrokked..

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@willrich45

Is Blockchain the most important IT invention of our age? buff.ly/1QbZ16V I think I’m finally getting this… #edchat

“Distributed ledger technologies,” it claims, “have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services. In the NHS, the technology offers the potential to improve health care by improving and authenticating the delivery of services and by sharing records securely according to exact rules. For the consumer of all of these services, the technology offers the potential, according to the circumstances, for individual consumers to control access to personal records and to know who has accessed them.”

depends on how chained/blocked we keep our thinking…

ie: will we remain bent on measuring/proving/judging/labeling transactions/us or can we finally let go.. and simply use block chain ness to facilitate our curiosities.. coordinate us/antifragility..

blockchain et al

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@WendyDrexler

“Our ‘Undereducation’” by @willrich45 medium.com/@willrich45/ou…

But as Rick Shenkman points out in this piece at the Bill Moyers’ blog, it’s not about being stupid. “Voters aren’t dumb. They are ignorant.”

Why is that? I think it’s arguable that the ignorant masses are the result of a less than effective education system that is cranking out kids with relatively useless knowledge about calculus and the Louisiana Purchase at the expense of the skills and dispositions needed to not become ignorant.

Count among those things curiosity, which kids bring with them to school in truckloads when they are young but which quickly fades when forced to hew to the scripted curriculum.

indeed to curiosity. via Ta-Nehisi – it’s not about ignorance .. there’s no way we can expect people to know the things we – at that moment – are expecting them to know (Weinberger – too big to know – et al) .. it’s about incuriosity. that’s it.

also – the whole misnomer of the way we’re authoritatively using ignorant… who’s deciding what that word means.. no?

We’ve stripped them of the agency over learning that is required to avoid the *ignorance we now find ourselves confronted with. Is anyone shocked that Shenkman comes to this conclusion about the American populace:

**Ignorant voters lack knowledge, but their problem is not that they have trouble learning. The problem is that on their own they don’t try, relying instead on biases of one sort or another to guide their thinking.

*ignorance – the ignorance we are not confronted with – ? – does this mean all the B and b that goes into our political system..? might we ask why we’re still buying into – the manufactured consent ness.. i.. as i’m sure you do.. have first hand experience with the people (globally – ie: not just so called students, but so called homeless, so called refugee, so called 3rd world.. ) we spend our time pity ing.. that we should be spending our time listening to.. they have much to teach us.

**ignorant voters – oy – in my mind – my ignorant – but not incurious – mind – voting is the problem. and if we’re still buying into it.. i’d boldly say .. we’re being incurious.. about our how life could be. ie: redefine decision making et al.. disengaging from consensus ness.. et al..

But I would still argue, as John Taylor Gatto did over two decades ago, that we are dumbing down our kids. This may not be new; people have argued forever that the goal of education was to create an ignorant society so that those in charge could get away with whatever their self-serving interests demanded. But regardless of when it started, it’s untenable for this democracy today. (Did anyone else turn that debate last night off in embarrassment?)

perhaps.. the dumbing down comes in turning the debate/tv on..

perhaps embarrassment/sadness .. comes from all of us.. still flapping about issues.. rather than .. modeling..  a nother way

that seems to me what’s ridiculous.

The Internet can no doubt make us smarter and more educated.

perhaps that’s not the point – ie: not about knowledge.. but about imagination..

We can’t be ok with what this system has to some extent wrought. We should be *working hard to rethink that system to eliminate the “undereducated” as a lovable constituency for those hoping to ascend to the most powerful leadership position in the world.

*and/or.. working hard to rethink the ‘undereducated’ to eliminate that system..

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@willrich45

6/18/16 5:02 AM

“Outright Mistaken” buff.ly/1Uf4wEh #satchat pic.twitter.com/TrTfstNihe

We may find, in fifty or a hundred years, that all of what we think of as our most up-to-date notions about schools, teaching, and learning are either completely inadequate or outright mistaken. But we will make a big step forward if, by understanding children better, we can undo some of the harm we are now doing (xii).

(Written 49 years ago…) – by John