LEARN
TechLearn2009
Cliff Landis
clifflandis.net

A little music to help us learn…
•Mendelssohn
•Lasse Gjertsen
•Kutiman

EVOLUTION
LEARNING
YOU CAN’T STOP CREATIVITY
ART
LIFE

How many of you plan to
stop reading books
when you retire?

My problem
with “lifelong
learning”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19342976@N00/2378084776

Auditory
Learners
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orrinjcl/87422646/

Kinesthetic Learners
ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/orrinjcl/3283753909/

How did visual learners learn before
the printing press?!?
ww.flickr.com/photos/38446022@N00/2874171422

Visual Learner ≠ Textual Learner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WtBRNydso

Whnce Ltrcy?
.com/photos/51035553780@N01/2831891520

What happens when we can no
longer rely on spelling in text?
www.flickr.com/photos/91071760@N00/250869964
…wait….could we ever?

But soft…how was the Bard’s spelling?
www.flickr.com/photos/25188011@N00/3101392028

Melville
Dewey?
Melvil
Dewey?
Melvil Dui?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Melvil_Dewey.jpg

Language ≠ Text
Language = Ideas
www.flickr.com/photos/44124370018@N01/2320267692

Searching visually

Searching aurally

Searching kinesthetically?!?!
www.flickr.com/photos/80992738@N00/2643080409

The need for Universal Design
http://failblog.org/2008/09/05/ramp-fail/

Universal Design
1. Equitable Use
2. Flexibility in Use
3. Simple and Intuitive
4. Perceptible Information
5. Tolerance for Error
6. Low Physical Effort
7. Size and Space for Approach and Use
http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/about_ud/udprincipleshtmlformat.html

Culture teaches us…
Vision > Hearing > Touch
How does that affect Education?

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

There goes my career in dance…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orrinjcl/123174181/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/orrinjcl/3460639346

I didn’t become a book artist until my late 20s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orrinjcl/3283753909/in/set-72157613245473098/

Think of the single
most important thing
you’ve ever learned

What are we teaching our kids?
• You have to get a job
• You have to learn this stuff
• Only results count
• Your security is more important than your joy
• Other people decide which of your
contributions is important
• Be creative, but only within the constrains
others set for you

Think
outside
the
box!
(but if you do
anything outside the
box, you’re fired)
www.flickr.com/photos/53171632@N00/2487676119

Assigned
readings
were
their own
horrific
Crucible
www.flickr.com/photos/73516598@N00/126347839

What evil, maniacal, sadistic bastard thought up
the idea of a “core curriculum”?!?!
www.flickr.com/photos/77482236@N00/369387949

• Minimally Invasive Education is defined as a
pedagogic method that uses the learning
environment to generate an adequate level of
motivation to induce learning in groups of
children, with minimal, or no, intervention by a
teacher.
http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/MIE.html

When we
play, we
learn.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stuart_br
own_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.ht
ml
www.flickr.com/photos/99911874@N00/562918256

Generation Gap
≠
Can’t / Won’t / Doesn’t
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84392129@N00/3169496625

You are the embodiment of learning
www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/2397012858

You are the embodiment of creation
www.flickr.com/photos/63989735@N00/2431138923

You are NOT just a brain on a stick.
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1126

You are learning
You are creating
Now, just do it
deliberately

Questions?