This document discusses different approaches to learning including lifelong learning, visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles. It questions traditional education approaches that focus on standardized testing and prescribed curricula, arguing that this stifles creativity. It advocates for learning through play and exploration, allowing students to follow their interests and learn in a way that brings them joy rather than focusing primarily on results and external evaluations of their contributions.
18. The need for Universal Design
http://failblog.org/2008/09/05/ramp-fail/
19. 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
24. I didn’t become a book artist until my late 20s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orrinjcl/3283753909/in/set-72157613245473098/
25. Think of the single
most important thing
you’ve ever learned
26. 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
27. Think
outside
the
box!
(but if you do
anything outside the
box, you’re fired)
www.flickr.com/photos/53171632@N00/2487676119
28. Assigned
readings
were
their own
horrific
Crucible
www.flickr.com/photos/73516598@N00/126347839
29. What evil, maniacal, sadistic bastard thought up
the idea of a “core curriculum”?!?!
www.flickr.com/photos/77482236@N00/369387949
30. • 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
31. 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
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www.flickr.com/photos/99911874@N00/562918256
32. Generation Gap
≠
Can’t / Won’t / Doesn’t
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84392129@N00/3169496625
33. You are the embodiment of learning
www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/2397012858
34. You are the embodiment of creation
www.flickr.com/photos/63989735@N00/2431138923
35. You are NOT just a brain on a stick.
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1126