This document discusses the concept of joy and its relationship to education. It contains quotes about the importance of joy and silliness. The document suggests that current education systems lack joy and advocates for turning pseudo learning into real learning by being mindful, creative, grateful, and silly. It questions why schools are not places of joy.

1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/teachaboy/9278694585
What Ever
Happened to
Joy?
Dean Shareski
DENSI 2013
Burlington,VT

2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lewiselementary/8683388187

3. “People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of
things they weren't so crazy about the first time.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagogeek/3288238069

4. joy
/joi/
Noun

5. joy
/joi/
Noun
1.the emotion evoked by well-being, success,
or good fortune or by the prospect of
possessing what one desires
2.the expression or exhibition of such emotion

10. Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: Logan LaPlante

11. Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: Logan LaPlante

15. “TO GETTHE FULLVALUE OF JOY
YOU MUST HAVE SOMEONETO DIVIDE IT WITH.”
MarkTwain

17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
"Why are our
schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
"Why are our
schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
"Why are our
schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
I’m appearing to accept an
odious premise—namely,
that joy must be justified as
a means to the end of
better academic
performance. Not so:
It’s an end in itself.

22. It’s an end in itself.

32. BE MINDFUL

33. BE MINDFUL

34. BE MINDFUL

35. BE MINDFUL

36. BE MINDFUL

37. CREATE SOMETHING

38. CREATE SOMETHING

39. CREATE SOMETHING

40. GRATITUDE

41. GRATITUDE

42. GRATITUDE

45. TURN PSEUDO LEARNING INTO REAL LEARNING
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barrettelementary/6935314377

46. TURN PSEUDO LEARNING INTO REAL LEARNING
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barrettelementary/6935314377

47. TURN PSEUDO LEARNING INTO REAL LEARNING
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barrettelementary/6935314377

48. BE SILLY AND LAUGH EVERYDAY

49. BE SILLY AND LAUGH EVERYDAY

50. BE SILLY AND LAUGH EVERYDAY

51. "There is a direct correlation between the level of
happiness in one's life and the amount of silliness
they allow into it."
She said, "I know. I've done studies."

52. http://zefrank.com

60. "If people did not do
silly things,
nothing intelligent
would ever get done."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/3165154438

61. I’m not afraid of stupid

62. I’m not afraid of stupid

63. I’m not afraid of stupid

66. THE FIRST WEBCAM

70. http://ushahidi.com/

71. Information
Joy

74. We must play.
But our merriment must be of that kind
(and it is, in fact, the merriest kind)
which exists between people who have,
from the outset,
taken each other seriously.
”C.S. Lewis
“

75. We must play.
But our merriment must be of that kind
(and it is, in fact, the merriest kind)
which exists between people who have,
from the outset,
taken each other seriously.
”C.S. Lewis
“

76. Dean Shareski
@shareski
http://shareski.ca
Stain(ski)