8. They follow their own paths.
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/87/97/879791_d5d8e306.jpg
9. Part 1 – Why are we
schooling?
The learning objective inspector
10.
11. STANDARD IV
Reading – A few lines of poetry or prose, at
the choice of the inspector.
Writing – A sentence slowly dictated once,
by a few words at a time, from a reading
book, such as is used in the first class of
the school.
Arithmetic – Compound rules (common
weights and measures).
Report of the Federal Security Agency: Office of Education 1876, p CLXII
29. • Technology: Humans
• Curriculum: Mentor
• We learn: One person’s
way of things
• Dave Truss – “the
projects that are really
cool are the ones where
they are connecting with
mentors”
Mentor learning
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Telemachus_and_Mentor1.JPG
32. "Carlo Crivelli 007" by Carlo Crivelli (circa 1435–circa 1495) -
Via The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-
ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA
Publishing GmbH.. Licensed under Public domain via
Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carlo_Crivelli_007.jp
g#mediaviewer/File:Carlo_Crivelli_007.jpg
University of
Toulouse students
scrutinize the
bosom of nature
33. “Those who wish to scrutinize the
bosom of nature to the inmost can
hear [at the University of Toulouse]
the books of Aristotle which were
forbidden at Paris” 1229AD
University of Tolouse Flyer, 1229 (Translated by Lynn Thorndike)
34. Technology: Text
Communication: One to many
Curriculum: absent author
We learn: The thoughts one
person had once
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle#mediaviewe
r/File:Aristotle_in_Nuremberg_Chronicle.jpg
Expert Learning
37. I believe it is not possible for common popular
instruction to advance a step, so long as formulas of
instruction are not found which make the teacher…
merely the mechanical tool of a method
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi – “How Gertrude Teaches Her Children, p. 41,
1801.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7244777M/How_Gertrude_teaches_her_c
hildren
38. I assert definitely, that a school-book is only good
when an uninstructed schoolmaster can use it at
need, [almost as well as an instructed and talented
one]
Ibid.
42. Technology: web
Communication: many to many
Gigantic scale
Curriculum: Community
What a community knows
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rice_rhizome.JPG
Community