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- 1. BRICK IN THE WALL VS. HOLE IN THE WALL Caroline D. Hardin @carolinescastle caroline@ictwiki.org
- 2. • Brick in the Wall: Learning with schools is problematic • Hole in the Wall: Learning without schools is problematic • We are the Hope: Hackers are really good at learning • Disrupting the System: Hackers are inventing education’s future
- 3. WHY LISTEN TO ME? “..I started to think about what this system does to kids and how they can escape from it, what it does to our society and how we can dismantle it.” - William Deresiewicz, former Yale professor in http://mashable.com/2014/07/22/avoid- the-ivy-league/
- 4. BRICK IN THE WALL 6 Shocking Things I learned in Grad School about Why Schools Suck
- 5. 1. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL? Civic Vocational Cognitive Emotional Moral Social and Cultural
- 6. EDUCATION IS CULTURAL “Throughout most of his historic course Homo sapiens has wanted from his children acquiescence, not originality. It is natural that this should be so, for where every man is unique there is no society, and where there is no society there can be no man.” Education and the Human Condition, Jules Henry, page 54
- 7. 2: BECAUSE EDUCATION IS CULTURAL... education is political
- 8. 3. OUR SCHOOLS ARE NOT DESIGNED TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD “…the majority of variance in test scores, up to 90 percent, is caused by out-of-school factors.” Karl F. Wheatley in a letter to the New York Times, June 29th 2014 Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau
- 9. 4. STANDARDIZED TESTS… have significant biases http://www.insidehighered.com/ news/2010/06/21/sat#sthash.8P yU4CpF.dpbs
- 10. 5. CLASSROOMS LOOK/ACT OUTDATED… But teacher training has significantly evolved! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magaz ine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html Developing a theory of ambitious early career teacher practice by Jessica Thompson, Mark Windschitl and Melissa Braaten
- 11. 5. CLASSROOMS LOOK/ACT OUTDATED… But teacher training has significantly evolved! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magaz ine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html Developing a theory of ambitious early career teacher practice by Jessica Thompson, Mark Windschitl and Melissa Braaten
- 12. 6. IT’S NOT BAD TEACHERS WHO RUIN OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM... It’s a bad educational systems which ruins our teachers
- 13. 6. IT’S NOT BAD TEACHERS WHO RUIN OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM... It’s a bad educational systems which ruins our teachers
- 14. 6. IT’S NOT BAD TEACHERS WHO RUIN OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM... It’s a bad educational systems which ruins our teachers
- 15. • Brick in the Wall: Learning with schools is problematic • Hole in the Wall: Learning without schools is problematic • We are the Hope: Hackers are really good at learning • Disrupting the System: Hackers are inventing education’s future
- 16. HOLE IN THE WALL What’s stopping us from getting rid of schools?
- 17. FIRST OF ALL, IT’S NOT A NEW IDEA “First, that all children will, under the right conditions, acquire a proficiency with programming that will make it one of their more advanced intellectual accomplishments. ” Seymour Papert, Mindstorms, page 16
- 18. VANDALISM, WASTED TIME, FRUSTRATION Arora, P. (2010), Hope-in-the-Wall? A digital promise for free learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41: 689–702. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01078.x
- 19. VANDALISM, WASTED TIME, FRUSTRATION Arora, P. (2010), Hope-in-the-Wall? A digital promise for free learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41: 689–702. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01078.x
- 20. TEACHING IS A SCIENCE Content Knowledge Pedagogical (teaching technique)) Knowledge Awesome teaching happens here
- 21. IT LETS THE GOVERNMENT FURTHER ABANDON THE POOR If the poor kids don’t learn, it’s their fault
- 22. UNGUIDED ‘DISCOVERY’ LEARNING… is not very effective or efficient “Why minimal guidance during instruction does not work: An analysis of the failure of constructivist, discovery, problem-based, experiential, and inquiry-based teaching” Paul Kirschner, John Sweller, Richard E. Clark, page 76.
- 23. WHAT IF...WE HAD APPRENTICESHIPS? Scale. (and you still need classes)
- 24. THEN WE’LL USE MOOCS*! those who succeed in moocs are the already successful *Massively Open Online Courses, like Coursera, Udacity or edX
- 25. FINE. BUT WE DON’T NEED THOSE IVORY TOWER ACADEMICS 1993: “What had started as a subversive instrument of change was neutralized by the system and converted into an instrument of consolidation” 2014: “The story is the same every time: a big, excited push, followed by mass confusion and then a return to conventional practices” Seymour Papert, The Children’s Machine, 1993, page 39 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html
- 26. FINE. BUT WE DON’T NEED THOSE IVORY TOWER ACADEMICS 1993: “What had started as a subversive instrument of change was neutralized by the system and converted into an instrument of consolidation” 2014: “The story is the same every time: a big, excited push, followed by mass confusion and then a return to conventional practices” Seymour Papert, The Children’s Machine, 1993, page 39 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html
- 27. SHOULD HACKERS BOTHER TAKING CLASSES? It does let you offload: Content Curation Self-Discipline Motivation “A class or course provides the kind of structure that I need in order to stay focused.” (Seeker7 in 2600 V Spring 2012, page 60)
- 28. BESIDES SKILLS, SCHOOLS WILL GIVE YOU: • Credentials • Networking • Demonstration of bullshit tolerance
- 29. WHAT ABOUT HACKERSPACES? 4 weird old tricks that make Hackerspaces good for learning
- 30. ACTUALLY, HACKERSPACES EXCEL AT EDUCATING, BECAUSE…. They are Communities of Practice which offer Situated Learning through Legitimate Peripheral Participation with an emphasis on Cognitive Apprenticeship
- 31. • Brick in the Wall: Learning with schools is problematic • Hole in the Wall: Learning without schools is problematic • We are the Hope: Hackers are really good at learning • Disrupting the System: Hackers are inventing education’s future
- 32. WE ARE THE HOPE 10 ways hackers model expert learning
- 33. 1. HISTORICAL EXAMPLES • Bill Gates • Steve Jobs • John Carmack • Mark Zuckerberg • Captain Crunch • Paul Allen • Jack Dorsey • Randal Schwartz • Aaron Swartz • Kevin Mitnick • Kevin Poulsen
- 34. 2. WE QUESTION AUTHORITY
- 35. 3. WE RTFM Klopfer, E. (2008). Augmented learning research and design of mobile educational games. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
- 36. 4. WE MAKE THINGS
- 37. 5. WE BREAK THINGS Productive Failure, Manu Kapur, Cognition and Instruction Vol. 26, Iss. 3, 2008
- 38. 6. WE ARE STUBBORN AS HELL
- 39. 7. WE KNOW WE CAN FIGURE IT OUT
- 40. 8. WE PLAY VIDEO GAMES
- 41. 9. WE USE THE HIVE MIND
- 42. 10.WE MAKE TOOLS TO DO THINGS FOR US
- 43. • Brick in the Wall: Learning with schools is problematic • Hole in the Wall: Learning without schools is problematic • We are the Hope: Hackers are really good at learning • Disrupting the System: Hackers are inventing education’s future
- 44. DISRUPTING THE SYSTEM ...this time, with Science!
- 45. THE HACKER ETHIC n. 1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing open-source code and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible….” Jargon file, v. 4.4.8
- 46. CREATE OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES • Wikipedia • StackOverflow, etc • FLOSS • Creative Commons • GitHub, etc. • Instructables, etc
- 47. CREATE OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES • Wikipedia • StackOverflow, etc • FLOSS • Creative Commons • GitHub, etc. • Instructables, etc
- 48. JOIN FORCES Hackerspaces LUG, 2600 meetup, Amateur Radio Club, DEF CON meetup Mentoring Teaching
- 50. HACK KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION • Study learning sciences (good place to start is ‘How People Learn’ by Bransford and Donovan, or “Building a Better Teacher” by E. Green) • Model expert learning • Use augmented reality • Invent something new
- 51. HACK KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION • Study learning sciences (good place to start is ‘How People Learn’ by Bransford and Donovan, or “Building a Better Teacher” by E. Green) • Model expert learning • Use augmented reality • Invent something new
- 52. INVENT THE FUTURE! In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete“ - R. Buckminster Fuller
- 53. BRICK IN THE WALL VS HOLE IN THE WALL Thank you Caroline D Hardin @carolinescastle caroline@ictwiki.org "I'm a future-hacker; I'm trying to get root access to the future. I want to raid its system of thought." — St. Jude
- 54. IMAGE CREDITS:
- 55. EPISTEMOLOGY IS A REALLY LONG WORD • ...this is a really short talk. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge and is also referred to as "theory of knowledge". It questions what knowledge is and how it can be acquired, and the extent to which knowledge pertinent to any given subject or entity can be acquired. (wikipedia)
Editor's Notes
- so if education is based on outdated theories for political reasons, implemented by bitter and angry teachers, for disorganized and unjust purposes: why would you ever voluntarily to subject yourself to school? Why do some hackers take classes? There’s a legitimate debate among hackers of the value of formal traditional education for learning programming, networking, and all the IT skills, Classes do let you offload: Finding and organizing the best learning resources (complete with expert errata), a mandatory structure to lean on with built in deadlines, and money and official transcripts on the line that frees up all your mental resources to learning the content.
- The piece of paper does still opens doors and keep your resume out of the round file It helps us meet potential empoyers, future co-workers, and gives us more people we can call at 2am on a Saturday when the server has crashed Finally, jumping through hoops shows a willingness to comply with authority and proceedures, which employers like to see
- Of all the disruptions that have huge caveats, hackerspaces are the most promising. I’ve heard a lot of people being skeptical, so I’m going to give you 4 big words and phrases you can throw down the next time someone tries to say that ‘real learning’ isn’t happening there, and you should be in school instead. As fallout boy would say, these are weapons in the form of words:
- Once we’ve freed content and joined forces, we need to Hack knowledge transmission and bring learning in the scifi age. When you teach, fight for change and innovation learn about cutting edge learning sciences. It’s super interesting. Not only will it make you a better teacher or mentor, it’ll also pay huge dividends every time you want to learn something. Learning Sciences grew out of computer science and the whole ‘computer as brain’ metaphor, and AI research. We need to reclaim it. outdated teachers pretend they know everything. Don’t be “the man”! Model figuring things out & asking questions. In IT it’s not about knowing everything, it’s about knowing how to figure everything out. Invite your students to contribute and participate, and enthusiastically learn from them. Students are so used to teachers posing as omnipotent experts, you may need to actually explain what you’re doing (next)
- We live in an age of Google Glass and augmented reality - embrace it! Having translations or constellations or birdsongs available through your phone really shakes things up in the whole idea of ‘knowing’. This is boundary we need to push, to reach a William Gibson future. All the cool new ed tech, we’ve been inventing! like khan academy, code combat, open badges, code avengers, hour of code, olpc, or even hole in the wall. If you have an idea, throw it out there! And if you want it to be robust and effective, use learning sciences!
- So, Free knowledge, join forces, and use science to re-invent knowledge. Despite all it’s problems, traditional formal education hasn’t had to change because it hasn’t had anything to seriously compete with. but Hackers are really good at inventing new ways to collaboratively learn. So if knowledge is power, then let’s re-claim and re-invent it.
- Thank you! A special Thank you to my mentor, Ming Chow for invaluable assistance and advice, my advisors Erica Halverson and Matthew Berland for teaching me awesome ideas about learning, Brendan O’Connor for encouraging me to submit the talk proposal, and my husband Grant Dobbe for listening to me work through these ideas many, many times
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- Caveat: So having had taught cs for a number of years, I saw how messed up the education system was, but didn’t really know how to go about fixing it. I figured i’d go take some classes in the school of education to brush up, and then go on my way to create the next big thing in ed tech. Then I found out how complicated (and fascinating) the learning sciences are. I’ve spent 2 years reading hundreds of pages of super dense academic theories, which I’m going to EILY5 in just 25 minutes = I’m summarizing. a lot. If you want more citations (or just to nit-pick), catch me after this talk, or on twitter or email.