New Education Paradigm, and how it differs from the old education paradigm. The new standard through knowledge models. How our sense of life works in learning and education.
2. CONTENTS
Intro
What is Paracraft
How we teach? Part 1: facts
Model
Life
How we teach? Part 2: in depth
Standard
Power of Self-Directed EduPower of Self-Directed Edu
Sudbury for the mass
Uniqueness of Paracraft Edu
Theoretical Framework
Orgs and Links
4. Knowledge Models
Paracraft
Significant Experiences
Life
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Learning
Knowledge
It is not just about learning of the
knowledge, but more importantly it is
about learning how to learn, and get rich
experiences with what life is about.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.0 Paracraft Education
13. Equality
Feelings and Emotions
Thoughts and Ideas
Uniqueness and Diversity
Play and Fun
• Express yourself
• Touch others
• Create
Craftsmanship
• 3D
• Movie making
• Programming
Skills
02 Paracraft: Life
24. Express Life
Create Life
Self-Learning
navigate in a
complex life system
Paracraft
Self-Directed
Edu
Life
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Learning
Knowledge
By Life Center, we feel and sense the
space of life, we sense Significant
Experiences and build up Knowledge
Models . By Life Center, agile interaction
and layer by layer approach are possible.
It is all about space.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.1 Paracraft Education: Life
25. Knowledge Models
Paracraft
Significant Experiences
Life
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Learning
Knowledge
It is not just about learning of the
knowledge, but more importantly it is
about learning how to learn, and get rich
experiences with what life is about.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.0 Paracraft Education
30. How to teach?
• We don’t teach
• How Children learn
• Let children learn by themselves
31. Express Life
Create Life
Self-Learning
navigate in a
complex life system
Paracraft
Self-Directed
Edu
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
By Life Center, we feel and sense the
space of life, we sense Significant
Experiences and build up Knowledge
Models . By Life Center, agile interaction
and layer by layer approach are possible.
It is all about space.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.1 Paracraft Education: Life
33. • Paracraft Learning Center: Creative Space
– Make them learn by themselves, build a better
playground
– Observe and teach them how to learn
How to teach? Part 1
40. • Open a project by id
• Switch to edit mode, open up code block and
movie block to see
• Projects sharing platform
• Paracraft and NPL are Open Source
Transparency of Paracraft
43. • Mentors how to conduct a learning session
– Models: you can only teach knowledge that you have
1. Don’t give direct answers. Know the models, know
resources, point the direction
2. Ask other students
3. Demonstrate how to explore and learn
4. Improve the resources
– Significant Experiences: you can only teach what have
touched you before
• We record students and mentors’ Significant Experiences,
and share with each parent respectively
Student Learning Sessions
46. • What you plan to do today
– Parents can help write
Before the session: learning plans
47. • Students can write by themselves
• 21st century skills? Build your own knowledge
• Digitalize: Knowledge Engine
After the session:
What you have learned today
48. • No lessons. We have more types of lessons.
Lessons
https://keepwork.com/official/docs/teach/lessons/paracraft_centers
55. Knowledge Models
Paracraft
Significant Experiences
Life
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Learning
Knowledge
Paracraft itself is about building 3d
models and the programming in
Paracraft is also about building models.
Since the essential thing for Paracraft
Edu is to learn how to learn, building
knowledge models is the essential
process for us.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.2 Paracraft Education: Model
3D Models Programming
59. 1. Knowledge is model
– Knowledge Models in Paracraft
– Learning: from Significant Experiences to abstract
models
2. Paracraft builds models: models to models,
concrete to abstract
Model
60. • Knowledge is Personal
• Knowledge is Understanding
• Knowledge is the Whole
• Knowledge is Personal Understanding of the
Whole
• Knowledge is abstract models on neocortex,
and is built from Significant Experiences
Knowledge is Model
61. • Learning is not linear
• Constantly asking what models you are trying to
build, what SEs you don’t have
• The life centers to interact with, go agile
• Layer by layer
• Quick grasping of knowledge
• Melting together of knowledge, otherwise too
many things to remember
• Children and adults: from existing models
Learning by Models?
62. SEs and Models
Play
Accumulate SEs
Do projects
Accumulate SEs
Everyday life
Accumulate SEs from
everyday activities
Create your own
Create your own
models from SEs
Form whole
Form understanding of
the whole
Significant Experiences
Models
Apply
Apply knowledge is
applying models
Recognize
Recognize knowledge from
problems or students
Guide
Guide students according
to models and SEs
Problem Solving
Apply models
Feedback
Feedback on models,
new SEs
63. • Best teachers only give big models and
Significant Experiences
– Share Significant Experiences
– Where to gain Significant Experiences
• Resources
• Projects
• Stay with good teachers, recognizing their
models and Significant Experiences
Teaching by models
64. • Mentors how to conduct a learning session
– Models: you can only teach knowledge that you have
1. Don’t give direct answers. Know the models, know
resources, point the direction
2. Ask other students
3. Demonstrate how to explore and learn
4. Improve the resources
– Significant Experiences: you can only teach what have
touched you before
• We record students and mentors’ Significant Experiences,
and share with each parent respectively
Teaching by models
Student Learning Sessions
65. • Students and Mentors building their own
knowledge together
Equality
66. Model
Knowledge
Rich models
Knowledge are widely connected
Students can check their own models with
Students can contribute
Students
Learn by models, go agile
Evaluate by models and works
TeacherTeach by models
Recruit and evaluate by models and works
Teacher training by models
Certifying by models
Parents
Parents can understand and relate
Parents can participate in
Parents are learning as well
Better parents relations
03 Education by Model
Mentor Platform
pick
students
pick
mentor
67. 1. Knowledge is model
– Knowledge Models in Paracraft
– Learning: from Significant Experiences to abstract
models
2. Paracraft builds models: models to models,
concrete to abstract
Model
69. • Programmers are craftsman!
• They model!
• Memory/Images + Programming =
Programming
Programming Models
70. • Learning is to build models on neocortex
• From Significant Experiences to Models
• With models, you can learn in the agile way,
with life
Learning Models
72. • Paracraft is to create/express life
• Learning/education is about life
– Learning is to navigate in a complex life system
– SDE is about life
• Life is space: life centers
Life
What is Life?
73. • Beyond Biology
– Boundary
– Exchange with outside
– Response
– Adapt
– Metabolic
– Reproduce
– Basic Unit
– Layer
– Gathering
– Emerging
What is Life?
74. Express Life
Create Life
Self-Learning
navigate in a
complex life system
Paracraft
Self-Directed
Edu
Life
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Learning
Knowledge
By Life Center, we feel and sense the
space of life, we sense Significant
Experiences and build up Knowledge
Models. By Life Center, agile interaction
and layer by layer approach are possible.
It is all about space.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.1 Paracraft Education: Life
Feel of space
Feel
Feel
Programming: study of Life Center
76. • No compulsory
• Learning by one’s own needs, paces and ways
• Parents involvement: donating equipment
• Help students finding mentors
• Students participate in school management
• Equality, richness, self-initiative, interests, do ,
make change, focus , hardship, authentic,
challenge, experiences, observe, self-reflection
SDE is about Life
80. Knowledge and Teacher
Old Education Paradigm
• One textbook by a non-
professional
• Teach by teacher’s book,
learning mechanically: lesson,
homework, tests, (often fake)
projects
• Teachers having no models
• Teachers not touched
• Documents
• Teacher trying to maintain fake
authority
New Education Paradigm
• Many “books” from
professionals
• Learn organically
• Teachers with rich models
• Teachers touched many
times before
• Models built from
Significant Experiences
• Equality although teachers
have more abstract models
81. Parents involvement
Old Education Paradigm
• Parents don’t understand
– Separated by the so called
knowledge content, the pillar of Old
Education Paradigm
• Parents excluded of education,
education only belongs to children
• Parents not educated about
education
– it belongs to experts
New Education Paradigm
• Parents can understand
• Parents part of it
• Teach parents about
education
82. Teacher-Student Relation
Old Education Paradigm
• War with children, animal
tamers
• No related knowledge, try
to maintain an authority
• Teachers not learning
New Education Paradigm
• Fun and relaxed
• Easy for teachers with true
knowledge
• Learning together
– Best way to learn is to teach
• They are professionals, they
want to learn
– Learning about children and
about yourself
– Learning about learning
– Learning about education:
everyone needs to be parents
83. Teacher Training
Old Education Paradigm
• Teachers have no
professional knowledge of
the field, teach full time
• Validate and certify
teachers by testing with
standard knowledge
• Process: teacher college,
lessons
• No professional career. No
learning!
New Education Paradigm
• Teachers are professionals, the best
teachers, teach in spare time
• Validate and certify teachers by
models and past works
• Process:
– Read our brochure and past
digitalized records to get the idea
– Practice:
• Learn in the same format as students
in learning center
• Observe and help current
teachers/mentors
• Trial period, record learning sessions
• We provide feedbacks
• Part of career learning. Never stop
learning!
84. Online Learning, Distant Learning
Old Education Paradigm
• Fixed places: classroom
• Fixed time: lessons
• Learning separated from life
• Learning separated from
society
• Learning separated from
playing
• Books or documents are not
digitized knowledge
New Education Paradigm
• Flexible: Learn at any place
• Flexible: Learn at any time
• Learning in life
• Learning in society
• Learning while playing
• Significant Experiences and
Models are digitized
knowledge
85. • Distant Learning and Teaching
• Drops of time, learn all the time, learn anywhere
• Digitalized
– Find good teachers online, those who can best answer your
questions or give advices, or by their models
– Shared knowledge models, Rich knowledge models, Rich
Knowledge
– Regulate teachers, Provide feedbacks, Professional training
– Get feedbacks on the playground and how to improve
Online Learning made possible
86. • A lot more powerful
• Deep Reasons:
– True learning/education/knowledge is universal,
fun, not cut off from life, community and playing
– So learning and teaching can be connected, can be
done in real life, not fixed and can transform to
the other
– So online learning is possible
Why SDE is better
87. Do we need it?
•Significant Experiences
• Basic units of knowledge
•Models
Model
Build
complex life systems
using the basic units
Life
04 The New STANDARD
88. Life
Model
05 New Education Paradigm: Life Education
Rich Models
Teach many books
Mentors guide
Professionals?
Rich Knowledge
On the fly
Bound to students
interests and Activity
In Time
Always, sometimes on
the fly
Complex life system
always needs design
Design
Students building their
own knowledge
Personal
Sensing of Life Centers
Students sensing of knowledge
and their self
Teachers sensing of students
Education Design
Create works of life
Feel
91. • The ultimate goal is to understand life/self
– Cultivate strong learning capabilities – through
learning of many things
– Learn of Life
Life Education
93. • The Sudbury for the mass
– Same:
• Applied the same life principles
• Not compulsory, driven by interest (because of Paracraft)
• The same principle of teaching, good relation with students
– Different:
• Work with the current system, the old edu paradigm
– No curriculum. But parents want to know what being taught
» We need to outline knowledge, but by models
» We record what children and teachers learned for each session
• Models for both students and teachers
» Works
• Mainly work with Paracraft instead of many other types of activities
• Not many teachers
• Just part of students’ life
• Apply what you learned to other things in your life
• The new standard: model
• Teacher training:
• Scaling: this can scale
• Made possible by Paracraft and Knowledge Engine
What is Paracraft Edu?
94. • Will SDE work inside the old edu paradigm?
– Can restore and cultivate self-learning?
• Self-learning can work anywhere
• Apply life principles freely in the old edu context
– Can lead to good test scores?
• Self-learning can deal with non-optimal situations and make best out of it
– Can prove to be a much better biz model?
• With parents, teacher training, content producing
– Can scale?
• Teachers resource
• How will the process be?
– Can reach out and convert?
• Market force?
• Education Policy?
Questions for us
96. • Someone who truly understand self-learning,
with rich learning experiences
Do it right
97. Knowledge Models
Paracraft
Significant Experiences
Life
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Learning
Knowledge
Everything is about space. Life rises from
space, so we have life centers, and life
centers building up bigger life centers
and with multiple layers. Spatial thinking
is essential. We need to always feel of
space.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.3 Paracraft Education: Spatial Thinking
3D Space Modeling
98. Creative space: Spatial
Spatial Sensing, Spatial Thinking
3D Scenes and Models
Cultivate spatial sensing with 3D Scenes and
Models
Programming
Software Programming is to study the space, such
as modeling the space
Life Center
Life is space
Learning
Learning is free navigation in space, building
up spatial abstract knowledge models
Animation Movie
Space with time sequences
99. Creative space: Play, Learn, Create
L e a r n
P l a y
Life
C r e a t e Only three things to do
100. Knowledge Models
?
Significant Experiences
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
It is not just about learning of the
knowledge, but more importantly it is
about learning how to learn, and get rich
experiences with what life is about.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.4 Life Education
• Children like it
• Rich activity
• Rich knowledge
• Have modeling
• Practice spatial
• Have programming
102. • Life Center
• Degree of Life
• Life Generating Process
• Space
• Model
• Subject and Object Unification
– Feel of Space
Life Framework
Christopher Alexander
Pattern Language: OOP, Design Pattern
Nature of Order
104. • Life Framework applied to Computer
Science/Software Programming
• Life Framework applied to Education
• Life Framework applied to Management
• Life Framework applied to Biology and
Chemistry
• Life Framework applied to Physics
• Life Framework applied to Math
Life Framework