Changing the myth of education, from tree to rhizome.

1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/245086056/
rhizomes &
open learning

6. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaska_Railroad_tracks.jpg

7. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/245086056/

10. Learning about trees
What myth have we inherited for learning?

11. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Johann_Heinri
ch_Pestalozzi.jpg
Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi teaches
Switzerland to read
1798AD

12. 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_children

13. 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]
Same book 

15. 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

16. What was it built to do?

17. We need people to read

19. Success is finishing

20. The myth I inherited
A closed system designed to impart
things

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22. Learning like weeds
A myth for learning in a time of abundance

23. Rhizomes. They are many.
They are aggressive and resilienthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwsnortheast/5951029777/sizes/l/in/photostream

24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/98857801@N00/214523
They are
difficult to
contain.

25. They follow their own paths.
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/87/97/879791_d5d8e306.jpg

26. http://www.metanoialiving.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/success-really-looks-like.png

27. The Rhizomatic
Learner
A special kind of network

29. People, ideas, thoughts…

30. Learner A starts with some connections

31. Learner B has others

32. Makes new connections

33. Make their own map

34. A messy, uncertain map

35. The Rhizomatic
Syllabus

36. Learner contract
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neosnaps/2596044654/sizes/o/in/photostream/

37. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Plastic_tape_measure.jpg

38. We need to measure
learnin
g

39. The fact that you need it doesn’t make it possible

40. The Rhizomatic Course

42. Try one thing
weekly challenges

43. Cheating as Learning

44. Enforcing Independence

45. Embracing Uncertainty

46. Planned Obsolescence

47. Community As Curriculum

48. What are we teaching for?

49. Community as both vehicle for
curriculum and goal of curriculum
The community IS the curriculum

50. The myth we could
build
An open system designed to help
people grow

52. @davecormier
davecormier.com
davcormier@upei.ca
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