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LEARNING TO LEARN
#nextchapter2014/03/22
Nicholas Schiller
or: JUST-IN-TIME LEARNING
or: DO-IT-YOURSELF
LEARNING
How We Learn(simplified)
Take a Class
Pass a Test
Do the Thing
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Example: HT Write a Research Paper(Informal Study) Comp textbooks teach very similar methods.
1. Go to the Library
2. Research, Read, & Take Notes
3. Review Notes, Outline Paper
4. Write Paper
Why Did All the Composition Textbooks Teach The Same Method?
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Not About “Old vs. New”
Think apprenticeship
Other kinds of hands-on-training
US Public Schools are not only way to learn
Just-In-Time
JIT in Industry
Warehouse Model is old news
Learning to Learn
“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” (Chesterton)
The new amateurism is not necessarily amateurish. (Shirky & Lessig)
WHEN CAN WE DO STUFF?
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JUST IN TIME LEARNING
Neil Gershenfeld, Fab Lab, Maker Movement
Today’s US Public School Model
How we learn is up to us.
WHEN CAN WE DO STUFF?
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LEARNING IS NOT SEPARATE FROM
DOING.
LEARNING
IS
NOT
SEPARATE
FROM
DOING.
LEARNING IS NOT SEPARATE FROM
DOING.
Quantified Learning
Taylorism / Skinnerism
Rational Choice Theory / Neoliberalism
“One Right Way to Learn”
Today
LEARNING TO LEARN
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
COMMUNITIES AS SOURCES
ASKING BETTER QUESTIONS
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Web
site:.edu, “”, *
Use different tools (Not just Google)
Library
Research Databases++
Video
Youtube is where it’s at
PRACTICE SEARCHES
COMMUNITIES ARE INFORMATION SOURCES
Doing & Knowing are kind of the same thing
Publishing process has been disrupted
“You mean I need MANNERS to learn stuff?”
INFORMATION FROM COMMUNITIES
ASKING BETTER QUESTIONS
Rubber Duck Debugging is magic.
No, really. It’s magic.
Magic, I tell you!
blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving/
QUESTIONS?DISCUSSION?