LEARNING TO LEARN

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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?