A NEW CULTURE OF LEARNING

New culture of learning = changing and transforming how we think about info, play, and imagination and integrating those themes into our learning

3 PRINCIPLES OF THE NEW CULTURE OF LEARNING

• Old ways of learning can't keep up w/ changing world
• New technology is making peer-to-peer learning easier & natural
• Peer-to-peer learning helps shape how we participate within technology
• What is peer-to-peer learning ?
• Everyone is on the same level; motivates a passion

EVIRONMENT AND LEARNING

• Environment should be a key factor in how we view learning
• Environment should thrive and create more change
• Therefore we need to be flexible so we can change with culture
• Need to CREATE alongside culture, not just respond to it
• Because we learn within the world, not about the world

"Embracing change means looking forward to what will happen next, viewing the future as a new set of possibilities, making the most of living in a world of motion"

WE ARE NOT MACHINES

• Mechanistic learning = series of steps needed to be mastered
• The goal: learn as much as possible, as fast as possible
• NO, that should not be the case
• Imagination ➡️ power of unlimited possible info resources to create something personally meaningful
• MEANING ➡️ more motivation & creativity ➡️ new resources

"In the teaching-based approach, students have to prove they 'get it'. In the new culture, we embrace what we don't know, come up with better questions and ask more questions in order to learn more. The goal is to take the world in and make it part of our selves."

"Children use play and imagination to make sense of new, rapidly evolving world. The challenge is to find a way to marry structure and freedom to create something new altogether."

PERSONAL REFLECTION

• Really good, supported the concepts with actual stories
• Having meaning in what you're learning is really important to me
• Mechanistic learning and standardized tests = NOT learning, its their checklist
• Checklists do not give us the ability to be creative; we're all "the same"
• In my opinion, we need to embrace change