In his A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, researcher John Seely Brown (@jseelybrown)
explores imagination, play, and innovation as they can influence
current education paradigms. In a brief video talk, he breaks down some
of his theories:What could we do better in schools today? ... We have to kind of find a way to get today's kids to embrace change. We have to get them to want to constantly learn new types of things. And the catch, to me, is somehow we have to find a way to get kids to play with knowledge. To play with finding information. To play with creating knowledge. Not always believing that it's already known, but basically being willing to believe that maybe they should be able to create knowledge on the fly by experimenting with things.And...
So I think we can construct new kinds of learning environments. Not only are we learning with and from each other, not only are we teaching each other as well, but we're actually understanding that authority - to some extent - lies in whether or not this thing I've just built is as good as I think it could be ....What suggestions do you have for students and teachers who wish to implement more "tinkering" and "playful" scenarios in the classroom and in life? Please post in the comments below. For Maria Popova's (@brainpicker) article on A New Culture of Learning available on Brain Pickings (@brainpickings), please click here.
Description of image: A child "tinkering" away. Photo located at graphics8.nytimes.com. Kildonan and its IP program claim no ownership over the above picture.
No comments:
Post a Comment