embracing uncertainty - rhizomatic learning

Embracing Uncertainty

Rhizomatic Learning in Formal Education.

Why do we teach?

Five things I think I think

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What are we actually trying to teach?1. Fire burns, don’t touch it?2. When people tell you not to do something, you

should listen to them?3. Hot is something you might want to check for?

Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with

uncertainty

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Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with

uncertainty2. The community can be the curriculum – learning

when there is no answer

Yes, networked learning, we know.

Enter the Rhizome

A special kind of network

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Some of the qualities that make rhizomes cool1. They can map in any direction from any

starting point2. They grow and spread via experimentation

within a context3. They grow and spread regardless of

breakage

Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with

uncertainty2. The community can be the curriculum – learning

when there is no answer3. The rhizome is a model for learning for

uncertainty

What kind of learning is it for?

I wouldn’t want my doctor learning that way!

”Successful health services in the 21st century must aim not merely for change, improvement, and response, but for changeability, improvability, and responsiveness.”Coping with complexity: educating for capabilitySarah W Fraser, Trisha Greenhalgh. 2001

“When you finally come to grips you can't solve today's problems using present methods, you take the lead to venture to the Complex Domain. As leader, you initiate a search and rally followers to find a new solution that will change the paradigm.”Change Management or Change Leadership?Gary Wong, Cognitive Edge Network 2010

Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with

uncertainty2. The community can be the curriculum – learning

when there is no answer3. The rhizome is a model for learning for

uncertainty4. Rhizomatic learning works in the complex domain

Doing it on purpose

Rhizomatic Learning in practice.

Five things I think I think1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with

uncertainty2. The community can be the curriculum – learning

when there is no answer3. The rhizome is a model for learning for

uncertainty4. Rhizomatic learning works in the complex domain5. We need to make students responsible for their

own learning (and the learning of others)

Sure dave, that’s brilliant. But this is India,tell me how it scales.

We need to measure

learning

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

Stop measuring

learning

Measure effort, engagement and connection. Allow learners to be responsible for - and measure their own - learning journey. Let the robots count what they can.

If we make the community the curriculum, membership becomes how we scale.

@davecormier