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All in Education
Karatara is home to a remarkable little school called Eden Campus...and not much else. The school is a long way from self-sufficiency, but they have some electrifying ideas about getting there.
So, if the typical classroom is made for listening, what then would my problem-based, amorphous, flexible, energetic, chaotic classroom be made for?
Can you really have a movement if the people who start it have not defined themselves in contrast to the prevailing ideal with sufficient clarity to justify movement?
Our explorations may already be over-simplified, over-generalized and over-stepping the bounds of what we can actually learn from what we measure.
Perhaps taking passionate, more-convicted-than-you-could-possibly-be stands that move the discipline forward is worth looking arrogant, short-sighted, and foolish several decades down the line…
Lately, I feel as though I have been learning without thinking. Like I go directly from reading to writing because my schedule won’t allow for pause and sleep (and my body demands sleep.)
Kristen Cox is a vibrant, engaging woman—disarmingly confident in front of a crowd. She’s been an educator, a politician, an advocate and is currently raising both a teen and a toddler. Oh, yeah, and she’s blind.
In the realm of learning, questions are what bring people together, what they interact around, what stimulates conversation, debate... value creation. There's no reason to gather around content. Content itself is inert.
At some point, I am forced to admit that some really smart people believed this stuff; and that these ideas contributed to critical advances in the field; and that someday in the not-too-distant future, students will read about my theories and wonder how any sentient being could have convinced themselves the world worked that way.
