The problem is that it perturbs peoples' ideas of what learning looks like.
The problem is that it isn't linear.
The problem is that it demands learning new skills.
The problem is that it is not controllable.
The problem is that it does not have predictable outcomes.
This is learning.
This is me reflecting on learning process.
This is the outcome of a process which is a process....
Where the hell is this going next?
I am excited to find out.
New people, new encounters, new applications, new experiments, new risks, new adventures...
After a crazy week of connecting, of dialogue, of experiment, of pushing things and myself and probably the students to the edge, I returned to Storify my apparently chaotic work (even to me - and that's saying something).
We need to order, to reflect, to summarise, to digest, to learn....
We are the world. We are working for a better world. We are the Care Bears.
HA HA HA.
BULLSHIT
What we need is not competition it is more cooperation.
Oh Ya Right.
Can I win at the cooperation game?
The generation game
We were invited to a barbecue in Manchester.
The family was the most politically right on family one could imagine meeting.
The parents lived in adjoining houses, they had separated harmoniously, they remained closest cosiest neighbours for the kids.
They had opened up a door between the two houses in the attic so that the kids could go from one house to the other seamlessly.
I learnt that competition in their kids' schooling was discouraged.
I loved the vegan barbecue.
I have never in my life met a more obnoxiously competitive kid in my life than their elder son.
He refused to lose at cricket, he refused to lose at eye spy with my little eye,.
He refused to be served with quiche, crisps, a cake he didn't want. He hit his little sister.
When I think of the word BRAT he outBRATs John McEnroe hands down in my BRAT pack of BRATicons.
CO-LEARNING?
"You can not be serious maan."
Child, teacher, student takes/seizes/grabs [select appropriate term] tennis racket, text book, or other object and slams it down on the table, grass, ground, head of brother.
I just thought that I would play Devil's Advocate for a while. I enjoy that playing Devil's Advocate. It is a fun game.
Co-learning Devil
Kids don't want to learn together, sure they might want to learn on their own in their playing but what they want more than anything is to win love, attention, money.
Most teachers don't become teachers because it is their dream job.
They become teachers because they feel secure in continuing in school, a place where they understand the rules and want to become teacher in a School Pantomime. They are the ones who stand in front of the classroom and take attendance.
They pretend they are not teaching for the long holidays and to be able to look after the kids.
Most kids don't want to learn at school, they are not curious.
Kids want to be like blasé big brothers/sisters/fathers/mothers/football players/gangsters.
They want to play on their Nintendos and not to tidy their bedrooms.
Sharing?
Co-tidying?
HA, HA, HA.
Just give us more play-time and top marks to please the parents.
Have you seen my cool new ..............................
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I have better marks, a better job, a better life, a better car than .....[you, him, her, them]
