I like to share this inspiring videoclip about a school dropout named William (not out of choice but force by circumstances) in managing his own learning that serves to benefit the community around him, and possible for the whole world to take lesson from his endeavour.
I was motivated to share this because of a discussion I had about pedagogy in 121 computing. Wikipedia has an interesting argument against pedagogy. It sees learning as "a process people do, not a process that is done to people; they affirm this is true of everyone and is a fundamental principle". William demonstrates this point in the video. So the criticism against pedagogy is: Why are we force-feed a process to get people to learn when learning is a natural, self-engender process emerging from people need to fill in gap for knowledge?
With regard to Knowledge Forum and knowledge building pedagogy, I wonder which one came first and lead the other? Did Marlene and Paul come up with the pedagogy first before working on the Knowledge Forum platform? Or did their work on the platform first and then "discover" the pedagogy? Which is driving which?
Working on finding out what pedagogy lend itself well in 121 computing environment is a great idea. Still, we have to aware that sometime new pedagogy may emerge from learning in 121 computing environment that we may not anticipate at all. For that to happen, it is always good to allow for natural, self-engender and spotaneous learning to happen in 121 computing environment, very much like how people learn informally. Try to understand how it works and then work out features in the 121 computing learning environment to further enhance it.
In this way we do not enforce on learner a process on how they should learn but let them express how they want to learn in 121 computing learning environment and work on enhancing their own pedagogies. We may end-up having a learning environment supporting multiples pedagogies, all come out from and customised by learners for their own learning.
Do you see this possible?
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Thanks for sharing this and your thoughts...I appreciate the "thinking" that you've shared.
ReplyDeleteOne challenge I feel is that an organisation, the MOE, is attempting to take an active part in CREATING an environment; allowing for any natural self engender process may not be well suited in this case.
Still one can hope and try to bring this about.