Showing posts with label Tinkering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tinkering. Show all posts
Jan 19, 2012
Quilting Bee, Design Studio, & Game Party
I appreciate Donald Schön and John Seley Brown's metaphor of an architecture studio. Watching my own class in a somewhat open environment, I'm wondering if other metaphors offer important elements to consider. What aspects from a quilting bee, sewing circle, video game party, book club, etc. might help students and teachers conceptualize an engaging learning "space"? Which aspects work only or best in face to face environments, which can work in virtual? Can they work asynchronously?
Feb 13, 2011
John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production
This video by John Seely Brown discusses many of the elements at the heart of BCS' Engage program.
- Have to foster the imagination first
- Create - Reflect - Share
- sharing - create peer based learning
- Studio Learning Environment
- multi age learning community
- best way to learn something is to teach it - Kids teach each other
- critique - Need to be open to criticism (from self, peers, and others)
- work in progress is public
- critiques are public
- Tinkering
- with Information
- with Knowledge
- with concrete things
- networked Tinkering with other people's stuff
- you have to test what you build
- authority comes from testing what you build and whether it works and is as good as it could be
- Allows us to bootstrap our own knowledge
- maybe - kids identities will come from what they have created AND others have built on
- Technology
- enables us to build distributed communities of practice
- allow you to create and to remix
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