My life, my interests, my research
Some random thoughts:
- E-learning doesn’t change the way we think about learning.
- We are working with different materials because it give us different perspective on issues.
- People needs to relay on themselves on what they know – Taking control of their own learning.
- There is a shift of control and a shift of access and responsibility. The same is happening in health system.
3 books:
- Constructivism for complicated concepts.
- Constructionism in practice
- Constructionism
Known for his critique of modernization and the corrupting impact of institutions, Ivan Illich’s concern with deschooling, learning webs and the disabling effect of professions has struck a chord among many informal educators.
Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.
Ivan Illich Deschooling Society (1973: 9)
Links
Ivan Illich:
Very useful page with links into key obituaries and to his writings.
Includes e-texts of Deschooling Society and Tools for Conviviality.
Thinking after Illich:
some essays of Ivan Illich and those of some of his friends and collaborators.
Ivan Illich: writings on the web:
Useful listing of links from PreserveNet.
I am exploring community for designing prototypes. Aprentship may motivate people to be in this kind of community.
Denim is a package manager written in Java for group collaboration on interface design. DENIM is a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design. DENIM supports sketching input, allows design at different refinement levels, and unifies the levels through zooming.
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