F R . J O M A R L E G A S P IG O D ’ S G U T S Y G E E K

Obsolescent means worn

out but still in USE

HIERARCHICAL

HIERARCHICALKnowledge divided into fields…kingdoms…ruled by people who are fit to teach (doctors) or to speak with (professors).

HIERARCHICALKnowledge divided into fields…kingdoms…ruled by people who are fit to teach (doctors) or to speak with (professors).

Academic achievement: ladders of “degrees” = step up ladders to knowledge

Knowledge defined by learned persons….in authority

Knowledge defined by learned persons….in authority

AUTHORS

Learning environment, design and experience reflected the infrastructure and processes of an industrial factory.

Standardization: standardised mass manufactured ‘facts”

Specializations: subjects, year groups, sequencing

Learning environment, design and experience reflected the infrastructure and processes of an industrial factory.

Standardization: standardised mass manufactured ‘facts”

Specializations: subjects, year groups, sequencing

Concentration: …criminals were rounded up and concentrated in prisons, the mentally ill rounded up in and put in “lunatic asylums”, and children rounded up and concentrated in schools, exactly as schools were concentrated in factories.

(Peter Drucker)

Centralization: districts, divisions, bureaus, departments – curriculum as well as strategies

What’s wrong with this picture?

“Schools are still modeled on a curious mix of the factory, the asylum and the prison... We are glad to see the end of the traditional factory; why should we expect the school modeled on it to be welcome to children?”

(Hargreaves)

Knowledge can’t be taught nor transmitted.

Knowledge is CONSTRUCTED.

Learning is indexed on experience.

Kids learn in different ways…multiple intelligences

Did you know?

Why Not?

OPEN Learning Spaces …connected to a community of Learners

Creativity is given as much importance as numeracy and literacy.

Teachers are designers of learning environment / experience rather than purveyors of information and content.

How can we prepare our kids for a future that we have not yet defined with a tools and strategies of a world that has been….let alone dead?

If you can Google it, why teach it?

End of Schooling…Beginning of Learning