Different perspectives
A perceptive outlook informs wise action across education, business and community activity. Conceptual principles are generated which help guide different ways of acting. To promote the dialogue required a number of different perspectives follow.
Perspective # 1 - Balance and direction
In recent times antennae have become hypersensitive to
the uncertainty of challenging times. As a consequence,
calls for conformity to alleviate the unease have become
seductive. The notion that one size fits all has had a field day.
In this scenario, arguments for prescriptive programs
accompanied by standardized accountability measures
have acquired persuasive appeal.
The 'chair' of conformity, compliance and competition,
depicted in the diagram opposite, has become full, some
people would say it has overflowed. With the 'chair' of curiosity, creativity and community downplayed.
Perhaps the two 'chairs' need to be balanced in their significance? Or, may be a rapidly changing world demands a shift towards curiosity, creativity and community.
'The best way to predict the future is to create it'.
Abraham Lincoln
Perspective # 2 - Changing the paradigm
No two people or communities are the same. They differ in expectation and aspiration, they represent different personalities and ways of behaving, and they possess varied talents and interests. The knowledge, capabilities and cultural values they enjoy are diverse.
Ken Robinson puts the challenge for education succinctly.
“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions".
More food for thought
Sir Ken Robinson - Author, speaker and international advisor on education
Changing Education Paradigms
Jared Cooney Horvath - Neuroscientist and educator with expertise in human learning
Deep processing through teaching others
Kath Murdoch - Experienced teacher, author, university lecturer and popular consultant
Ken Robinson - Author, speaker and international advisor on education
How to escape education's death valley
Yimin Yang - Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Western University, Ontario, Canada
Digital Literacy Skills to Succeed in Learning and Beyond
On Multiple Intelligences
Julia Dhar - Behavioral economist, Boston Consulting Group and educational consultant
How to have constructive conversations
John Harris - Software developer and a technology teacher at Simonds U-Connect School in Langley, B.C
How Students Become Creators Instead of Consumers of Technology
Prakash Nair - Director Education Design International, school architect, entrepreneur, writer and public speaker
Design for Learning in the Creative Age
Martin Scott -
Executive Principal at Yew Chung Education Foundation, Yew Chung Education Foundation, Central & Western District, Hong Kong SAR
Learning communities
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Questions in Smart Digital Environments. (2019). Front. Educ., https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00098
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Co-construction of Question-led Inquiries. (2021). In M. M. T. Rodrigo, S. Iyer, & A. Mitrovic (Eds.), 29th International Conference on Computers in Education Conference, ICCE 2021 - Proceedings (Vol. 2, pp. 85-91). (29th International Conference on Computers in Education Conference, ICCE 2021 - Proceedings; Vol. 2). Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. https://icce2021.apsce.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ICCE2021-Vol.II-PP.-85-91.pdf
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Questions and appraisal of curiosity (2021). In E. Brooks et al., (Eds) DLI 2021, LNICST 435, pp 1-17. Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunication Engineering. Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06675-7_16
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Question sense, inquiry, and inventiveness. (2024). Prospects 54, 23–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-023-09634-z
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"We need to get out of the valleys and up onto the mountain tops to perceive ways forward".
"There is nothing so practical
as a good philosophy in determining ways forward".
Questions, curiosity, inquiry, inventiveness, collaboration, cooperation, learning, teaching, expertise, talents, community, development, challenge, co-design, co-construction