tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post4083532159343651950..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Learning off Water Fleas ( Daphnia)Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-38879170946229004462012-06-26T19:48:25.873+12:002012-06-26T19:48:25.873+12:00I agree anon. This idea of making education an eff...I agree anon. This idea of making education an efficient business is destroying time for creativity - which requires a senee of 'unknowability' - or messiness.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-92000569995754406562012-06-26T04:50:37.700+12:002012-06-26T04:50:37.700+12:00We no longer spend time with the time wasters.
Ed...We no longer spend time with the time wasters.<br /><br />Education has never been a business. Sure, some aspects have become just that such as English Language schools. But authentic education is always messy.<br /><br />The classic business plan imposes efficiency on an inefficient market. That’s a great way to make money, but hardly the way to find the future.<br /><br />For true education reform we need to roll back the past twenty years and search out those individual teachers who are still being consciously, enthusiastically inefficient. Where are they spending their precious time doing something they don’t have to do?<br /><br />This is exactly the same ‘playing’ phenomenon that has spurred great global leaps from video games to social networking, or from kite flying to America’s Cup sailing.<br /><br />In fact, today, inspired dissipation is everywhere. This phenomenon of ‘hackers’ converts free time into interesting ideas, concepts, and developments in a laid back collaborative environment where innovation is fun. Of course this approach doesn’t create the future, not all ideas fly and not all ideas guarantee success for those that use them. But they do give us a glimpse over the horizon, an opportunity to recognise that in this idea or that person there might be something worthwhile.<br /><br />The trouble is our political masters are desperately determined to impose a business education model on our society for all their own reasons rather than for our society's good.slopnzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851376975607733842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-70111749664150345692012-06-24T10:51:17.152+12:002012-06-24T10:51:17.152+12:00Bruce, the line about the asexual nature of school...Bruce, the line about the asexual nature of schools caught my eye. In top down scenarios, we do not want creativity and innovation. This forces compliance and conformity rather than conversation.Teacher as Transformernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-43325789721076849332012-06-23T17:00:53.423+12:002012-06-23T17:00:53.423+12:00Those water fleas have all the fun! A bit more int...Those water fleas have all the fun! A bit more interschool 'sex'( sharing ideas that is) is what we need as things are closing in on schools with all the top down control and conformity!<br /><br />Sounds like an interesting book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com