For homework to prepare for week 6 we had to watch the following video and here are my notes from viewing this:

Connected Learning - The experience of education re-imagined

Reading/ Video - Week 6 Homework

Film by Nic Askew

Supported by the MacArthur Foundation

Key Questions/ Learnings discussed in Video:

How might education come to life if children were to possess a burning need to know?

Might we all have a part to play?

Might this digital age hold the possibility of bringing us closer together?

Nichole Pinkard - Professor DePaul University

There is no longer a promised future for all Kids
We need to educate everyone to be creative and to think about things
Overhaul our education system
Overhaul how we think, how we think we learn and who's capable of learning
The challenge is that there is so much there and so how do we focus on certain things to use - no longer the old way - we will all be learning the same way

David T Goldberg - Professor University of California - Irvine

Some of our institutions have failed us
Finding a way so that our learning institutions no longer fail us
They need to become environments, ecologies, sites, spaces etc that engage, interest and excite

Connie Yowell - The Direction of Education - the MacArthur Foundation

Fundamentally education is wrong because it's starting up the wrong questions
Education systems now starts with outcomes - it starts with goals, content and areas we want children to learn
Doesn't matter who the kid is as long as we are going on pace through the material
Our core question should be “What's the experience we want our kids to have?”
As soon as you start with - is the child engaged?
How do you create a kids with a NEED to KNOW attitude or drive?
In schools we decontextualise what they are learning
Students are learning everywhere now not just at school - Part because of digital media and part because they always have
We have a broad sense of ideas and principles that need to be at the core of learning and need to be at the table of 21st century learning
This is a work that is always in progress

Mimi Ito - Cultural Anthropologist

We are now used to giving the responsibility of learning to professionals instead of looking at it being part of the fabric of our interactions
Students need to find a mentor or person that will help them develop a sense of purpose, focus them on what's important etc
How can we use social media/ social connections to bring people and learning together - who want to learn together
Change from delivering content from a single source to many listeners
Tapping into the expertise out there… anyone can help anyone with anything

Katie Salen - Professor DePaul University

All the groups in the world can help the learning of any particular young person - Churches/ Sport clubs etc
Open up the question of “Who contributes?”
Who is ultimately responsible for help you people?