Comments on: Systematic Change Part 2: Unlearning your community http://www.thethinkingstick.com/systematic-change-part-2-unlearning-your-community/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=systematic-change-part-2-unlearning-your-community Educator Consultant Author Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Social Networking Workshop for Parents « The Thinking Stick http://www.thethinkingstick.com/systematic-change-part-2-unlearning-your-community/#comment-3651 Social Networking Workshop for Parents « The Thinking Stick Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:02:27 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=798#comment-3651 [...] I’ve talked about this before, that for the first time in the history of education we not only have to spend time on the students in our charge, but on re-educating our community as well on what it means to learn in today’s world. [...] [...] I’ve talked about this before, that for the first time in the history of education we not only have to spend time on the students in our charge, but on re-educating our community as well on what it means to learn in today’s world. [...]

]]> By: Turning Education on Its Head « ToGa Learning http://www.thethinkingstick.com/systematic-change-part-2-unlearning-your-community/#comment-3650 Turning Education on Its Head « ToGa Learning Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:37:29 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=798#comment-3650 [...] Education on Its Head In reading a recent blog post by Jeff Utecht, he stated that to change the educational systems in which we are working to be [...] [...] Education on Its Head In reading a recent blog post by Jeff Utecht, he stated that to change the educational systems in which we are working to be [...]

]]> By: Jeff Plaman http://www.thethinkingstick.com/systematic-change-part-2-unlearning-your-community/#comment-3649 Jeff Plaman Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:49:50 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=798#comment-3649 Jeff this is a very timely post as we are struggling with the same theme this year in our school as I imagine are loads of others. One thing that struck me as interesting is how it's possible that this "industrial age" model of education has managed to hang around so long while everything else that we knew about that time has been demolished? I think you've hit the nail on the head here and explained exactly why. It's because "we're all experts." Everybody have experienced school and therefore "know it." The most difficult part here will be to forget and let go. That won't be easy because in a lot of ways, the school is the center of the community it serves even more so maybe that the GM plant that shut down due to automation, or the TV assembly line that closed due to globalization. What will it take for us to retool our education factory before we're blindsided by something like iSchool? Are smart enough to stay ahead of the wave before it breaks on the shore and we are swept to the depths of irrelevance? I'd like to think so, but then, institutional history is a powerful thing to change. Jeff this is a very timely post as we are struggling with the same theme this year in our school as I imagine are loads of others. One thing that struck me as interesting is how it’s possible that this “industrial age” model of education has managed to hang around so long while everything else that we knew about that time has been demolished?
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head here and explained exactly why. It’s because “we’re all experts.” Everybody have experienced school and therefore “know it.”
The most difficult part here will be to forget and let go. That won’t be easy because in a lot of ways, the school is the center of the community it serves even more so maybe that the GM plant that shut down due to automation, or the TV assembly line that closed due to globalization.
What will it take for us to retool our education factory before we’re blindsided by something like iSchool? Are smart enough to stay ahead of the wave before it breaks on the shore and we are swept to the depths of irrelevance?
I’d like to think so, but then, institutional history is a powerful thing to change.

]]> By: Elizabeth Wargo http://www.thethinkingstick.com/systematic-change-part-2-unlearning-your-community/#comment-3648 Elizabeth Wargo Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:22:49 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=798#comment-3648 Jeff, Very well put! Two words stand out to me: SYSTEMATIC TIME--specific time is allotted to conversations and learning It seems that these two concepts are at the root of attempting to keep up with change. Jeff,
Very well put! Two words stand out to me:

SYSTEMATIC

TIME–specific time is allotted to conversations and learning

It seems that these two concepts are at the root of attempting to keep up with change.

]]> By: Toby Fischer http://www.thethinkingstick.com/systematic-change-part-2-unlearning-your-community/#comment-3647 Toby Fischer Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:11:40 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=798#comment-3647 Very well said. I was going to write on the same topic in my next post, but your words are exactly what I was thinking. To make change happen, the stakeholders need believe we need change. What exactly are you doing to sell the stakeholders that we need change? Very well said. I was going to write on the same topic in my next post, but your words are exactly what I was thinking.
To make change happen, the stakeholders need believe we need change. What exactly are you doing to sell the stakeholders that we need change?

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