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Title: Invisible learning: The (r)evolution outside of the classroom | John Moravec | TEDxUCundinamarca
Published: 2017-08-18
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLmkq-DKw8
I was told %HESITATION when I was when I was a student always so that's once you write a book that we do talks useful is to this year the cover of your book to help them ignite to your talk about the book I am so once you're the cover from our foot first what gun invisible learning and it was from seven years ago what's right with
the I. crystal local and so there's grass is called a brand as I can see and this is the cover that we want to do I have his you can get us it was rejected arm but we wanted to we wanted to have a little fun because we're talking about the industrial model of education and how sometimes it just doesn't work out so well %HESITATION we
also want to point out that oftentimes we're producing package brains where you take on industrial jobs your bureaucratic jobs where jobs are defined in a very long time ago so high again my name is John and I would be lying to you if I said this isn't any value arm I went through year after year after year eventually got a doctorate in education all be lines
if it's intended LU I just think that we can do better because we do not need package brains anymore in the century so if I were to say the future belongs to nerds geeks makers dreamers and no maps we don't need those packets brains anymore now nomads are creative innovative people who can work it just but anytime anywhere and with anybody no man's contextualize what they
know and how old are you solve problems by playing with the no you new contacts now we project by the year twenty twenty that three five for some the western workforce will be nomadic and we see that within contract workers are people taking on multiple jobs multiple roles but the key thing remember here all is out sick in the past jobs in where he was to
be the same your word was the job that you had in our scene currently receive a split in the US that work is becoming some is very personal work easily belongs to you and you alone my work while singing it and myself a lot and we take on different jobs here and there's a lot of rock around no magically applying her knowledge in new contacts so
many people already know matic either focus on personal development which is which begs the question what do you want to bring into the world your future is oriented they're looking forward the prepared for accelerating technological and economic changes their focus on skills enablement mobility Neil work anytime or anywhere how can we contextualize what I know to solve new problems and the queue for education is that
we may enable these people to get their work done anything like agency when you think about self efficacy so there's not a way of looking at nomads all they can beat anybody at any age of the kids greedy adults like me people are retired other driving let networks working together to solve problems sharing what they learn on learning what they don't need anymore relearning what the
what they need I continuously learning we use the technologies propose simply that is why not just using tools just because we think they're cool because we got really cool new uses a marine for them you can touch lies knowledge to solve problems learn tacitly and explicitly and most importantly they're not afraid of failure because failing is one the best ways that we learn so when the
queues bought no matter no matter society is that we really celebrates how each of us are different so don't ask me any different why do all schools look the same so it's kind of crisis is not I look at this picture I think we all recognize that the school desk I think it was pulled share any other sort of universal things because schools pretty much look
the same because we're looking to produce the same people so who is hurt in schools the phrase now sit down shut up do what you're told right I think we've all heard this we've developed somehow cultures of all the mediums enforce compliance place in C. distrust fear anxiety but if we want a nomadic world we want people with skills that are much more adaptable people that
can really pursue their own passions in power just to pursue them passions we need more flexibility we need to create more breakers we need to accept humility within the system we need to build confidence within still we need to bring love into schools and we need to be courageous students and teachers administrators and other members of our communities so here's another way of looking at it
I think this is a band diagram what happens in school barely touches upon what we need this means we have to really read it rearing its our priorities and we'd expect kids to fit into these malls if you're not doing what you're told if you're not getting into the parameters of school exactly no we think there's something wrong with you maybe this means that you need
to be medicated even but maybe there's nothing wrong for kids maybe that this is something that we're seeing an illness from within the system really emerge so here's the bottom line it's all about power and we need to think about who is deciding what our kids are learning how our kids are learning what the expectations are for kids because I'm going to bet you that most
often the kids aren't having much of a say in that conversation someone present the theory for invisible learning and that is simply that we learn more and we do so invisibly when we separate structures of control restrict freedom and self determination from learning experiences invisible learning is not restraining structures of control and placing trust learners and shipping of wealth from the top down it was a
learner out becoming much more horizontal and inner structures and how we do things and how we learn and this trust piece is really important I'll get back to that so it would be like a power I plodded on an access you got a great here right I plod along the axis of agency and self efficacy urgency is simply being able to do what you want to
tell self efficacy is believing in yourself so get done what you wanted to and these things are critical now the goal for education and nomadic society is against it to work on getting kids to areas of high agency and high self efficacy where the goal is what brain is on that chart right now as we wanna be we want to create nomadic workers a quick anytime
anywhere it's just like anybody that is our goal should be but we're not doing that we're so focused on cans on control so the mainstream education we wind up being occupying this this area on the other two what was the bottom of the grid right we deny kids agency as much as we can we worry about control we have tests to measure how well kids are
are funny falling into this but sometimes kids are able to learn despite their education and develop a sense of self efficacy so we see then I shifted upwards plants there now this isn't all negative I think that there is tremendous hope here no invisible learning embraces the paradigm my braces with special learning from formal non formal informal and serendipitous morning sometimes we just do it right
sometimes formal education doesn't work here in Columbia so also dancing salt learning tell how to dance salsa is compulsory and primary education okay I think it's fantastic but not every kid learns salsa right so who's responsible parties I think it's also what happens the kids learn at home family takes over aunts and uncles come over and teach the kids also right user less formal ways of
learning and why does this work because it is okay to feel at home so how much do we learn that's invisible in our lives verses visible we really don't know and it's really hard to measure this stuff I John Seely brown about a decade ago estimated that the ratio is about five to one that is for every six things that we learn are only one of
them is through formal education everything else is done informally non formally for certificates like so what do you want to do what are other ways unschooling is a an area that is really immerse are there over the last two years and this is I mode where kids just simply leave school to learn on the wrong leaving the structure of control from the school all the union
structure someone telling them what how to learn for school in creating their own personal learning environments grown personal learning networks that's really hard another idea that's really that's really starting to blossom is democratic schools think of these as as a group unschooling right these are schools where by by their very mission kids have an equal say and also equal our responsibility and how their schools are
run and they help to get for this area of high agency and high self efficacy because they're very mission is from onset providing for that agency so here some are images from democratic schools in Europe all these are from France when the key elements that really emerge when kids decide what they want to learn and when they want to learn is that oftentimes they want engaging
play play is a very natural way for it for humans to learn is one the most basic ways that kids learn it's like a serious school they don't have %HESITATION tables and just like you find in a normal environment they got space to play and kids learn how to create rules together they learn social skills together they learn how to collaborate together was phenomenal shared governance
if you wanna take school seriously and you want all kids to take school seriously I need to have an equal say in how the school is run so here is a is a judicial council meeting taking place and frowns I think about it every can have equal say how a school is run including the finances who gets hired who gets fired or not just talk about
picking lunch is our chance or dislike of the colors the wall should be that's a really big thing it's not about having the freedom but also the responsibility to make to make the right decisions for the community mix ages you'll be hard pressed to find research that shows that seven year olds you only learn the seven year olds were eight year olds only learn with eight
year olds and the same way that the heart of fine but forty one year old like me would work best with only forty one year olds right kids are always teaching each other older kids of experiences and things that they can share with younger kids and vice versa as well and finally building cultures of trust and this is so important because we've driven trust one of
so much of what we've been doing it in school every build schools that trust freedom responsibility are a part of blood Mr seasonal things some wrap up here the theory for invisible learning is about attending to this problem that we have within our enabling kids to find their own way bringing in trusts invisible learning is a theory for self determination it's a theory for freedom it's
a theory for building flexibility it's a theory for building confidence it's a theory for treating mold breaker is of them schools how conformance it's a theory for bringing in love very for bring humility has there ever bring encourage so I just wanna wrap up with this quote from Albert Einstein he says I never teach my pupils I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they
