Posts by Jackie Clark
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to recordari,
Of course I meant men as well - but I think you'll find, smarty arse, that in the days when that particular phrase was popular, men didn't bring food, they brought money, and their fine, manly selves.
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I was this close to posting Ruby video. This close, I tell you.
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to Russell Brown,
That’s what I thought. We need more food at these things…
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So is it ladies-a-plate?
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Oh I am so tempted to abuse this attach button.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Russell Brown,
I am never one to bash the Police. I think they do a fantastic job most of the time, but it seems that occasionally they get the blinkers on and can't bear to be wrong. For this boy's sake, I hope someone steps in and stops this nonsense. It must be really distressing for him, and for his family.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to recordari,
Well yes. Best strategy ever to clean up the sandpit? On yer marks, get set, go!
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Lilith __,
Small children are very useful as slaves. Really. I can get most kids to do what I want. But then I'm not afraid of using a vaguely scary face.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Bart Janssen,
that's about self directed learning, Bart - as I said, if the disposition is there, the learning follows
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I know. But seriously, I want to bring out a point that I don't think has been made yet. Not about privilege (my Mangere investigations are still ongoing), but this idea of schooling people. The idea of learning, itself. Because I really think it would be remiss of me not to try and tackle our understanding of what learning is. In my view, and the view of many learned researchers and practitioners, meaningful (ie the stuff that sticks) learning is about time, repetition and context. In this kindergarten we use the concept of tuakana/teina, which strictly speaking talks to older/younger siblings and that relationship, but in teaching terms is used to refer to reciprocity of knowledge, the idea that we can all learn from each other - teacher and student swap roles almost constantly. So learning becomes about relationships and about understanding where these people who come to our kindergarten every day come from. What their story is. That's the contextual stuff. Then there's the time and space factor. If you give a learner their space, the time to explore their surroundings (metaphorical or literal), to find their comfort level, to seek out their own challenges, the knowledge gained is more deeply embedded. The repetition factor is about something, of course, being experienced over and over again. Now, you may say that adults learn differently from children, and in some ways they do - but I have found that at the most basic levels, we all learn in much the same way. Meaningful learning only really occurs when we have good relationships with the people we are learning from, when we have the time and space to explore particular knowledges for ourselves, and when the knowledge we want to acquire is accessible for us to mull over again and again. Learners also need to possess certain dispositions - two of the main ones are perseverance and the ability to engage with the subject matter. So having said all that, what is my point? That when there is something to be learned, it is not what we believes needs to be learned that is important but the beliefs and dispositions of the learner. How you get that learning to happen is a very complex matter. But it is my view, that you cannot "school" anyone and expect any meaningful learning to occur.
Okay - lesson over.