Making Smarter Employees with SDL Current trends impacting SDL (presentation slide): - Today's workplaces require constant learning, new skills, and faster knowledge transfer - Formal classroom training is costly and time consuming - Online tools provide a more effective and individualized delivery of continuous training
Experiential Learning Model (David Kolb, 1984) - Applications mainly in business and management - Influenced by John Dewey and Jean Piaget
Garrison's (1997) three dimension model (lecture slides, 11/13/18)
Necessity
Seymour Papert (Constructionism) - Project and discovery-based learning - Teacher as facilitator - Invented programming language for kids (LOGO) - "No one understands my ideas as well as Papert." - Jean Piaget
Discovery
20% Time in Education
Online Learning Six Principles 1) Learning sequences 2) Instant feedback 3) Mastery-based learning 4) Learn at your own speed 5) Gamification 6) Peer learning
Learning Management Systems Ex. CourseNetworking
MOOCs (lecture slides, 11/13/18)
Simulations/VLE
Google Cardboard/Expedition
Toys that Make Worlds (Will Wright)
Augmented Reality
Blended Learning
SDL Learning Fundamentals (Peter Grey) 1. Education is the child’s responsibility 2. Unlimited time to play [to develop a passion] 3. Time to play with the tools of the culture 4. Caring adults that are helpers not judges 5. Free age mixing of children/adolescents 6. Immersion in a democratic community
How We See SDL (Akilah Richards) "We trust that children are naturally driven to acquire empowering knowledge and skills, mostly through play and exploration...Choice and natural connection are our focus, not curriculum and comparison.”
Unschooling/Worldschooling: Children do not attend a specific school location
Student-centered democratic schooling: School exists as a place, but students have choice and agency over what they do and learn and over how school is run (Ex. Sudbury Schools)
Community-centered (learning coops): Physical space, but children have freedom to do and learn what they want; community is involved and might work together with students to fill a need community has or work on a project
Accelerated Learning (Jonathan Levi)
Steps for SDL 1) Set goals 2) Make a plan 3) Monitor your learning 4) Seek help if needed 5) Reflect on progress
Motivation
Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic
The Revolution in SDL (Sean Bengry) “We are the catalysts for our own knowledge gathering—and through that, our own performance...We used to think that knowledge was in the head of a learner; now we know it’s in the network. We’re becoming a hive mind.”
"[Jailhouse lawyers] are self-taught, spending long hours in the prison law library. With no access to the internet, they read outdated law books and case law on CD-ROMs. 'The reality of being a jailhouse lawyer is it takes intensive legal study, just the same way it does for lawyers on the outside'...'It’s an incredibly difficult endeavor.'
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective "Laufer has spent the last decade working to liberate life-saving pharmaceuticals from the massive corporations that own them. Laufer has no formal training in medicine and he’ll be the first to tell you he’s not a doctor."
