[Xmca-l] Re: remote_online learning?

Tue May 19 12:21:10 PDT 2020

Mike - thank you again - particularly for access to the culturalpraxis site
- I can read now Andy Blunden's
"The coronavirus pandemic is a world perezhivanie." It will / should allow
me to understand the perezhivanie wordfactexperience in a way that I hadn't
picked up on so far.
Best
Tom

        BoWen

On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 19:00, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Tom-   Young note just happened to hit my funny bone, and the words
> spilled out.
> The more people who are willing to use this crisis to help understand what
> possible new forms of
> education could create next generations able to flourish in 2030, the
> better, Tom.  Better to think of
> it as an open field than a brick wall. There are people writing on
> culturalpraxis who have started the
> process.
> mike
>
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:41 AM Tom Richardson <
> tom.richardson3@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike Cole
>> Thank you for your historically and intellectually copious reply.
>> I shall go on listening to the Chat project and if I'm as curious as I
>> could be, actually reading LVs work, and stop being a mere 'voyeur' of the
>> social and intellectual interaction that has intrigued me for so long.
>> Hey ho
>> Best
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>         BoWen
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 17:49, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Tom Richardson
>>>      This topic has been the front and center in the "Re-generating Chat
>>> Project" that has just finished its
>>> planned two year efforts that focused on the challenges to human
>>> development, and theories of "Development
>>> in the Anthropcene.  Two months ago, the word Anthropocene was replaced
>>> by the code word, covid-19, a pandemic.
>>> Both crises pose huge challenges to theories of development as well as
>>> to actual development of huge numbers of people around the  world.
>>>      The MCA-linked website, CulturalPraxis currently has a number of
>>> essays on the challenges of this historical moment, and the opportunities.
>>>       In the United States, the crisis has deschooled society in the
>>> most dramatic way one can imagine -- A way that literally forced
>>> a massive re-mediation of human life.  Education, the wheel house of
>>> most members of this discussion over the years,
>>> is now a family affair big time. Simulaneously, home-worksite relations
>>> have been disassembled,  both modes and relations of production are getting
>>> a shock that is crumbling institutions (home, school, work,).
>>>
>>> We can really get the feel of Roy D'andrade's comment that doing social
>>> science is like studying rocks in a rockslide.  This rockslide moves a warp
>>> speed and its invisible.
>>>
>>> Remediation of existing classroom structures is what we have been about
>>> for 100 years.
>>> Seems like there has never been a more appropriate time to start
>>> providing working models of effective practices that do NOT
>>> assume that things will return to Christmas, 2019.
>>>
>>> Thanks for asking.
>>> mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:07 AM Tom Richardson <
>>> tom.richardson3@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings Xmca-ers
>>>> I would   like to raise a question.
>>>> In the article by Naomi Klein linked below, apart from all the major
>>>> questions about  our futures  - personal freedom, health protection,
>>>> democratic control and the power of Big Digital Tech_AI, international
>>>> competition etc. that she raises, I wondered what from a Vygotskyan
>>>> approach to child/human development/education can / should be a reply to
>>>> these sentences on the 'home schooling' that has (or hasn't) been
>>>> happening  recently:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Indeed, Schmidt has been relentless in pursuing this vision. Two weeks
>>>> after that article appeared, he described
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtAyGVuRQME__;!!Mih3wA!VRgkzssOuSyNvpVQWR2QH7dShhiXD5eWtYs2HahNwv_pKUU7G9GOQZMrzIpGsa_-KDBGFw$> the
>>>> ad-hoc home schooling programming that teachers and families across the
>>>> country had been forced to cobble together during this public health
>>>> emergency as “a massive experiment in remote learning”.
>>>>
>>>> The goal of this experiment, he said, was “trying to find out: how do
>>>> kids learn remotely? And with that data we should be able to build better
>>>> remote and distance learning tools which, when combined with the teacher …
>>>> will help kids learn better.” "
>>>>
>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic__;!!Mih3wA!T12x_u95bIxYcksCKlMgLU4qYgGgx-cqrBcR_uu5Yn5Am0O9OMOc1sxghV0UVmwgfQCRFA$ 
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic__;!!Mih3wA!VRgkzssOuSyNvpVQWR2QH7dShhiXD5eWtYs2HahNwv_pKUU7G9GOQZMrzIpGsa-SnnFGDg$>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just asking
>>>> Tom Richardson
>>>> Middlesbrough UK
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> "How does newness come into the world?  How is it born?  Of what
>>> fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made?" Salman Rushdie
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>>> For archival resources relevant to the research of lchc.ucsd.edu.
>>> For narrative history of LCHC:  lchcautobio.ucsd.edu.
>>> For new MCA-related website see: culturalpraxis.net
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://culturalpraxis.net__;!!Mih3wA!V4rtgUKjjshdiOxbIML_kuerunhUbHYomcCKiRVA5FkPs1WJIJwbuavyFoG613bJeWFP-g$>
>>> .
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> "How does newness come into the world?  How is it born?  Of what fusions,
> translations, conjoinings is it made?" Salman Rushdie
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> Cultural Praxis Website: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://culturalpraxis.net__;!!Mih3wA!T12x_u95bIxYcksCKlMgLU4qYgGgx-cqrBcR_uu5Yn5Am0O9OMOc1sxghV0UVmxZ-rtK9A$ 
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> Re-generating CHAT Website: re-generatingchat.com
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://re-generatingchat.com__;!!Mih3wA!RBUVfeKgIkRZBMKvlCZK5BY_Un7M6KYzxsJEz5KOvLWR9-xV2uvzdb977BGkPREJzeoLMA$>
> Archival resources website: lchc.ucsd.edu.
> Narrative history of LCHC:  lchcautobio.ucsd.edu.
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