[Xmca-l] Re: remote_online learning?

[mike cole]

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$> the
> ad-hoc home schooling programming that teachers and families across the
> country had been forced to cobble together during this public health
> emergency as “a massive experiment in remote learning”.
>
> The goal of this experiment, he said, was “trying to find out: how do kids
> learn remotely? And with that data we should be able to build better remote
> and distance learning tools which, when combined with the teacher … will
> help kids learn better.” "
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic__;!!Mih3wA!V4rtgUKjjshdiOxbIML_kuerunhUbHYomcCKiRVA5FkPs1WJIJwbuavyFoG613YInQsEtA$ 
> <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
>
>

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