[Xmca-l] Re: remote_online learning?

[Tom Richardson]

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$> the
>> ad-hoc home schooling programming that teachers and families across the
>> country had been forced to cobble together during this public health
>> emergency as “a massive experiment in remote learning”.
>>
>> The goal of this experiment, he said, was “trying to find out: how do
>> kids learn remotely? And with that data we should be able to build better
>> remote and distance learning tools which, when combined with the teacher …
>> will help kids learn better.” "
>>
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic__;!!Mih3wA!S8yVbF5guxTiMxKAlhjjQNezXxjzTcyezYfrM10Lya6khnKaWF3ltY383f9-vsBT5Bx8Ww$ 
>> <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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