[Xmca-l] Re: remote_online learning?

[mike cole]

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$> the
>>> ad-hoc home schooling programming that teachers and families across the
>>> country had been forced to cobble together during this public health
>>> emergency as “a massive experiment in remote learning”.
>>>
>>> The goal of this experiment, he said, was “trying to find out: how do
>>> kids learn remotely? And with that data we should be able to build better
>>> remote and distance learning tools which, when combined with the teacher …
>>> will help kids learn better.” "
>>>
>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic__;!!Mih3wA!RBUVfeKgIkRZBMKvlCZK5BY_Un7M6KYzxsJEz5KOvLWR9-xV2uvzdb977BGkPRH6difkdw$ 
>>> <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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translations, conjoinings is it made?" Salman Rushdie
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