...not Sage on the Stage
We support Papert's Mathetics view of education, which has the science of learning as the focus (vs. Didactics or the science of teaching)
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Thanks to Seth for the inspiration to just go ahead and do this.
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Plato said, “Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
120 years ago, John Dewey, with his can-do attitude towards education, said, “All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate”.
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” - W. Edwards Deming
Seymour Papert stresses support for personal variation in learning styles, and for the increased acceptance by schools of the ability to learn without assistance.
“A curriculum defines what we ought to learn. For what? To become competent to live a life that we freely chose, for which we are fully responsible, and that brings us realization. A curriculum, therefore, is not a set of subject matters (‘disciplines’) we need to assimilate, but a matrix of competencies we need to build” - Eduardo Chaves
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Welcome to the Tribe!
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our tribal website. I have created this site to stimulate conversations regarding the future of education. I have posted some compelling and, arguably, controversial opinions about how students learn versus how teachers instruct - stemming from a decade of conversations I have enjoyed with myriad educators from around the world.
It is my ultimate desire that these topics provoke new, unique thought exercises to help us in our eternal quest to improve the lot for our children’s children.
Enjoy!
Jorge
Current resume
Current resume Jorge Nelson short version.pdf
Sample keynotes, papers, and presentations
AAIE.2002.presentation.pdf
BIS HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT.pdf
Building the Digital Classroom.pdf
Computer Simulations (Microcultures).pdf
Director's Report.AGM.Bali.pdf
GASS.pdf
High Fidelity Computer-Based Simulations.pdf
Integrating McREL Standards & The Basic School.pdf
International education.pdf
Scenarios for SIS.pdf
School system simulation.pdf
Teacher behavior and student achievement.pdf
Total Quality Management as a Philosophical .pdf
Towards A Dynamic Data-based Decision-Making Tool.pdf
Sample interactive slideshows
Director's report.AGM.2003.ppt
International Education.Dr.Nelson.ppt
The Essential Middle School final.ppt
Forum
Becoming a resource for learners as true Guides by the Side online? Maybe? 15 Replies
Started by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson in Sample Title. Last reply by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson Mar 30.
Rethinking Computers in the Classroom -- Starting a Think Tank? 18 Replies
Started by Roger Bullis in Sample Title. Last reply by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson Apr 28.
E-Brainstorming Tools 9 Replies
Started by Roger Bullis in Uncategorized. Last reply by Gary Donahue Apr 28.
Blog Posts
The youngest TEDsters at ISS
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Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on November 8, 2009 at 3:27pm
Heres to the crazy ones...
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on October 27, 2009 at 8:51am
No more Going to Work
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on October 27, 2009 at 3:50am
Change
He argues that the most important invention… Continue
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on October 23, 2009 at 4:09am
Homo Faber - Man the Maker in the Future Today
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on October 22, 2009 at 8:42pm
Innovation is everything...
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on October 22, 2009 at 8:37pm
Again and Again...
The Rule of High School
Any sufficiently overheated industry will eventually resemble high school. High school is filled with insecurity, social climbing, backbiting, false friends, faux achievements, high drama and not much content. Much of this insecurity comes from a market that doesn't make good judgments, that doesn't understand how to reliably choose between alternatives. So it turns into a popularity contest.
As Tom Hanks reportedly said, "Hollywood is like high school… Continue
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on October 16, 2009 at 8:20pm
Finest moments
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on October 12, 2009 at 9:07pm
Education at the crossroads
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on August 18, 2009 at 3:04am
Everything I learned in Kindergarten
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on August 12, 2009 at 8:30am
John's thought for the day
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Submitted by John E. Baker, JEB, West Point classmate, soldier, scholar, creator of the Army motto, ‘Soldiers Always’
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on August 6, 2009 at 9:21am
WE ACT...
World-view = the world is hot, flat and crowded
Emotional Intelligence = people have to get along
Academics in balance = a true libera… Continue
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on August 5, 2009 at 3:32pm
The Higher You Climb
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on July 22, 2009 at 6:28pm
DIY projects
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on July 20, 2009 at 5:15pm
From Zero to 5th grade in a few months...
Thanks, Art.
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on July 18, 2009 at 7:14pm
40 years after Apollo 11
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on July 16, 2009 at 9:30pm
Planning
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Alan Lakein
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on July 14, 2009 at 1:06pm
BC Calculus on an XboX 360 anyone?
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on July 9, 2009 at 9:24pm
Art sent this today -READ this and think with your heart
– John Ruskin
About John Ruskin
John Ruskin was an English art critic who influenced the attitude of a whole generation toward art and architecture. He was born in 1819 in London. His career began with an essay defending his friend, artist J.M.W. Turner, from critics. His book Modern Painters made Turner popular and gave stature to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He founded the Cambridge Scool of Art… Continue
Posted by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson on June 19, 2009 at 9:18am
Notes
What is Guide by the Side all about?
It's sort of a cross between Facebook, a blog and Squidoo.
But it's not Facebook. It's about an idea, not about the people here.
This community makes it easy for you to connect to people more deeply than you could in most other online sites. That's because:
* It's a private, g
… ContinueCreated by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson Nov 10, 2008 at 9:59am. Last updated by Dr. Jorge Olaf Nelson Jan 7.
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Mine: (thanks to my mentor teacher - Ms. L. Foster)
"It's EASY...
...once you get it"
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