A classroom filled with robots attentively learning robotic logic from a human instructor. Student-Centered learning as an educational paradigm has been helpful in centering the experience of the learner (especially as a priority relative to the institution, the state standards, or the classroom facilitator). However, it would be a mistake to presume that Human-Centered learning … Continue reading The Difference Between Student-Centered and Human-Centered Learning: An Introduction
Re-write the Human Story with Ursula LeGuin
Ready to re-imagine the human story as a creative, building, gathering, home-making tradition rather than one of destruction, killing, and violence? The story of human history shapes how we see ourselves and our capacity for life and learning. How can humans become something other than what the stories say that we are? First, we have … Continue reading Re-write the Human Story with Ursula LeGuin
The Limitations of Online Learning
The limitation of online instruction is that much of it presumes education is entirely a matter of information transfer...and forgets that humans require more than answers to questions in order to live educated (and liberated) lives. The big question we face politically with both funding of the arts and with online schooling is really one … Continue reading The Limitations of Online Learning
The Challenge of Competency
Formal education still has to wake up to the fact that a human being is more than just a walking brain - or at least figure out some way to measure academic growth besides standardized tests!
Human-Centered Learning 