Black arts

We heard a lot about Generation Y today. It made me flick through the pages of Peter Sheahan's book again, reminding myself of his various insights. On page 96 he quotes Linda Botter: "What Generation Y want to know are the intangibles. How are you going to develop me?" Translating that into my speak... they want to be given ownership of the process. They want to plug and play. So I think it may be time that teachers revealed the secrets of their black arts, their pedagogies. I certainly have no problem with that... here are mine... Park 4 Types, Vectors, CLD, MOOC, and of course a test for VARK. It all fits on a side of A4 and can be grasped by a novice in about 10 minutes. Given the process, and encouraged in model thinking, and in critical thinking, and if STEM then in the scientific method, all that is left is to release them into the problem domain. They will find their own way. It's not so much about what we do, as what we are prepared to relinquish; to not do.

Gen-C MOOCism

Generation C are defined by their communities-of-interest, creativity, and connectedness. They have a connectivist pedagogy all their own. MOOC can truly be called an emergent organisation or pedagogy, "The idea of a MOOC was really a response to something that was already happening." (Cormier). MOOCism may be emergent, but the stated pedagogical principles look very like Shneiderman to me, which doesn't exactly make them new (m-Ako).

MOOC	Shneiderman
Aggregate	Collect
Remix	Relate
Repurpose	Create
Feed Forward	Donate