https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2021-10-27 00:07:08 UTC 2025-09-30 19:27:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846565795 If [educational institutions] must not start with the question, “what should someone learn?” but with the question “what kinds of things might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?"

]]> 2021-10-27 00:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846565795 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846566374 Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known online orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets.]]> 2021-10-27 00:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846566374 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846566761 Peer matching is an interesting idea in theory - but what could it look like in actual practice (in a traditional public school let's say..)

]]> 2021-10-27 00:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846566761 aubrey_cripps https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846567246 "A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives;  empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and, finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public. with the opportunity to make their challenge known."]]> 2021-10-27 00:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846567246 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846567905 Special tax incentives could be granted to those who employed children between the ages of eight and fourteen for a couple of hours each day if the conditions of employment were humane ones.]]> 2021-10-27 00:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846567905 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846568019 If the goals of learning were no longer dominated by schools and schoolteachers; the market for learners would be much more various and the definition of “educational artifacts” would be less restrictive. 

]]> 2021-10-27 00:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846568019 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846568702 Schools are designed with the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life, the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known in orderly successions: and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. 

]]> 2021-10-27 00:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846568702 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846569352 ..to question “what works” in educational institutions and learning communities. To be curious about what might be next and what might be the next shiny thing. 

]]> 2021-10-27 00:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846569352 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846570203 Come to look, come to climb our mountains, to enjoy our flowers. Come to study. But do not come to help.]]> 2021-10-27 00:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846570203 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846570659 I agree about systems changes needed in education and who in power might need to support these changes. -- though I wonder how do you gain enough political capital and will to actually influence leaders and shift procedures? ]]> 2021-10-27 00:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846570659 aubrey_cripps https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846570932 "We can depend on self-motivated learning instead of employing teachers to bribe or compel the students to find the time and the will to learn; that we can provide the learner with new links to the world instead of continuing to funnel all educational programs through the teacher."]]> 2021-10-27 00:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846570932 aubrey_cripps https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846573369 I am here to challenge you to recognize your inability, your powerlessness and your incapacity to do the "good" which you intended to do. ]]> 2021-10-27 00:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846573369 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846573659 “School removes things from everyday usc by labeling them educational tools.” -- I understand the intention behind this message, but wonder if it perpetuates the idea that educational tools are not useful in themselves and deserving of incorporation into our lives?]]> 2021-10-27 00:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846573659 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846580266 I like the intention behind Illiches themes but I wonder if they are altogether that radical. Having worked in Afterschool Programs, Work Based Learning, and Studio Art I feel like a lot of what's described commonly exists but is not often respected.]]> 2021-10-27 00:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846580266 https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846583340 I think I aspire to some form of structureless education with the emphasis for me being on the removal of labels and systemic systems that are barriers to authentic learning. I like how confidently Illich speaks and the calls to action he makes to leaders like politicians to get behind an expanded learning model. ]]> 2021-10-27 00:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aubrey_cripps/4oxc7tym89secz1s/wish/1846583340