Conversation on do-it-yourself or just-in-time learning, connected to a community reading project around Cathy Davidson's Now You See It.

1. LEARNING TO LEARN
#nextchapter
2014/03/22
Nicholas Schiller

2. or:
JUST-IN-TIME
LEARNING

3. or:
DO-IT-YOURSELF
LEARNING

5. How We Learn
(simplified)
Take a Class
Pass a Test
Do the Thing

6. Public Domain from Wikimedia Commons

7. Example: HT Write
a Research Paper
(Informal Study) Comp textbooks teach
very similar methods.
1. Go to the Library
2. Research, Read, & Take Notes
3. Review Notes, Outline Paper
4. Write Paper

8. Why Did All the
Composition Textbooks
Teach The Same Method?

9. CC: Attribution 3.0
http://aguantegrimtales.deviantart.com/
CC: Attribution / Share Alike 2.0
http://www.flickr.com/people/7155821@N02

10. Not About “Old vs.
New”
Think apprenticeship
Other kinds of hands-on-training
US Public Schools are not only way
to learn

11. Just-In-Time
JIT in Industry
Warehouse Model is old news

12. Learning to Learn
“Anything worth doing is worth
doing badly.” (Chesterton)
The new amateurism is not
necessarily amateurish. (Shirky &
Lessig)

13. WHEN CAN WE DO STUFF?
Attribution-ShareAlike License: Henry

14. JUST IN TIME
LEARNING
Neil Gershenfeld, Fab Lab, Maker
Movement
Today’s US Public School Model
How we learn is up to us.

15. WHEN CAN WE DO STUFF?
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http://aguantegrimtales.deviantart.com/
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http://www.flickr.com/people/7155821@N02

17. LEARNING IS NOT
SEPARATE FROM
DOING.

18. LEARNING

19. IS

20. NOT

21. SEPARATE

22. FROM

23. DOING.

24. LEARNING IS NOT
SEPARATE FROM
DOING.

27. Quantified Learning
Taylorism / Skinnerism
Rational Choice Theory /
Neoliberalism
“One Right Way to Learn”

28. Today

29. LEARNING TO
LEARN
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
COMMUNITIES AS SOURCES
ASKING BETTER QUESTIONS

30. SOURCES OF
INFORMATION
Web
site:.edu, “”, *
Use different tools (Not just Google)
Library
Research Databases++
Video
Youtube is where it’s at

31. PRACTICE SEARCHES

32. COMMUNITIES ARE
INFORMATION SOURCES
Doing & Knowing are kind of the
same thing
Publishing process has been
disrupted
“You mean I need MANNERS to learn
stuff?”

33. INFORMATION FROM
COMMUNITIES

34. ASKING BETTER
QUESTIONS
Rubber Duck Debugging is magic.
No, really. It’s magic.
Magic, I tell you!
blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-
problem-solving/

35. QUESTIONS?
DISCUSSION?