Five things I think I think The best teaching prepares people for dealing with uncertainty The community can be the curriculum – learning when there is no answer The rhizome is a model for learning for uncertainty Rhizomatic learning works in the complex domain We need to make students responsible for their own learning (and the learning of others)

1. Embracing Uncertainty
Rhizomatic Learning in Formal
Education.

2. Why do we teach?

3. Five things I think I think

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewvenn/366986755/

6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alltheaces/14654226/

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawnclover/540965185

8. What are we actually trying to teach?
1. Fire burns, don’t touch it?
2. When people tell you not to do something, you
should listen to them?
3. Hot is something you might want to check for?

9. Five things I think I think
1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty
ww.flickr.com/photos/marcobellucci/3534516458/

11. Five things I think I think
1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty
2. The community can be the curriculum – learning
when there is no answer

12. Yes, networked learning, we know.

14. Enter the Rhizome
A special kind of network

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/98857801@N00/214523

16. http://www.bamboogarden.com/Hardy%20clumping.htm

17. Some of the qualities that make
rhizomes cool
1. They can map in any direction from any
starting point
2. They grow and spread via experimentation
within a context
3. They grow and spread regardless of
breakage

18. Five things I think I think
1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty
2. The community can be the curriculum – learning
when there is no answer
3. The rhizome is a model for learning for
uncertainty

19. What kind of learning is it for?
I wouldn’t want my doctor learning
that way!

21. ”Successful health services in the 21st
century must aim not merely for change,
improvement, and response, but for
changeability, improvability, and
responsiveness.”
Coping with complexity: educating for capability
Sarah W Fraser, Trisha Greenhalgh. 2001

22. “When you finally come to grips you can't
solve today's problems using present
methods, you take the lead to venture to the
Complex Domain. As leader, you initiate a
search and rally followers to find a new
solution that will change the paradigm.”
Change Management or Change Leadership?
Gary Wong, Cognitive Edge Network 2010

23. Five things I think I think
1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty
2. The community can be the curriculum – learning
when there is no answer
3. The rhizome is a model for learning for
uncertainty
4. Rhizomatic learning works in the complex domain

24. Doing it on purpose
Rhizomatic Learning in practice.

28. Five things I think I think
1. The best teaching prepares people for dealing with
uncertainty
2. The community can be the curriculum – learning
when there is no answer
3. The rhizome is a model for learning for
uncertainty
4. Rhizomatic learning works in the complex domain
5. We need to make students responsible for their
own learning (and the learning of others)

29. Sure dave, that’s brilliant.
But this is India,
tell me how it scales.

30. We need to measure
learning

31. The fact that you need it doesn’t make it possible

32. Stop measuring
learning

33. Measure effort, engagement and
connection. Allow learners to be
responsible for - and measure their own -
learning journey. Let the robots count
what they can.

34. If we make the
community the
curriculum, membership
becomes how we scale.

35. @davecormier