Remainders and Memory in #Rhizo14
Well these 6 weeks have really flown by. I am going to echo the
sentiment of so many when I say this has been such a rewarding
opportunity to engage with ideas and structures, and more importantly to
create sites for learning to grow.
As Dave said in the last unhangout, what #rhizo14 became was a space for discussion which was not necessarily about content- which is why it was/ is so brilliant. As Clarissa alluded to in her comments about structure in language learning, Dave helped create a structure that we all in turn dismantled and rebuilt. Keith raised a good point in the unhangout which I want to latch onto and develop in true rhizomatic fashion and that is power in learning can never be erased but co-learning and collaboration allows for a sharing of power and thus leads to empowerment.
We in #rhizo14 were invested in creating a space that isn't empty as Keith and Sarah so eloquently put it. I feel in filling these spaces, in collaborating the idea of obsolescence is always present but it shouldn't be scary or ominous. Ethical learning provides the space to explore and hone literacies , and this I think is as close to the definition of learning that George was looking for. As learners, teachers, instructors, facilitators we provide the primitive framework that slowly fades away like stitches after a bad baseball accident. But the scar will always remain.
This is the essence of so many "farewell" posts, that this isn't goodbye that the rhizo will always go on. Case in point, I'm typing this on my cel phone and it keeps trying to autocorrect #rhizo14 to #rhizo15 or #rhizo23.
At the heart of all of this is that this was truly all a meta-pedagogical experience. It was a course about pedagogy that produced its own pedagogy (how's that for a paradox of awesomeness).
We have curated, read, built, dismantled all while adding to our PLN and filling in gaps of our knowledge we didn't even know we had. I would call that a resounding success!
Here's to the rhizo, rhizo the to here!
As Dave said in the last unhangout, what #rhizo14 became was a space for discussion which was not necessarily about content- which is why it was/ is so brilliant. As Clarissa alluded to in her comments about structure in language learning, Dave helped create a structure that we all in turn dismantled and rebuilt. Keith raised a good point in the unhangout which I want to latch onto and develop in true rhizomatic fashion and that is power in learning can never be erased but co-learning and collaboration allows for a sharing of power and thus leads to empowerment.
We in #rhizo14 were invested in creating a space that isn't empty as Keith and Sarah so eloquently put it. I feel in filling these spaces, in collaborating the idea of obsolescence is always present but it shouldn't be scary or ominous. Ethical learning provides the space to explore and hone literacies , and this I think is as close to the definition of learning that George was looking for. As learners, teachers, instructors, facilitators we provide the primitive framework that slowly fades away like stitches after a bad baseball accident. But the scar will always remain.
This is the essence of so many "farewell" posts, that this isn't goodbye that the rhizo will always go on. Case in point, I'm typing this on my cel phone and it keeps trying to autocorrect #rhizo14 to #rhizo15 or #rhizo23.
At the heart of all of this is that this was truly all a meta-pedagogical experience. It was a course about pedagogy that produced its own pedagogy (how's that for a paradox of awesomeness).
We have curated, read, built, dismantled all while adding to our PLN and filling in gaps of our knowledge we didn't even know we had. I would call that a resounding success!
Here's to the rhizo, rhizo the to here!
Paradox makes for interesting experiences, right?
ReplyDeleteKevin
Absolutely it does! Add a little liminality and you have a recipe for cognitive soup!
DeleteIt's been a blast, hasn't it? Let's hope it never ends :-)
DeleteAgreed!
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