Too often these days, it feels like the values of today's Big Education system have become things like..
compliance, rules, skills, assessment, formulas, methods, standardization, sameness, facts, norms, operations, practices, and standards.
I have my own set of values. I call them Learner Values. It's what happens when you take the student out of Big Education and place the learner on ICE.
I |
C |
E |
IDEATION |
CURIOSITY |
EXPLORATION |
INTUITION |
CREATIVITY |
EXPERIMENTATION |
IMMERSION |
COLLABORATION |
ENTREPRENEURSHIP |
INVESTIGATION |
CROSSING BOUNDARIES |
EXAMINATION |
IMAGINATION |
CONVERGENCE |
EMPATHY |
INNOVATION |
CONTRIBUTE |
EMERGENCE |
INQUIRY |
CONNECT |
EVOLVING |
INSIGHT |
CONTEMPLATION |
ENERGY |
I think you make some important points in this blog posting, and that your ICE approach has the potential to create more value for more people. What do you see as the most efficient ways of putting these values even more into practice? If you were to be concrete about who needs to do what, what would you suggest?
Posted by: Frank Calberg | March 16, 2010 at 02:51 AM
I'm impressed. Simpel although powerful.
Posted by: Wilfred | March 16, 2010 at 01:31 PM
Frank I think that first students need to be given opportunities to use these values. Values are applied. For one to apply these values, they must have the opportunity to apply them.
Secondly, values take priority over other values. If one values creativity and standardization, then one value will win over the over. People need to be conscious of these values and actively choose to apply them over other values. This can work in learning terms, lesson design and curriculum, and leadership.
Posted by: Rob Jacobs | March 16, 2010 at 07:18 PM
Thanks for the inputs, Rob. I appreciate it.
Posted by: Frank Calberg | March 17, 2010 at 09:21 AM
Thank you once again for such a wonderful post! I will refer to it and recommend it - along with the others I have come to look forward to daily!
Posted by: Nina | March 24, 2010 at 10:38 AM