יום ראשון, 11 בינואר 2015

Arendt and the Synchronous Education

This post is based on the common sense that learning does not equal education. As Arendt put it, "one can go on learning to the end of one’s days without for that reason becoming educated."
Digital learning does not equal to education. There is digital learning but there is no "digital education".
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. 

If education is love for the world and assume responsibility for it, education can't be digital.
And therefore education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own digital devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world. We have to educate them to become Synchronous learners, according to Nir Golan, educational and leadership expert, are coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.  Synchronous learners are connected to the events that are ongoing in the world. They use those events as Problem Solving Learning. This responsibility is not arbitrarily imposed upon educators; it is implicit in the fact that the Synchronous learners are introduced by adults into a continuously changing world.
Synchronous learner must have the following essential skill sets:
Technological proficiency: expertise in all the digital nets and tools
Collaboration: the ability to work as a part of a team, required to have a broad view of the project, have holistic consideration and collaborate with others in order to achieve this goal.
Communication: message transfer and transformation
Global awareness: a whole world vision
Problem solving: analyzing and perfectionism
Creativity: thinking out of the box
Critical thinking: evaluation skills
Education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world. These skills and processes should be at the heart of every decision a synchronous learner makes and are the keys to teaching other people with the tools to success in their life.
Arendt said that: "We must decisively divorce the realm of education from the others, most of all from the realm of public, political life, in order to apply to it alone a concept of authority and an attitude toward the past which are appropriate to it but have no general validity and must not claim a general validity in the world of grown-ups."
The separation between political life and education is essential. The connection is confusing and damages the teacher's work. The most important solution is that teachers assume responsibility for the world the children are to enter.
Arendt summarized: "The teacher’s qualification consists in knowing the world and being able to instruct others about it, but his authority rests on his assumption of responsibility for that world. Vis-a-vis the child it is as though he were a representative of all adult inhabitants, pointing out the details and saying to the child: This is our world."

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