learning skills in OS

[Mayke Wagner, essence]

Hi Raffi,
I find your story about learning Russian in the Open-Space way very
interesting! What age where you and your calls mates, when you studied
Russian like that?
Mayke
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Von: Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at pochtamt.ru>
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Datum: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 00:57:39 +0400
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Colleagues,
I forgot to include one thought on OS:

After I was trained in OS, I realized that I learned Russian in a public US
high school essentially in OS in the mid-80's. Before we were plunged
straight into OS, the teacher gave us the bare minimum for Russian: we
learned the letters, pronounciation, and a little more. Then he said
(essentially): "OK, you need to complete 2 chapters per quarter. You need to
do the following written, oral, aural assignments for each chapter (lists
were handed out). What pace you do them is up to you. But 2 chapters is the
quota. If you complete more than 2 chapters, you get a 2% bonus for each
additional chpater.

So we went to class each day, we could sit quietly and study; we could ask
each other questions and figure out the grammar by ourselves. The teacher
almost never "taught" anything. Rather, he was available whenever we wanted
to complete an assignment. If we thought we were ready to do an oral
exercise, we banded together with others who were ready too and approached
the teacher, who conducted the oral grammar exercise with us. If we
successfully did the assignment, he would sign our task sheet; one more task
had been completed; one more step closer to finishing the chapter. With
time, other students were deemed knowledgeable enough to conduct certain
exercises instead of the teacher- and sign off for the teacher.

We were self-managed, self-organizing. The principles and law all applied
here...

So maybe skills can be learned in OS?

Other stories?
Raffi
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