learning skills in OS
Henri Lipmanowicz
henri.lipmanowicz at verizon.net
Thu Jul 8 15:45:23 PDT 2004
Re. your question:
"We were self-managed, self-organizing. The principles and law all
applied here...So maybe skills can be learned in OS? Other stories ".
This is how we all learned to speak as babies; we didn't even need a
book, certainly not a grammar, no quotas, no tests and we all made it!
This is also how we learned to stack wooden blocks, use a spoon and
trained our parents to pick up what we dropped on the floor.
The big difference is that we didn't know we were studying; we were just
playing and having a ball, learning like sponges but on our own terms.
Then, one day, some people decided that, since we were playing all the
time, it had to mean that we must be too lazy to study. So they
convinced themselves they should take control of our learning and turn
it into a serious, planned and structured chore.
You know what happened from that moment on,
Henri
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Raffi
Aftandelian
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:58 PM
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Subject: learning skills in OS
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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