learning skills in OS

[Funda Oral]

Yes then, we needed to determine who is lazy and who is hardworker...then tools to decide and to judge

Funda  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Henri Lipmanowicz 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:45 AM
  Subject: Re: learning skills in OS


  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

   

   

  -----Original Message-----
  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Raffi Aftandelian
  Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:58 PM
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  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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