21st Century Learning and Teaching

Rhizomatic Learning developed as an approach for me as a response to my experiences working with online communities. Along with some colleagues we started meeting regularly online for live interactive webcasts starting in 2005 at Edtechtalk. We learned by working together, sharing our experiences and understanding.

The outcomes of those discussions were more about participating and belonging than about specific items of content – the content was already everywhere around us on the web. Our challenge was in learning how to choose, how to deal with the uncertainty of abundance and choice presented by the Internet.

In translating this experience to the classroom, I try to see the open web and the connections we create between people and ideas as the curriculum for learning.

===> In a sense, participating in the community is the curriculum. <===

Via Ana Cristina Pratas, juandoming