• Complexity and Emergence

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• Emergent Pedagogy: Approaching Education (an article) | Serendip’s Exchange

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  • It is the learning process that is the fundamental building block of emergent pedagogy.  In a lecture-style classroom with a plan that is concrete, both the teacher and the student learn only what has been set out for them: the teacher learns nothing more and the student learns only what the teacher already knows.  While this seems adequate in a standardized testing environment, in the real world, this scheme seems ill equipped to foster new ideas. 
  • However, when opening the classroom to a discussion environment based on the culmination of diverse ideas from diverse people, original ideas are much more apt to be produced because they are the result of pre-formulated ideas being adapted when new, diverse information is received.
    • flint and steel metaphor–you need both to make a fire – post by tellio
  • Look at the Nobel Prize Winners for the past few years—there has rarely ever been a single nomination for an original discovery.  There is almost always a group of people working toward a common goal and discovering a novel idea.
    • we live in collaboration nation – post by tellio

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