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Learners! Creative Learners!
Week 2 is full of interest-based learning goodies: a great panel, some iconic readings, and an activity that takes you back to your childhood. It doesn't get much better than this.
Before we get started - If these group emails get too much, or life gets in the way, click the unsubscribe link at the very bottom of this email (or any future emails from us) and the learning will stop. Ok, actually only the emails will stop. Because you are still free to participate in the G+ community , work through the syllabus or watch the session videos .
Block The Date - Session 2 - Tue, Feb 19 >
Next week we will meet on Tuesday (instead of Monday) - February 19 at 10:15 AM
(US Eastern). Joi Ito and Mimi Ito will be joining us as guest panelists and talk about their own learning trajectories and how their interests led them to where they are today.
It will be awesome. Maybe the back channel chat will even work (we're using a different tool). The best way to keep track of the event and receive updates is to register here . And if you have burning questions that you would like the panel to discuss, please submit them here .
Task 1 - Readings & Discussion >
In preparation for the Feb 19 panel, please check out the suggested readings (all links are below) and write a short (2-3 paragraphs, no more!) reflection. Share it within the group, read some of the other posts and discuss. Here are some questions to get you started:
 What did you find most surprising in the readings?
 What did you disagree with or have questions about?
Task 2 - The Activity >
For this week's activity, read Seymour Papert’s essay on the “ Gears of My Childhood
” and write about an object from your childhood that interested and influenced you. Share your story in the group. For inspiration, you can find examples from other students who took the class in the additional resources section below.
Intro Video - Say "Hello World!" >
We've already received loads of introduction videos, but if yours isn't one of them (yet) it's not too late. Just upload a 30 sec video to youtube or vimeo and submit the URL in this form - introduce yourself, tell us where you are, and why you are excited to participate in the course. We will collect all the videos into a single gallery. It will be beautiful.
That's it. Week 2. Let's go!

Oliver (aka The Machine) and the Learning Creative Learning team
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Readings:
- Seymour Papert (1980): Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
(Foreword: Gears of My Childhood)
- Joi Ito blog posts: Formal vs Informal Education , Reading the Dictionary , Dubai and
Learning about the Unknowable
- Joi Ito (2012).
Keynote to Open Educational Resources meeting (video), Hewlett
Foundation.
- Mimi Ito et al. (2009) : Learning and Living with New Media . MacArthur Foundation.
Additional Resources:
* Mimi Ito et al. (2013).
Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design ,
MacArthur Foundation.
* MacArthur Foundation (2012): The Essence of Connected Learning (video).
* Wired Magazine (2012).
Open university: Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT's
Media Lab.
* Sherry Turkle (2007). Evocative Objects: Things We Think With ( Introduction , and selected essays Cello , Knots , Stars ).
MIT Press.
* Sherry Turkle (2008). Falling for science: Objects in Mind ( Blocks , Steps , Venus
Paradis Coloring Set ). MIT Press.
* Examples: Sayamindu Dasgupta (2010).
Kites ; Ricarose Roque (2010) .
Pencils
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