Rhizomatic Learning
Rhizomatic learning is a story of how we can learn in a world
of abundance - abundance of perspective, of information and of
connection. A paper/location based learning model forces us to
make decisions, in advance, about what it is important for
students to learn. This was a practical reality - if we were
going to have content available for a course, it needed to be
prepared in advance. In order to prepare the content in
advance, we needed to prepare the objectives in advance. And,
given that we know what everyone is supposed to learn, we might
as well check and see if they all did and compare them against
each other.
What happens if we let that go? What happens when we approach a
learning experience and we don't know what we are going to
learn? Where each student can learn something a little bit
different - together? If we decide that important learning is
more like being a parent, or being a cook, and less like
knowing all the counties in England in 1450? What if we decided
to trust the idea that people can come together to learn given
the availability of an abundance of perspective, of information
and of connection?