Comments on: Going Bedouin: Creating Passionate Classrooms http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/05/29/going-bedouin-creating-passionate-classrooms/ The life and times of an English teacher in Mexico City Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:20:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Shilpi Maheswari http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/05/29/going-bedouin-creating-passionate-classrooms/#comment-667 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:09:36 +0100 http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/05/29/going-bedouin-creating-passionate-classrooms/#comment-667 I believe we need to strengthen our definition of passion. One's passion is something one values more than oneself. When something is concerned with her (or his)passion she or he forget herself. I realised the ultimate of passion-based learning recently, in India - probably the land of passion! You know Indians are passionate about cricket, movies etc. There is a product called "Smarten Your English through Cricket". From School English to GRE / GMAT / IELTS English is explained through Cricket alone! 700 Hours of passioante cricketing topics is taught in cricketing language alone! I beleive this is passion-based-learning. You are in fact getting seduced to learn. Your passion pulls you. Go to their website www.espoirtech.com and you will realise. I think the same publisher has another innovative product called Learn English through Kama Sutra! The ultiamte in passion based learning! I believe we need to strengthen our definition of passion. One’s passion is something one values more than oneself. When something is concerned with her (or his)passion she or he forget herself.
I realised the ultimate of passion-based learning recently, in India - probably the land of passion!
You know Indians are passionate about cricket, movies etc. There is a product called “Smarten Your English through Cricket”. From School English to GRE / GMAT / IELTS English is explained through Cricket alone! 700 Hours of passioante cricketing topics is taught in cricketing language alone! I beleive this is passion-based-learning. You are in fact getting seduced to learn. Your passion pulls you.
Go to their website www.espoirtech.com and you will realise.
I think the same publisher has another innovative product called Learn English through Kama Sutra! The ultiamte in passion based learning!

]]> by: lili http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/05/29/going-bedouin-creating-passionate-classrooms/#comment-622 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:26:07 +0000 http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/05/29/going-bedouin-creating-passionate-classrooms/#comment-622 oh my goodness. It is funny that you think that your concept of teaching via the internet, with no walls, should be described by the concept 'Bedouin'. I have just spent time in the desert with real 'Bedouin' - and total lack of access to the internet and mobile phone signal - is exactly what the Bedouin experience is all about. Technological wilderness. Forgetting about wires and gadgets. The concept of 'free flowing and open communication networks though between teachers and pupils', does relate, but it is more connected with the experience of being somewhere and thinking some-one will turn up one day, and then having to wait until the next day for them to turn up, and of course, with no explanation. So, you have to accept it, as part of a natural 'open free flowing communication network'. Patience is required. As for the concept of 'no walls', there is the 'open desert' 'out there' but actually, the Bedouin are 'fiercely protective' within their own defined parameters and they are well known for being a 'closed society'.... so there you go. oh my goodness. It is funny that you think that your concept of teaching via the internet, with no walls, should be described by the concept ‘Bedouin’. I have just spent time in the desert with real ‘Bedouin’ - and total lack of access to the internet and mobile phone signal - is exactly what the Bedouin experience is all about.

Technological wilderness.

Forgetting about wires and gadgets.

The concept of ‘free flowing and open communication networks though between teachers and pupils’, does relate, but it is more connected with the experience of being somewhere and thinking some-one will turn up one day, and then having to wait until the next day for them to turn up, and of course, with no explanation.
So, you have to accept it, as part of a natural ‘open free flowing communication network’.

Patience is required.

As for the concept of ‘no walls’, there is the ‘open desert’ ‘out there’ but actually, the Bedouin are ‘fiercely protective’ within their own defined parameters and they are well known for being a ‘closed society’….
so there you go.

]]> by: daniel http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/05/29/going-bedouin-creating-passionate-classrooms/#comment-422 Tue, 30 May 2006 04:36:16 +0100 http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/05/29/going-bedouin-creating-passionate-classrooms/#comment-422 i think brick and mortar schools will go the way of radio, movie theaters, printed books and monogamous marriages between males and females...oh,wait. we still have those don't we? um...nevermind. ;) i think brick and mortar schools will go the way of radio, movie theaters, printed books and monogamous marriages between males and females…oh,wait. we still have those don’t we? um…nevermind.
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]]> by: Doug Noon http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/05/29/going-bedouin-creating-passionate-classrooms/#comment-418 Mon, 29 May 2006 10:31:33 +0100 http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/05/29/going-bedouin-creating-passionate-classrooms/#comment-418 Your idea of a classroom without walls is one of the "Big Ideas" that I like to play with, too. Granted, it's so far out there that the concept of education and even learning will have to change. I can't imagine what would prompt such a change, but like you, I can imagine how it might look: Loose associations of teachers and students in which teachers and students work with other teachers and students. These networks would become school communities. They would be dedicated to some kind of real work, possibly commercial but not necessarily. Like a guild, maybe. It's interesting to think about. I wonder what the timeline for the future of brick and mortar schools looks like. How long will they remain relevant? Will they become more open, or more like jails before they disappear? Thanks for sharing this thought. You might be interested in letting some of this spill over into <a href="http://classroomchange.pbwiki.com/" rel="nofollow">The Classroom Change Wiki</a> that Clarence Fisher just put up. Your idea of a classroom without walls is one of the “Big Ideas” that I like to play with, too. Granted, it’s so far out there that the concept of education and even learning will have to change. I can’t imagine what would prompt such a change, but like you, I can imagine how it might look: Loose associations of teachers and students in which teachers and students work with other teachers and students. These networks would become school communities. They would be dedicated to some kind of real work, possibly commercial but not necessarily. Like a guild, maybe.

It’s interesting to think about. I wonder what the timeline for the future of brick and mortar schools looks like. How long will they remain relevant? Will they become more open, or more like jails before they disappear?

Thanks for sharing this thought. You might be interested in letting some of this spill over into The Classroom Change Wiki that Clarence Fisher just put up.

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