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By: Jesus Lopez

Jesus Lopez — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:02:51 +0000

The idea of “becoming information gardeners’” reminds me of the book “The Natural Advantage” by Alan Heeks. What we need is an organic way to grow our learning.

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Literacy & Libraries in North Texas — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:44:06 +0000

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By: David Warlick

David Warlick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:40:15 +0000

I’m glad you asked about this, Leonard. It gives me a chance to further define my meaning. When I talk about fast food, I’m not referring to the fast vs slow. I’m thinking about the seductive appeal of fast food with its excess of sugar, salt, and fat. It’s made to appeal in the same way that we often talk about the appeal of video and animation — “..it’s where the kids are.”

I disagree that gardened food means less fast. There is nothing faster than being able to pick a mess of string beans in the backyard, drop’m in a steamer, and enjoy the crisp flavor of lightly salted and buttered freshness a half hour later.

When we are cultivating our personal learning network, we are growing and pruning it based on rapid change. We are able to adapt to our current questions and goals and the changing conditions, and do it flexibly — because we are in control, and we are able to connect to people based not on proximity, but on ideas.

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By: Diane Quirk

Diane Quirk — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:16:27 +0000

Love the last paragraph – what a great analogy! We seem to do a lot of “fast food” gathering in our classrooms – particularly for one of my favorites…the “research project!” I would love to see teachers embed research strategies into science and social studies so that students learn to gather the information themselves to answer questions rather than just collecting it from the teacher. Thanks for this post which will keep me thinking for a long while.

By: Hedy Laverdiere

Hedy Laverdiere — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:36:28 +0000

David, what/where is this online juvenile textbook? Is it available?

By: Leonard Klein

Leonard Klein — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:08:09 +0000

I agree with your idea of gathering your information. However I wonder about the fast food analogy. If we are learning in a time of rapid change that sounds like fast food. Yet you are using the slow food movement as the way you learn. Is there a conflict here? The learning will be deeper, as your cultivation of the garden, but will it keep up with the rate of change. How do we teach our students who have not enjoyed slow food to love slow food? I agree with the idea it is the execution that I am hazy on.

Len