Learning and Choice
- 1. “ Learning and Choice ” Group #10 : Amendolara Cáceres Soria
- 2. Learning Based on Plato’s concept of aporia, Burbules believes that teachers should lead students into a state of aporia and then lead them out again. But, …
- 3. … what is “aporia”?
- 4. Aporia From the Greek a-poros : “ lacking a path, a way”. It is the sense of being lost , of having arrived in an unfamiliar location .
- 5. Aporia It implies a lack of clarity about how to proceed, requiring a judgment or a choice to be made. ( As when we are lost in the Web.) Let’s see three examples to illustrate this ...
- 6. 1) “Allegory of the Cave,” by Plato. After a time on the surface, the freed prisoner acclimated and started to see more things around him… The most important is the Sun, the “source of the seasons and the years: the steward of all things in the visible place.” That is, when he saw it, he reached complete knowledge .
- 7. 2) “La Vida es Sueño,” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Segismundo -the main character- is in prison. He lives in the darkness and does not know who he is. When he discovers himself, he reaches the light.
- 8. 3) “The Matrix,” film by the Wachowsky Brothers . Morpheus : You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain , but you feel it. Do you know what I'm talking about? Neo : The Matrix? Morpheus : The Matrix is everywhere. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Neo : What truth? Morpheus : That you are a slave. A prison for your mind . Neo : Why do my eyes hurt? Morpheus : You've never used them before .
- 9. So, what do the examples mean? In the three works, the protagonists experience aporia : they do not know who they are, where to go and what to do. Now, there can exist a reconstruction of true knowledge . But, …
- 10. How do we get out of an aporia?
- 11. Choices The paths students take lead them to unfamiliar places or to get information that is more useful or interesting. They being lost again ( aporia ) end up or taking a decision ( choices ) So, what are choices?
- 12. Learning and Choice Choices are an opportunity to engage with difficulty , involving a sense of challenge and excitement . In the Web, the confusion is about which choice to make . These experimentations with choices are associated with learning .
- 13. Sources: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/freetoview.asp?j=elea&vol=1&issue=2&year=2004&article=2_Burbules_ELEA_1_2_web ttp://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:e2jI0F1CLXkJ:www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-yearbook/97_docs/rizvi.html+burbules%2Blearning+choice&cd=2&hl=es&ct=clnk&gl=ar http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-yearbook/97_docs/burbules.html Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. “La Vida es Sueño” (Summary) Plato, “Allegory of the Cave” (Summary) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matrix (Quotes from “The Matrix”)