Is it possible to re-design the kind of experience-based learning we created together at CITYterm and in the Teaching for Experience workshop in a remote medium?
I confess I do not know, but I am really eager to try. And that is what Mind The Gap is going to do this fall. Here is the link-https://mtgnow.org/
We just went live today with the website. Please feel free to pass this link around to whomever you think might be interested.
Since you read this blog (well, maybe you read it sometimes), you have some idea of the kinds of things we have learned about how and why some moments in our lives become experiences. And transformative experiences in many cases.
So, the new challenge is this--can you design an online curriculum, pedagogy and a collective of human relationships that will allow everyone involved to create an experience? I have been very hopeful with some experiments lately, but it is such a different world to what I am used to whether I am working with students or teachers.
Here is one thing I think we have going for us from a learning theory point of view. It took me years of teaching and coaching to realize that the following phrase is deeply true--"Transitions are a time of maximum creativity." We will have to have a sophisticated understanding of the characteristics of transitions and why we sabotage that state of being so frequently, so unnecessarily. This venture is all about the time of TRANSITION. Let's see what we can create!
Thoughts and comments welcome. I will keep you posted as this progresses. Share the website with your friends and colleagues.
Keep the faith..
