Love this, Alexandra. (I know I'm late to this piece but it was just surfaced to me by the holy algorithm). Slow learning is a deep, entangled learning that hits on what I think learning is for in the first place - helping to build our identities, our way of being in the world.
What you're naming as the efficiency mantra is, in the phenomenological spirit, the "gestell" - the technological mode of revealing that turns everything, including time itself, into standing-reserve. A resource for extraction and management. When we look at thinking as a luxury, then we've already conceded that learning is a resource for production and output rather than formation. I'm thinking back to my middle schoolers who, whenever I tried to slow things down, would often push back against the slowness itself. Like the idea of efficiency is so engrained in their being that we just needed to rush rather than allow our bodies to ease in and consider the conversation.
I'm interested in learning more on the Yutori concept, thank you for sharing that resource. Seems like it is pointing at something we don't think about in western pedagogy - that spaciousness is a pre-condition for learning and identity development.
I have just published an article on the humble chalkboard, the original classroom technology, and the affordances it offers teachers. Slowing down and connecting the students and ideas was the key pedagogy benefit. So, good to see others following the trend!
Really enjoyed this piece! I’ve been reflecting a lot on how our educational systems often punish individuals for slowing down and taking more time to process and understand things. I agree with all of your suggestions and hope to work more of these behaviors into my life this year (:
Really enjoyed this piece! I’ve been reflecting a lot on how our educational systems often punish individuals for slowing down and taking more time to process and understand things. I agree with all of your suggestions and hope to work more of these behaviors into my life this year (:
Love these ideas! One of my favorite activities in class last week was giving students time to do individual drafting just alone, but in the room together. Body doubling, not making it about group work or productivity or noise and activity.
WONDERFUL Post - reliance on technology every minute of every day isn’t healthy - and I don’t believe it’s good for learning - for students or teachers (or parents or almost everyone?)…
Sometimes - taking a break - slowing down & having time to think is valuable! 👍
Agree with your sentiments here and your justifications as to why this is so important… Not just for those “aha moments” we have when we think - just for peace of mind! Thanks for this reminder! 👍😊
Love this, Alexandra. (I know I'm late to this piece but it was just surfaced to me by the holy algorithm). Slow learning is a deep, entangled learning that hits on what I think learning is for in the first place - helping to build our identities, our way of being in the world.
What you're naming as the efficiency mantra is, in the phenomenological spirit, the "gestell" - the technological mode of revealing that turns everything, including time itself, into standing-reserve. A resource for extraction and management. When we look at thinking as a luxury, then we've already conceded that learning is a resource for production and output rather than formation. I'm thinking back to my middle schoolers who, whenever I tried to slow things down, would often push back against the slowness itself. Like the idea of efficiency is so engrained in their being that we just needed to rush rather than allow our bodies to ease in and consider the conversation.
I'm interested in learning more on the Yutori concept, thank you for sharing that resource. Seems like it is pointing at something we don't think about in western pedagogy - that spaciousness is a pre-condition for learning and identity development.
I have just published an article on the humble chalkboard, the original classroom technology, and the affordances it offers teachers. Slowing down and connecting the students and ideas was the key pedagogy benefit. So, good to see others following the trend!
Really enjoyed this piece! I’ve been reflecting a lot on how our educational systems often punish individuals for slowing down and taking more time to process and understand things. I agree with all of your suggestions and hope to work more of these behaviors into my life this year (:
Really enjoyed this piece! I’ve been reflecting a lot on how our educational systems often punish individuals for slowing down and taking more time to process and understand things. I agree with all of your suggestions and hope to work more of these behaviors into my life this year (:
Love these ideas! One of my favorite activities in class last week was giving students time to do individual drafting just alone, but in the room together. Body doubling, not making it about group work or productivity or noise and activity.
WONDERFUL Post - reliance on technology every minute of every day isn’t healthy - and I don’t believe it’s good for learning - for students or teachers (or parents or almost everyone?)…
Sometimes - taking a break - slowing down & having time to think is valuable! 👍
Agree with your sentiments here and your justifications as to why this is so important… Not just for those “aha moments” we have when we think - just for peace of mind! Thanks for this reminder! 👍😊