Guiding Questions:

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Video(s):

Please watch the following videos this week:

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Readings(s), Optional:

The following optional readings build upon this week's topic:

Discussion Questions:

Please discuss the following questions below. Then throughout the week, try to respond to at least two other comments from your colleagues.

1. Think back on your own school experiences. What kind of thinking did your schools promote? What kind of thinking was lost as a result of being schooled?
2. What does it mean to be "an educated person" in your current community? Please make sure to define where and what your current community is. (e.g., In my current community of academics at Oxford University, "an educatred person" is one that...)
3. What does learning mean to you?
4. Describe your most profound education/learning experience.
5. If you had to design an education system that created "the best thinkers, learners and doers for the world," what would you create?
6. What other ideas or questions came to you while thinking about this week's topic: Global definitions of learning and education?
7. Please respond to at least 2 other comments from your colleagues this week.

Skype Discussion, Optional:

• The optional 1-hour Skype discussion this week will be:

  • June 10th (Sunday): 11:30am Eastern Standard Time ("New York" time).

  • To calculate what time this is in your time zone, Google "Time in New York". Then calculate the time difference between New York and your own time zone. For example, 11:30am EST is 7:30pm Dubai time.

• If you plan to join the optional Skype discussion, please email Anna (anna at boneducation dot com) and let her know that you will be joining the call before the call begins. Also include your Skype user name. 

• If you cannot make the optional Skype discussion time, you are welcome to organize and facilitate another group call with your colleagues.