"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. (A. E.)

Colleagues on Both Sides of the Desk
   (Coursing w/o Borders series)
 
"We can't solve problems by using
the same kind of thinking we used
when we created them.  (A. E.)
 
Dear Gary,
 
    What are your thoughts on
        Same Kind of Thinking
                  and
  Not-Same Kind of Thinking
     with regard to Teaching &
              Learning?
 
I mean (with no presumption of success)
to put you on the spot collegially here only
maybe to see if it might could start-up
sustained converse action across the
curriculum.
 
Not the 4:00 forum and departmental,
semi-annual retreat or task-force (super
committee) same old same kind of thinking,
but the virtual Hyde Park 24/7/365 accessible
Face Book-like new kind of media of thinking
(if not thinking)  now available for thinking
about  thinking and about teaching & learning
in these troubled and turbulent times.  
 
Thanks to The E-Media, Here we are altogether
now in ways never  before and it should make a
difference in how we teach and learn and think
together about teaching and learning as never
before possible.
 
True?
Need we argue? How else build up a shared
sense of our sames & differences so as
to put them in play?
 
Play and Be Played.  School and Be Schooled.
         Compose and Be Composed.  
 
As Dean of Teaching & Learning (you, not me)
I’m asking: What would you  say  blocks this
resource fullness and local food?
 
US:  considering together the kinds of thinking
we used to that created the problems and the
kinds that might  could . . .

I almost said solve or resolve, and I wonder if
that habit right there  is part of the kind of thinking
that created them.
 
Not only that, but I suspect that even if we failed
to come to terms, up with answers,  measurable
goals and assessable objectives, the activity of  a
collaborative messing around with  IT would still
benefit like anything.

Loving the briar patch
 
Can anyone here describe the  kind-of-thinking we
use/abuse? I don’t think so.
 
It’d be like asking Joe Fish to describe wet.
 
That said, it’s still worth trying, as coaches tell
us:: IT's not whether we win or lose but how we
play the game.   May I have an amen?.
 
In fact, trying to define what we know we  can’t define
 might be considered a new  kind of thinking as long
as we kept in mind the  impossibility and didn’t  fudge. 
 
               Mission Impossible.
 
              Characteristics of
            Collaborative Genius:
              to mistrust answers
               encourage failure
               welcome errors
                make mistakes
                 silly solecisms
                oops omissions
                 split infinity
               typographicals
                     galore
 
What? What the?   (The Spirit of   Enterprise
toward Frontiers Yet Unknown.)
 
xxxooo, Sam