This little scribble comes via Leonie who was talking to child #3 (of 6) who is female, 15 and, imho, very savvy. A discussion about school, what it was like produced a response along these lines.

School is a place where you run a lot of mazes, like rats. So you are put in a maze and asked to find the cheese. So you set off and and run and eventually get through the maze only to find that there is no cheese, only this machine that generates the smell of cheese. Your reward for completing the maze is to do another one.

I think I like this rat.

Welcome a new recruit

I am conscious of not making this "thing" some of us call KPS too much of a thing. In any event, I've been working with a talented woman who has opted to do her Masters research in this area, Sue de Vincentis (spde@deakin.edu.au). Sue is planning on having students make an orientation DVD to a school, something similar to Carmel's work in mt Isa. Sue's research question is: How will a group of students independently execute a school community task which requires specialised knowledge? I've added Sue to the blog list.

On the talking wireless

Leonie and Trudy "appeared" on Radio National this morning talking to Kate Evans about KPS-related stuff. Lots of labels were tossed about including future-proofing kids, engaged learning, real life learning etc. It went well. Kate asked lots of challenging questions and got good thoughtful replies. I'll see if i can pop an MP3 onto the KPS site sometime if folk are interested.