FUTURE CLASSROOM 1 (forked pedagogy song of a Dean's words)

A video collage highlighting Limited Fork Theory English classes at the University of Michigan from 2005-2007.

Dean Terry's words about the classroom of the future become the lyrics of a Strexxed out song celebrating the already transformed Limited Fork learning space in which the interconnectedness of knowledge from any/all areas of study is already practiced.

Interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives are not goals, but are points of departure within a system of thinking and configuring meanings in which interconnectedness is assumed. Limited Fork Theory is a hub and network approach that appreciates configurations of meaning as multifaceted super clusters of varying geometries.

Some highlights of Dean Terry's interview comments are his call for "teachers to act more like coaches, guiding students to information" instead of telling students what to think, and his suggesting that teachers should not continue to rely on previous years' lecture notes, but should instead take advantage of the wealth of information available through "plugged-in" sources, helping students sort through the vast amounts of information, learning how to identify the more relevant, reliable, and useful information, and how to distinguish that useful information from less useful information.

"Future Classroom 1" features undergraduate and graduate students of Limited Fork Theory and Limited Fork Theory undergraduate and graduate student projects. The setting is DL1, a learning space that is not called a classroom; DL1 stands for "Design Lab 1."

Music by Strexx (http://www.strexxaudiolab.com and http://www.youtube.com/Strexxaudiolab), lyrics by Dean Terry, of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; vocals by Thylias Moss.

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[cesarharada]

At the beginning, I was looking at the separated screens, but gave up once there was something interesting in multiple screens, I was able then to experience more an abstract sense of the overall film. I believe our abilities are evolving in this directions, inter-operability, multi-layered, synesthesic. Exellent, interesting!

[forkergirl]

Thank you very much.

I think that the senses function within panoramas generally, wide fields of experience that we are learning to utilize for more options in our making and expression --in the poams (products of acts of making) that document, in any ways that are and become possible, experience.

Thanks again for your comment.