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We need to ask ourselves some fundamental questions – and the most
fundamental is “what is education?” and “what does it mean to prepare students
for their lives in the 21st century”?.

Yoram mentioned many times that schooling has been a very successful
sociological experiment, but a failure for our students because of our
inconsistency in our pedagogical frameworks.

Yoram jokingly says that we operate as if it “Doesn’t matter what you teach
so long as it’s boring!”

Essentially we have to find, what Yoram calls, “our pedagogical sentiment”.
There are lots of slogans, but what is our real authentic pedagogy or stance?
How do we turn our classrooms into a community – a community of thinkers? He
wants students to experience knowledge as human creation.

The thing we are investigating is Yoram’s Third Model which
is about ‘disruptive intelligence’,
about sharing ideas, working together because

thinking is a dialogic
and societal process.

Our purpose should be about putting dialectic
pressure on students. If we are flexible and sensitive then teaching can support
learning. I love the idea of ‘teacher as therapist!’

Yoram is also a strong advocate of ‘story’, and the human narrative, which
fits very well with digital story in a Web 2.0 context as well. As he explains,
knowledge is created by human beings - it is storytelling which helps put order
into our chaotic life and insert some logic into the mystery of life. We want
our students to create their own stories, their own interpretation, and original
ways to solutions.

Knowledge is not an object – Knowledge is a ‘story that
works’

The Department of Education and Children’s Services in South Australia
provides a good series of informative links for Dr Yoram Harpaz.