Lee Chazen
Founder of GliderCell - a content development, strategy and content architecture service. https://www.glidercell.com/. Areas of specialty include (but are not limited to) education, technology, government and politics. Career: I've mostly worked as a teacher, educational content developer, content strategist and musician. After graduating high school, I went on to earn a BA from Colorado State University in political science (with minor in history and concentration in Russian and East Central European studies). Went on from there to earn a teaching certification from the University of Nevada, Reno and then, eventually, a master’s degree in Education from California State University, Sacramento. My focus in education has been mainly in game and project-based learning. After seven years of using a “user-generated” format in the classroom, I decided to study the reason why games work so well and completed a master’s in education, writing my thesis on “A Complex Adaptive Theory of Education.” My experience with this type of learning goes all the way back to the 6th grade when a teacher asked us to create future cities. Later on, as a teacher, I would have the opportunity to do something similar. Experimentally, my students and I partnered to create our own “world.” Global Challenge, as it came to be known, would teach students about world history, while giving them the opportunity to create laws, a system of governance, their own currency and a functioning economy. Since then, I have mainly done contract work in the areas of gamification, content development / strategy and social media.Ongoing projects include HikeStorming, a group that combines hiking with brainstorming and The GliderCell Podcast, an experimental show that explores creativity and thought experiments. I’m deeply honored to have had memorable career moments that include performing on French Horn for a tour of Poland, serving on the National Field staff for a Presidential campaign, coordinating / promoting a trade mission of Silicon Valley CEOs to Russia, organizing a TEDx event and co-hosting/ the Education Super Collider in 2012. As a French Horn player since the age of 7, I've played with various symphony orchestras, wind ensembles and brass quintets. https://rightbrainworld.blogspot.com/https://soundcloud.com/glidercellhttp://theglobalchallengeproject.blogspot.com/https://www.meetup.com/hikestorm/https://www.facebook.com/hikestorming/
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Though chaos theory has been researched since the 1960s, it has only recently been applied in a limited way to education and the social sciences. Some research suggests that a problem inherent in education is the application of the scientific-deterministic model (the standard cause and effect/outcome model) underlying the philosophy guiding most schools. Some educators and researchers have concluded that this model imposes too much order on learning; restricting student and teacher possibilities for connections, limiting the flow of information between subject areas, stifling student and teacher curiosity, creativity and potential for growth. Of equal importance, is the problem that ideas and innovations are often introduced but have only limited local effects. Innovations do not rise to the top. The question is whether or not a new, more adaptive and emergent model might address this problem.
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Though chaos theory has been researched since the 1960s, it has only recently been applied in a limited way to education and the social sciences. Some research suggests that a problem inherent in education is the application of the scientific-deterministic model (the standard cause and effect/outcome model) underlying the philosophy guiding most schools. Some educators and researchers have concluded that this model imposes too much order on learning; restricting student and teacher possibilities for connections, limiting the flow of information between subject areas, stifling student and teacher curiosity, creativity and potential for growth. Of equal importance, is the problem that ideas and innovations are often introduced but have only limited local effects. Innovations do not rise to the top. The question is whether or not a new, more adaptive and emergent model might address this problem.