Out of control and thriving!

Marie Jasinski doesn't have a problem with lack of control—in fact she embraces it:

When you lose control, it's amazing how quickly your learners find it and make better use of it than you.

Marie is a self-described edge worker, balancing on the boundary between order and chaos. She has written seven articles for the Australian Flexible Learning Community dealing with applying the "edge of chaos" concept to an educational context—what Marie calls EDUCHAOS!

1. Out of control and thriving!
2. Disruptive Technologies
3. Using improv and storytelling in business
4. Job Sculpting—in tune with making work WORK!
5. Patchworking—showing off your assets
6. Go Conative—where there’s will, you’re away!
7. Tuning in to your own voice!

The third article in the series is a transcript of an interview (MP3) with improvisor and storyteller Kat Koppett. Kat believes as the world becomes increasingly chaotic we can learn from the skills and attitudes of improvisors and storytellers.

At their virtual resource centre, The StoryNet, Kat and co-founder Matthew Richter promote the use of improvisation and storytelling. In the article How to Use Storytelling to Increase Learning Kat and Matthew give practical examples that support their claim that stories offer an alternative to the order and structure of traditional learning, enabling us to "learn without feeling like we are learning."