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Category Archives: education
Selfish Blogger Syndrome
The Selfish Blogger. Well that could certainly be me! So I’ll stick to form and post my thoughts here rather than in Tony Bates‘s comment stream. I have not been following #Change11 except through the blogs of people I found … Continue reading
Philosophy News | My Philosopher Can Beat Up Your Computer Scientist
Philosophy News | My Philosopher Can Beat Up Your Computer Scientist. Philosophy’s perceived market disrespect (inferiority complex ?) is a reaction to the fact that there is no philosophy credential which predicts any useful skill any more effectively than any … Continue reading
The Case for Play
The Case for Play – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education. “OK kids, you can stop your creative paper folding exercise now and the monitor will collect your products for evaluation. And now, let’s take a break … Continue reading
Learning Theories
In all of my efforts to participate in Connectivist MOOCS (#CritLit2010, #PLENK2010, #CCK11) I have run into a roadblock when discussion turned to “Learning Theories” and I have found myself unable to express (or perhaps even determine) what I want … Continue reading
More MOOCs
Massively Open On-Line Courses allow large numbers of people to participate at varying levels of commitment in a process of shared learning. Part of the openness aspect is that there are many avenues of participation and rather than relying on … Continue reading
Superman or Supermoms?
Davis Guggenheim, director of ‘Waiting for Superman’ has asked for and received some feedback from teachers. When I saw the film, what struck me as the most invidious distortion (among many) was the failure to acknowledge that the children on … Continue reading
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PLENK2010
Over the last three months I spent a considerable amount of time following the #PLENK2010 Massive Open OnLine Course organized by Dave Cormier, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, and George Siemens.
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Personal Knowledge Management
The #PLENK2010 topic for discussion in Week 8 is PKM.
Cute Math Problem
This came up in a Math Ed discussion at LinkedIn. Here A, B, and C are three finite sets. If half of the As are Bs and half of the Bs are Cs and half of the Cs are As, … Continue reading
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Learning Theories
. . . are something about which I have no expertise – but that’s never stopped me from sounding off about anything else, so here goes:
Network Environments for Personal Learning
In week 2, the focus of #PLENK2010 shifted from the basic terminology, and emphasis on user “client-side” tools to the “server-side” area of support tools
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myPE(N)L ctd
So here is my current Personal Environment for Networked Learning (which I think of as the interface with physically remote people and information):
My PE(N)L
is a mess (like this post) because my data streams are not well integrated.
PLENK Feeds
My Sept 13 post on PLEvsPLN does show up in the link from the #PLENK2010 Feeds List, but never seems to have been captured by the aggregator for the Daily. So I’m giving it another go here just to see … Continue reading
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PLENK Week 1
Week 1 of the #PLENK2010 course on Personal Learning Environments, Networks and Knowledge is devoted mainly to getting used to the terminology.
@maferarenas on microblogging and learning
My linking to this is evidence for @Downes of more real interesting learning from #CritLit2010. But it’s not just the shape of the network that’s important here; it’s also the semantic content of what we are linking about. (If we … Continue reading
Assessing Learning in #CritLit2010
Stephen Downes post on Semantics at Half an Hour: Having Reasons is devoted largely to the issue of how to establish the well-foundedness aspect of knowledge as well-founded true belief. A large part of the discussion was devoted to the … Continue reading
Ulop’s Theory
In the follow-up to #CritLit2010, Ulop OTaat (whoever he may be) has expressed a theory about what the educational theory called “Connectivism” is (or is not). Basically he appears skeptical of its value as more than just a new lingo … Continue reading
CritLit2010
#CritLit2010 is now over. I enrolled in this largely out of curiosity about what it would entail and in the knowledge that my travel plans for subsequent weeks would make it difficult to devote much time to it. I was … Continue reading
Categories, Links, and Tags
Both Heli Nurmi and MCMorgan have commented on the CritLit2010 week 4 reading from Clay Shirky Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags. I can’t help feeling that the idea that search based on content and tags will … Continue reading