Posted in culture, epistemology, perturbation, popular culture, web2.0 on Jan 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
or, How A Meme With A Reference To A Jew For Jesus Hip Hop Artist Reminded Me Of Dangerous Ideas
I don’t really remember how I got there, but I ended up at memepool, the brainchild of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter and Jeff Smith. Posted on January 5th, 2006, was an entry which read:
The popularity [...]
Posted in culture, epistemology, popular culture, questions, technology on Dec 31st, 2005 Comments Off
Here are some things that are making me think as we transition into 2006:
Joanna Weiss predicts that 2005 will mark the beginning of the end of serendipity.
George Siemens is grappling with the nature of meaning making, learning, and subjectivity.
Doug of Borderland is searching for a “broadened conceptualization of curriculum.”
Lisa Lynch and Bob Stein of the [...]
Posted in community of practice, culture, epistemology, learning ecology, web2.0 on Dec 26th, 2005 1 Comment »
This is the first in an occasional series in which I hope to develop an argument for the continued development of critical literacy skills in “new media.” I am hoping to argue that it is not enough to grapple with the products and artifacts of these new media as “media types” (e.g., video, audio, [...]
Posted in community of practice, critical pedagogy, culture, epistemology, learning ecology, pedagogy, perturbation on Dec 12th, 2005 Comments Off
From the novel I am currently reading, Angry Black White Boy; Or, The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay:
How much respect can you have for something you refuse to criticize?
Often in the blogosphere it seems that new ideas and practices are touted, celebrated, embraced, and sometimes even followed with a very short — or even non-existent — [...]
Posted in attention, connectivism, culture, education research, perturbation, technology, time on Nov 26th, 2005 2 Comments »
With a toddler, a half-time job with full-time responsibilities, a dad-ship, a husband-ship, a strong sense of civic duty and right-and-wrong, and a desire to keep up with this blog thing, I often feel myself being pulled in multiple directions at once. The end result is that basically nothing gets done or done all [...]
