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 [...]
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 [...]
There was a disconcerting (at least for me) response to Stephen Downes’ summary of my post on Wikipedia. While someone else might let it slide, I think I’d like to address it because as I turned it over and over in my head (is it because I’m from, dare I say it, Massachusetts?), I [...]
Here are some worthwhile and interesting responses to and critiques of my last post, The Emergence of Meaning: Wikipedia As Object-Centered Sociality:
Artichoke posted a response positing, “‘What does it do?’ takes precedence… over what it might mean.”
Stephan Downes writes, “…I read the value of Wikipedia differently…. Wikipedia’s article selection also varies - while editors [...]
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, [...]
There is no question in my mind that many of the ways that technology has developed — especially in facilitating the forging of connections between learners and content, learners and teachers, and learners and learners — are great boons to the field of education and to the cause of improving the learning process in general. [...]
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 — [...]
I have to admit it — I have not read Ted Sizer’s seminal book, Horace’s Compromise, until now (I picked it up recently at the More Than Words bookstore). Actually, I’m still reading it, but I found a paragraph in the prologue (page 2) I wanted to share:
We can play at learning, without retaining [...]
It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of the No Child Left Behind Act on a number of levels. Much of the time, the high level of accountability coupled with a lack of adequate funding and the idea of the Federal government intruding into the state enterprise of education are the most [...]
Once again I will be commenting on an extremely thought-provoking post by George Siemens on the Connectivism Blog, Designing ecosystems versus designing learning. He writes,
Instead of designing instruction (which we assume will lead to learning), we should be focusing on designing ecologies in which learners can forage for knowledge, information, and derive meaning. [...]
