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 community of practice, learning ecology, perturbation on Dec 8th, 2005 Comments Off
Members of a community usually have something in common. Thanks to Francine of Knowledging across life’s curriculum for pointing me (and others) in the direction of objected-centered sociality, based on the work of anthropologist/sociologist Karin D. Knorr Cetina. Jyri Engeström writes,
The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of [...]
Posted in learning ecology, pedagogy on Nov 7th, 2005 Comments Off
I think I’ll riff a little more off of my last lengthier post. In addition to Francine’s references, I also found “Continuous Partial Attention,” and this discussion made me think of Csikszentmihalyi’s notion of flow as well as Buber’s ideas around dialogue. More on this stuff later.
Off to Los Angeles, unfortunately unexpectedly.
Posted in community of practice, connectivism, critical pedagogy, learning ecology, pedagogy, perturbation, technology, tools on Oct 31st, 2005 2 Comments »
There is no question in my mind that our tools of the information age — computers, the Internet, cell phones, all the associated accoutrements — are changing the way we, as participants, do things and even think. That certainly doesn’t mean that these changes are necessarily and always changes for the good.
George Siemens of the [...]
