From visual searches to verbal searches, (without intending to pull an Annie Hall) Marshall “The Medium Is The Message” McLuhan must be having a celestial party right now.
Podzinger is a search engine for podcasts. Rather than allowing you to just search for a podcast based on the title, description, tags, or categories (as podcasting [...]
Has anyone stopped to think about how computers might be different if the first widespread human-personal computer input device was the sketch pad and not the keyboard? I usually try to avoid the googly-eyed “wow” factor of new technologies, but this one, Retrievr, is very cool and has the potential for facilitating access for [...]
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 — [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
I just finished reading (again!) But Not The Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton to my one-year-old son (he’s at the point where he gets ecstatic about reading the same book over and over — Where’s Maisy? by Lucy Cousins is another one he loves again and again and again). To sum up the book, a [...]
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. [...]
