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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in community of practice, connectivism, critical pedagogy, epistemology, pedagogy, perturbation on Sep 5th, 2005 Comments Off
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. [...]
Posted in buffy the vampire slayer, perturbation, popular culture on Aug 18th, 2005 Comments Off
If it’s to last, then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be… smelly.- Rupert Giles, “I Robot… You Jane,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I’ve always had a soft spot for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As I recently mentioned to someone, if Buffy’s not about human nature, I don’t know what is. I [...]
