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 connectivism, critical pedagogy, epistemology, pedagogy, technology, web2.0 on Dec 16th, 2005 Comments Off
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. [...]
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 learning ecology, popular culture, technology on Oct 27th, 2005 Comments Off
Just a couple of weeks ago, I commented on a post at Savage Minds, an anthropology blog I like to read on a regular basis. It seemed like a fair comment on the article, until I returned later and read a few more comments people had left. What I had done was my comment made [...]
