Posted in culture, epistemology, perturbation, popular culture, web2.0 on Jan 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in pedagogy, teaching, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Jan 19th, 2006 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in flickr, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Jan 7th, 2006 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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. [...]
