Remember the essentials of story amid all of the bedazzling tech tools.

"Rhizomatic learning is a way of thinking about learning based on ideas described by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in a thousand plateaus. A rhizome, sometimes called a creeping rootstalk, is a stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots as it spreads. It is an image used by D&G to describe the way that ideas are multiple, interconnected and self-relicating. A rhizome has no beginning or end… like the learning process. I wrote my first article on the topic 'rhizomatic education: community as curriculum' in an article I wrote in 2008."

Cool Rhoda. Been doing a lot thinking over the last week on peer learning networks. Interested to see what things you night come across.

"The essence of life is (interconnected) process. If the processing of material-energy and information ends, life also ends. The defining characteristic of life is the ability to maintain, for a significant period, a steady state in which the entropy (or disorder) within the system is significantly lower than its non-living surroundings. So the sequel to Renan's Law is: "And living systems want to stay connected in order to survive". We see the echo's of this in the Internet Freedom protection projects. Living systems according to Parent (1996) are by definition "open self-organizing systems that have the special characteristics of life and interact with their environment. This takes place by means of information and material-energy exchanges. Living systems can be as simple as a single cell or as complex as a supranational organization such as the European Union. Regardless of their complexity, they each depend upon the same essential twenty subsystems (or processes) in order to survive and to continue the propagation of their species or types beyond a single generation".[4]"