If 15 to 17 hours a day spent online experimenting and experiencing is an average time commitment needed for the average academic to come to terms with social media, and understand the potential it has for learning and teaching – and God help us if it is – then the movement is doomed.
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Hyperconnectivity and Overuse | TechTicker - 3 views
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there is simply not enough flexibility and space allotted for open exploration of emerging technologies during working hours
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in some regards the emergence of hyperconnectivity arises from working conditions and obstacles to access as much as personal research obsessions.
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Digress.it is a plugin for WordPress that supports discussion at a far finer level than is traditionally available on most blogs. Rather than limiting conversations to a single field at the bottom of a post, digress.it "lets you comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text." -- Mike Bogle, TechTicker
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I'm continually looking for a way to use this but so far haven't found one. For personal blogs with fairly short posts it's a bit of overkill I think, but I could easily see it used for longer pieces - especially where you're meticulously analysing or interpreting things.
Regaining some perspective | TechTicker - 0 views
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I also sometimes wonder what role – if any – that the writing process (blogging) has played in this. This is hardly to suggest that blogging makes you a radical. However through ongoing reflection and exploration of ideas, I think it can solidify and sharpen existing opinions, and take what may have once been only the seeds of thought and grow them into something far more substantial.
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In some regards the topic of education is just as contentious as that of politics, and all too easy to become divided by false or artificial delineations. If we’re going to start to make progress and bring learning and teaching into the 21st century I think the best, most effective, and sustainable way to achieve this is to do it together.
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Thought-provoking - thanks, Mike
Technology and Restoration of Voice | TechTicker - 5 views
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A colleague in the faculty is currently researching the opportunities that use of asynchronous discussion forums can offer to leveling the playing field, and providing more equitable opportunities for people to share their thoughts. From what I’ve heard, the results so far are exceptionally promising.
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Want!
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So how do I get in on that research?
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The Philosophy of Edtech Loose Constructionism | TechTicker - 5 views
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The view that experimentation is bad; that mistakes are a pox to be ashamed of, rather than opportunities for learning and re-evaluation; that unique approaches are a thing to be scoffed at – these are all shortsighted views that need to be cut out from the root.
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Subverting the dominant paradigm should be job one for educators anyway.
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