backchannel conversations with people via social media; and unconferences
Unconference & Backchannels as Sidorkin's Third DiscourseReflecting Allowed | Reflectin... - 3 views
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In many ways, this is the value of the open education movement -- the chance to interact without direct instruction from the "talking head" in the classroom. It's a dip into the unknown, though, and requires a certain social media/reading skills -- what to ignore and what to pay attention to, and how does it all connect to the learning and discovery
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I agree about the talking head!
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one’s own nonsense may be someone else”s sense
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by focusing on my small groups of people (often not even using the hashtag to be honest; sometimes in DM or in private hangouts; other times in public on blogs) I am making my own path as I intersect with others’ paths.
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Teaching Beyond Tropes: What is a bomb? - 1 views
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spite of [probably] [maybe] [sometimes] looking like silly fools.
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If you just want to sound smart, look dignified, write big dense paragraphs, then I don't read on.
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using the article here.
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Been watching this issue unfold with FB and the LGBT community, notably drag queens seeking to remain anonymous or who identify their real name as their drag queen moniker. Problem arises from the fear of letting folks decide for themselves and letting the solutions grow out of those choices. If anything this is the classic case for arguing for the simplest rules possible that arise from living together online. Whatever they might be. Instead of having all the exceptions listed in the article why don't we have them arise from being pseudonymous. And there will be some. And some of them will be deadly. Sadly, we cannot know for certain where the 'felicific calculus' will fall. I put my bets on freedom over policy until I am proven wrong.
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first I had to look up felicific calculus - method of working out the sum total of pleasure and pain produced by an act, and thus the total value of its consequence. I can see both sides of the argument, because pseudonyms can obviously used for harm as well as for the more pragmatic reasons. I agree - let the issues arise from the pseudonyms.
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Connected by Design - YouTube - 0 views
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"In this session Kim Jaxon, Jaimie Hoffman, Danielle Astengo, Jeremy Wallace, and Jim Groom will be discussing various approaches to building a connected courses infrastructure for individual assignments, or an entire course. This session will showcase various sites faculty and graduate students have created over the semester, and hopefully inspire others to create their own connected course hub."
Mimi Ito - Weblog: Connected Learning = Abundant Opportunity + Terror + Hard Attentiona... - 7 views
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Most were reluctant
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Learned behavior, learned mindsets. Unlearning is the devil's own.
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Reminded of my first attempts with zeegas--unclear, uncertain
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And we learn in those uncomfortable moments, including how to create our own agency with technology. With Zeega, you've pushed the boundaries in many directions, Captain Zeega.
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It's scary at first but once you get used to it, it's easier than F2F in my opinion.
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I think I now find it easier than f2f too... That probably requires elaboration, though :) as I know it's not intuitive. I wonder if it is a phase everyone goes through to finally reach that comfort, or if it is just something some people are more disposed to enjoy/be comfortable with, while others not (like intro/extroversion)
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with an online comment/post, there is no interruption, no direct contact to 'see' how others take what you say or do, and this can make it easier- or at least appear 'safer' on a personal front - esp. considering the teens Mimi was talking about... but, there is also a sense of permanence when people write and put something out there, whereas in f2f, what you say is gone in that moment. When something is written, people (potentially anyone) can come back to it, and this can be perceived as a threatening sort of exposure, perhaps even the person writing it might not want to have to see it again... so it is both easier and harder at the same time for different reasons for different people.
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Despite the encouragement of local mentors, they didn’t see themselves are part of that world and ready to contribute, at least not yet.
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Schema. Or as max Stirner calls them,"wheels in the head". Wheels in the head are any ideas that the mind cannot give up. For example, I am not an artist/creator/maker, I am a consumer.
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How do we decide who's enthusiastic? What is being Net Savvy? The difference between introversion, extraversion and the level of ease a person finds in company of others for whatever reason. Are all modes of communications comfortable to everybody and why? On a personal note: I am not comfortable writing at all but I can talk for hours when it comes to f2f :)
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I totally admire your English. It's way better than my Egyptian. ;-)
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I've experienced Maha's talking firsthand via phone and it's awesome :) But I like her writing too, even if she doesn't feel comfortable with it. So cool to have you here in Diigo Maha!
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I'll graciously accept your kindness, both of you /curtsy (a WoW emote, if you're wondering) :) But seriously, I've had managers and even senior mangers who would sit very quietly, apparently (stress on apparently) reluctant to contribute to a conversation/discussion in a training situation. I used to catch myself making assumptions as to why (won't go into that here, too long) then see them fully engaged in an exercise where they had to sit on the floor and use Lego pieces. When I tried different approaches they did join A conversation, not necessarily mine, not necessarily with me watching, but they learned and contributed to the learning. hmmm now I'll start editing myself /lol so better stop and hit post. .
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Yes, I have this problem all the time in the classroom where my expectations get in the way of reality. Trying more to be mindful of this blindspot in my teaching.
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Help! How do I know what to pay attention to?
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A good reminder that everyone has their own thresholds for navigating the flow in a "space" like #ccourses, and that even the most savvy will miss a whole lot of the interactions. That's OK.
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This also raises one of the essential questions of connected learning: what do we attend to and how? We have to have a basis for filtering (another name for attending). Some of these filters are very fine and designed to have potable water as their product, but most are very porous screens designed to get the big rocks out so that we can build meaning with them. And the ability to switch out filters should be one of the hallmarks of a capable person in digital systems.
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Thresholds were originally a barrier to the grain escaping from the threshing room floor and out the door. It was intended to prevent waste. We don't have the same kind of scarcity in a connected space. We can't be concerned about "waste". Instead we have to be obsessed with making sure that we have the best grain in the mill so that we can have the best flour. Maybe we need one out of a hundred of the grains in order to have the very best flour. You don't get that with a threshhold. You get it by finding a way to sort and winnow the best from the rest and not just the wheat from the chaff.
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It's difficult to break out of the traditional concept of following a defined sequential path and instead dip into the stream.
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Yes, #clmooc was my first nonlinear course, and it was a learning curve to grasp the webbed nature of participating - but once I did, it was such a beautiful thing!
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Science of the Invisible: Academic Literacies - 3 views
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