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Mimi Ito - Weblog: Connected Learning = Abundant Opportunity + Terror + Hard Attentiona... - 7 views

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  • Most were reluctant
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Learned behavior, learned mindsets. Unlearning is the devil's own.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Reminded of my first attempts with zeegas--unclear, uncertain
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      It's scary at first but once you get used to it, it's easier than F2F in my opinion.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      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)
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 28 Sep 14
       
      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.
  • Despite the encouragement of local mentors, they didn’t see themselves are part of that world and ready to contribute, at least not yet.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 26 Sep 14
       
      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 :)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Sep 14
       
      I totally admire your English.  It's way better than my Egyptian. ;-)
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      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!
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 28 Sep 14
       
      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. .
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 14
       
      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.
  • Help! How do I know what to pay attention to?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      It's difficult to break out of the traditional concept of following a defined sequential path and instead dip into the stream.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      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!
  • ...29 more annotations...
  • Quiet
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      Still on my reading list ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Check out the TED talk above for the tl;dr version.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      That book helped me and others I know to realise that being an introvert was not a weakness, and to accept ourselves and not push against who we are.
  • “xdogx”
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      See: https://flic.kr/p/p7rUiM  for my comic response (of sorts)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      great comic response :)
  • In many ways these different forms of participation fit into what Internet product people might call an > engagement funnel where newcomers and the less net savvy like me march steadily from awareness to engagement to becoming active contributors and content generators.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      Yes, and we need to value all levels of the participation, too. Us loudies need to make sure we are inviting, not shouting so loud that others feel they can't contribute, or feel guilty about not contributing. Now that I think of it, my own appeal for more facilitators to get involved in the social media spaces of CCourses runs into conflict with that very statement. Dang it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      No, I think it can be reconciled,Kevin. If other step up, you can step back or shout in a different direction or encourage and cajole in different spaces. Or just chill and observe and report back.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 26 Sep 14
       
      @Kevin I don't think there's a conflict. More involvement is not equal to shouting so loud. May be we need to think of being more inviting in more ways?
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 26 Sep 14
       
      I also don't see a conflict but I do think the question of what the right invitations are is crucial. Having the "loudies" (lol) to keep modeling high engagement is essential and I at least have appreciated the individual pokes and invitations from this same core group.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Love this thread, and thank you Maha and Mimi for letting us know that we "loudies" (cute term, will adopt!) are not shouting too loud for you (though we may be too loud for others)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I never thought of myself as a loudie, and am on the introvert-side of the continuum for sure, but the folks at #clmooc taught me that exponential things happen when you jump in.  Thise who are "too" quiet may not know what they are missing.
  • colliding through a loosely orchestrated cross-network remix
  • constellation
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      I am big on the constellation metaphor -- the stories that emerge when stars are connected by imagination.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Made me think of u immediately, Kevin, that thing u did for #clmooc - the word constellation evokes that for me now
  • This heterogeneity can feel like chaos and collision of competing styles and expectations, but I also see it as a site of productive tension that is characteristic of connected learning. Connected learning is predicated on bringing together three spheres of learning that are most commonly disconnected in our lives: peer sociability, personal interests/affinity, and opportunities for recognition. In kids’ lives these are friends, interest-based activities, and school. In connected courses, this is the reciprocity and fun in the social stream, our personal interests and expertise, and institutional status/reputation.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      Dang. She hits a home run with this paragraph!
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Simon Ensor's Clavier Project simplifies this to providing an interesting space so that interesting people can do interesting 'things'.  I admire the abstraction here and would love to see the practice in the previous paragraph.  Phonar/clmooc/ds106/diy.org/kqed's do now/Paul Allison's Youth Voices. This is where this theory tears into the road and the rubber either stays on the tire or you get new tires.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 26 Sep 14
       
      I am not sure how are they disconnected? I see them as intersecting. Take the example of someone playing a team sport that they love. All spheres are represented and interconnected almost merging together. School and work can be sketchy where, depending on teachers,managers, colleagues, available choices etc, some spheres become larger or smaller and affect the balance of the picture.
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 26 Sep 14
       
      Maha that must mean you are a connected learner :). Sadly I feel a lot of kids are "learning" just for the grade and they don't see it as part of what they are interested in or what they are socially connected to.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Maha's and Mimi's responses are a good reminder about how connection is not just about online or tech. It should be obvious but we can sometimes forget that!
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am still struggling to get teachers to see the value of this connecting.  I know, it's a marathon.
  • We are still struggling with how to capture some of the complexity of the activity of connected courses.
  • neck and neck race
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      And what is interesting -- most of their tweeting has been making connections together (I think -- no data to back that up. Jamieson?), as Simon and Maha work magic in the social media sphere.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Yeah, what is more interesting is the amount of UNHASHTAGGED tweeting between us (Simon, Kevin, Terry, Susan) as well as other stuff where i stop using the #ccourses tag... I sometimes do it on purpose to reduce my noise; other times to just squeeze a few extra chars in, and sometimes for semi-privacy. Until recently, Alan and Mariana were top tweeters, too. Tho i find the majority of their tweeting "supportive" as in, helping others, which i love about them both, whether it is official or unofficial
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I admittedly get caught up and forget to hashtag.  :)
  • We can see that so far about half our visitors are new, and that the spikes, again come with the live events
  • I hope that we can continue to embrace the abundance and diversity of forms and intensity of engagement while also guiding each other to try something new, to slow down or speed up our default metabolism, or appreciate a new perspective or geekdom.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      and the unexpected ...
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Definitely the unexpected :)
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Ito's listing here is important.  They are all examples of the social craft of connecting which is a subset of the discipline of teaching and learning.
  • co-facilitators
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      One of those filters is the folk and all manner of them, expert and otherwise.  The lived experience of the folk is one of the most profound filters we have.  Books are another.  The idea of ideas is another.  Metaphor and figurative language in general are others.  I think the notion of love is one of the most profound filters there is.
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 27 Sep 14
       
      My team had a motto back in the early days of Internet studies: "The best search engine is a well-informed friend." I am probably defaulting to this as my filter strategy. Not sure if this is the right one given the opportunity for new encounters on ccourses though.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Well, Mimi, you can add to your list of well-informed friends as you go :) that's how it works for me, a few key people connect me to everything and everyone else, then i'll meet a new person who becomes "key" coz i love what they help me connect to... And so on :)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      Love as a filter- yes, yes.
  • ruminating on the implications for Connected Courses
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      This would be a very profound filter to read about. Not what Ito found in her research but how she mucks about it, how her ruminations follow and work.  Her discoveries on how she filters the great steaming compost of her research from start to intial finish. 
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 27 Sep 14
       
      I wish there was more conscious method to the madness... It's not that I don't have any systematic process, but I really rely on having mental space for pattern recognition to happen over time and that's why I think I'm challenged by the pace of ccourses. I do like the metaphor of filtering that you're bringing to this. I find the thought that good filters might exist to be comforting. But I don't have them! I tend to rely on immersion more than filtering as a method I guess. Which is anthropological... but at some point, yes, one does need to make some choices!
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      This is all getting me itchy to read about Mimi's work on researching connecting learning for several reasons: 1. I want to know how she researched it when she's not comfortable on twitter (haha) 2. I am interested to know about research methodology 3. I fell in love with Mimi reading this post and I want to immerse myself in her work and anything she writes!!! Strange how seeing Mimi on hangout for a few mins did not give me much insight but this post was like..wow... I can't explain the profound effect it had on me, both for my own reflections but also how it made me feel and think about Mimi.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I hope Mimi is reading these comments :)
  • the most awesome staff
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Yes, how have the staff been involved.  How are they filtering and testing and adjusting and doing?  They are deep in the mill, grinding the wheat, keeping out the chaff.  
  • feeling the pull of the fragments of notes
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      If you are feeling the pull of the notes you should succumb to their siren call and gives us those unpolished notes.  Just let us know that they are just that.  Let us filter them if they really are pulling at you. 
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 27 Sep 14
       
      I suppose I could think aloud on twitter more. It's hard to find time to find the quiet time to pull together a blog post. Or maybe I'm setting the threshold too high on blogging :)!
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      I love what Tania Sheko has done: put together her annotations into a blogpost. I understand that not all people can blog as often and not all feel comfy with unfinished thoughts being out in the open. It's a risk, and i regret it sometimes. But i think there is a middle way for people like Mimi who can blog such awesomeness but feel they cannot do it as frequently. One really useful way of blogging is to curate what you've been reading. I do it sometimes to help me organize my thoughts, and also to let people know i appreciate their work. Mimi's post we are annotating here did so much of that for me and did not feel long at al actually. It was v engaging and full and rich.
  • social stream that I know I’m missing.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Yes, you are missing something.  I take solace in the disturbing fact that almost every stream of infor mation you might have received was only so much noise.  It is only when you drink it in that it becomes signal.  Your signal and your meaning. The faith we need is that our system of connections is robust enough to be trusted.  So...the system of connections both digital and actual is what is 'holy'.  It is what we do to honor that web and remake that web that is our greatest task.  Connecting is a social craft.  It is time we started honoring it as such.
  • I’ve so appreciated observing and learning from my more experienced online co-facilitators as they surf the rapids;
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      I have spent the better part of the last two summers internalizing and then externalizing your research into connected learning--the values and principles you have so carefully drawn out of your research.  We are surfing the rapids on the kayak that you and your researchers designed especially facilitators from #clmooc.
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 26 Sep 14
       
      Thank you for this Terry and for your courage in surfing the rapids!
  • I don’t even know what to say about @cogdog Alan who apparently can comment on blogs and make a GIF while hosting a live event.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      I think that praise is due here to Alan,  but I would like to remind you that there is a web of unsung and unheralded and unknown that are yet to be uncovered.  it is our work as facilitators and helpers and participants to tease and ease them onto the dance floor.  God knows they can boogie better than I can if we can just get them onto the floor and teach us how to juke.
  • “legitimate peripheral participants,”
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Actually I prefer descriptions of what people do when they legitimately and peripherally participating.  The abstractification of digital space I think is the occupational hazard of researchers.  it is my job to shout out that the emperor has no clothes.  What is legitimate and what is peripheral and how is that different from marginal and what constitute participant membership?  No...freaking...clue.  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      cornucopia/distributed network/cop/ cross-network remix/immersive theater/funnel/community/hybrid/constellation/stances. I am confused. Good.
  • or that the delicate social machinery we’ve stitched together is going to fall apart
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      The only way it will fall apart is if you don't trust the users to pick up the slack in the web.
  • Living at the collision of multiple CoPs, funnels of engagement and streams means that we can all find a way to succeed!
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Reminds me of a pinball.
  • mmersive theater where participants are all experiencing a different narrative.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      This is interesting to try to visualize; it takes my mind into photos of intertwined galaxies.  I wonder sometimes "how" different the narratives are that we each experience.  Perhaps the similarity fades as you move away from each rhizome that you participate in.  Of course, our perception of our narrative is crucially affected by our lens, our filter(s), our biases.
  • sequentially by different facilitators
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am curious how different facilitators will dip in differently...
  • pulled together some stats
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am glad you pointed this out - I had no idea these were on the CC site!
  • Our “open” rate on the emails to subscribers is a whopping 50.7% compared to the industry standard of 16.7%
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      interesting...I had no idea.
  • Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
     
    Wow -- this piece by Mimi Ito deserves the full annotation/comment of the group. Let's get into it!
  • swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
     
    Wow -- this piece by Mimi Ito deserves the full annotation/comment of the group. Let's get into it!
Kevin Hodgson

Newest Syndicated Blogs | Connected Courses - 0 views

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  • Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
     
    Wanted to add this list of blogs to our Diigo and point out the "random post generator" -- I've been doing regular travels around the CCourse blogosphere because it seems as if commenting is not really happening on any grand scale here.
Kevin Hodgson

Random CCourse Blog Generator - 0 views

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ccourses blogging generator

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  • Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
     
    Give it a try ...
Terry Elliott

Howard Rheingold Connected Courses - How is #ccourses going? Where should it go? Let's ... - 6 views

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ccourses literacies howard rheingold connected unconference

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    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 22 Sep 14
       
      I see it as a a rich space where I am responsible for my own learning and knowing.  But I am also responsible for those who are with me.  I worry that I don't get more of a sense of who has skin in the game and who doesn't.  I am trying to use these tools in my own connected courses, I am trying to connect with students here and in those classes.  How do I make connecting as routine as a syllabus AND how do I make it as valued as a syllabus.  I want to know more about how I can navigate the existing sharky waters of hied. How have others used aikido moves to enable connected values and principles in what amount to mostly unconvivial sharing tools.  
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 23 Sep 14
       
      My only wonder/concern is that other than you, Howard (and Alan, to some degree, earlier), facilitators seem to be absent from the online conversations, other than the scheduled video hangouts.  It can feel a bit ... like the classrooms that Connected Courses is trying to remix, where the knowledgeable person in the front of the room (or in the hangout on my screen), talks and shares expertise, but then is not all that active in the ancillary conversations going on outside of the classroom (hangout).  Tell me I am missing those conversations, and I will be happy/content in that knowledge.  When I bounce around the blogs, I am most often likely to see you (Howard), Terry, Mariana, and a few others in the comment sections. Maybe more plans for projects like #WhyIteach are in the mix (hope so) and ways to get folks to make content (a shared ethos of open learning? A collaborative letter to a Dean about the need for more connective learning? etc) connect deeper will emerge (doubly-hope-so).
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 24 Sep 14
       
      You just reminded me: I see nothing in the course design that helps people who are TEACHING students and involving them in #ccourses to help those students interact with each other. I am mostly seeing other educators here...
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 24 Sep 14
       
      Agreeing with Kevin here. There are a couple of other facilitators active in some spaces. Helen on twitter and blogs (did not realize she was a facilitator at first, though); Mia Zamora (she's a facilitator, right?) and Jonathan on Google+ and Mimi is starting to respond on Twitter now. But in general, I would have expected the facilitators to be active throughout and across. The only ones who are really doing that are Howard and Alan. As in, they were there from the very beginning (pre-pre-course) and everywhere in all spaces, "listening" & responding. Not every facilitator can read/listen to everything (though Alan/Howard almost seem like they do! don't know how!) but given the sheer number of facilitators their responsive presence has potential to be so much stronger.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 25 Sep 14
       
      I am agreeing with Kevin and Maha.
  • a better sense of how the course is being perceived and how participants would like to see it go in the future
    • Howard Rheingold
      Howard Rheingold on 24 Sep 14
       
      I hear you and we're working on it. Give it a few days and you'll see some action.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 25 Sep 14
       
      You guys are the greatest.  Really proud to be working with you.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      I realize, too, my comment goes against the grain of Connected Learning. While I appreciate all the facilitators, I shouldn't sit around and wait for them. As Howard notes, "What it is, is up to us."
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      I don't think its going against the grain, exactly, Kevin. It's a kind of speaking out. And it's also the case that some learners need more direction, or more support or explicit permission in knowing they can take their own direction... If that makes sense?
Terry Elliott

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    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      Reminds me of the Miranda warning,  Love how these are custom made comics with a very specific audience that still strive for a wider one
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      That's the idea -- generate a visual based on concepts and things I am hearing. And poke fun at everyone, in a gentle way (unless your corporate name is Pearson)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      Very powerful point here. thinking also about European Union making  Google acknowledge our right to be forgotten.  One of the reasons why I like duckduckgo as a search engine.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      Love the reference here to Susan's posts?
  • ...3 more annotations...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      Is this really Starship CLMOOC?  Is #ccourses too locked down like a course? 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
       Are these really opposed? System A and System B? Reconcileable? Balanceable?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      Thanks for the Posner reference. It has some real relevance in #ccourses and hied. So practical.
Terry Elliott

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  • I would like to imagine that in the future our children will look at the enclosures in which past generations were kept as absurd anachrosnism.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      The first time I used blogs in the secondary high school I first taught at it felt like a not only opening up the cages, but also knocking holes in the walls so that no one could ever use them as cages again.  At least for the students who I was working with, I think this was true.  Once they tasted that freedom there was no going back.  The ultimate check valve.
  • Whatever happened to grand narrative?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      Well...maybe it's all grand narrative all the way down.  For example,  I had a grand day outside.  Frost was expected last night so we had to dig our peanuts and check out the sweet potatoes to see if they were ready to dig (tradition here is to dig them after a frost).  I think we are going to get about a five to one return on the peanuts (yield per pound planted) and God knows on the sweet taters.  That is a grand narrative isn't it.  One of the grandest narratives.  Agriculture.  And it is not one that without its...sad side.  I was introduced to a grander narrative only a short while after we had battened down the garden to save the tomatoes and peppers and flowers from frost.  My wife discovered a corn snake trapped in some bird netting.  Corn snakes are the glory of the constrictors round these parts.  Bright orange with diamonds patterns and black and white bellies.  Astonishing.  If you catch sight of of one in the wild you cannot believe that such a creature could hide from anything.  Too bright.  Too shiny.  Yet...I have seen them slither away and disappear like the Cheshire Cat.   We cut the netting away from him/her.  Took her away from where the chickens might do her in (chickens are notorious snake enemies) and released her.  She immediately serpentined about in a threatening "s" to let us know that she was not to be anthropomorphized. Three feet of grand narrative, millions of years old, with a legacy that lives on in one of the parts of our triune brain.  I was unconsciously sweating the whole time I was cutting her away from the netting with scissors. I could not help it.  That narrative is a potent legacy, not to be thrown off by my rational self that told me over and over that there was no danger.  That is a grand narrative.   So here I relate the narrative with words (pix to follow in a blog post).  Whatever happened to the grand narrative?  Is anyone an island entire unto herself?  Should we not consider the unveilin
  • fellow 'students' appeared to have their lives mapped out.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      Maps into the future--nothing inherently wrong with that.  The danger is in thinking that any cartographer could draw one for us.  We are not alone in this struggle, but we are still Daniel Boone when it comes to blazing our own trail.  Any other map is the wrong one pulled from the cosmic junk drawer, the Procrustean one that will make us fit.  Now that is a myth that comes true every day. 
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  • He had become too dependent on his comfort.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      I was looking for a reference to the paradoxical phrase "risks may be our safeties in disguise" when I found a post I had written in Blogger in 2001 (http://tellio.blogspot.com/2001/06/my-eyes-are-shot.html).  The takeaway quote is this: "I think John Berryman once said in a sonnet that risks may be our safeties in disguise. I put my hope in that paradox. I put my heart in the safety of change."  So, Enso, the grand narrative is this: [Animated gif of the undrawing of the enso]
Terry Elliott

http://zeega.com/168312 - 0 views

zeega.com/168312

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  • #ccourses Module 2 - Trust and Network Fluency
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Wow. You can annotate the text in a zeega.  Need someone else to verify that they can see this in the Group
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Love the counter turns of the two women in the focus of the gif's frame. And the implicit question.
  • Do we have the right to be forgotten?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      As a teacher I think that ideally we need to be forgotten.  Our students need to make their learning their own.  It is generation of their capability that we celebrate not ours in midwiving/husbanding it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Yet the kitty hides, blissful like a child playing peekaboo.
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  • The "Reservoir of Reciprocity" -
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Sometimes I don't trust anybody.  Sometimes I lay myself open, vulnerable and without shield.
Terry Elliott

Mimi Ito - Weblog: Trust Falls and My Whys for Connected Courses - 1 views

itofisher.com/..._falls_and_my_why_for_con.html

connected courses #ccourses mimi ito trust why

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  • o although I am one of the hosts/facilitators I am doubly a n00b in the connected courses sense - new to cMOOCs as well as new to course design. Which means I am thoroughly enjoying taking the plunge as a learner in all of this and muddling through the why of my teaching as I go.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
       
      Nice acknowledgment
  • best kind of trust fall exercise for someone who is used to pausing and polishing before sharing.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
       
      Thinking in public = trust exercise. Excellent observation.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Lowering of boundaries is often not encouraged in traditional academic structures.  Too bad.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      And so glad you are taking the risk and jumping through the ether into you know not what.
  • encouraged me to keep thinking in public
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  • I feel very much buoyed by generous ways in which the connected courses participants have responded to the inevitable glitches in facilitating this course, and my thinking aloud in public as we go.
  • we are all bringing our heterogeneous whys to this experience.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
       
      Love: 'our heterogenous whys'.
  • he other is the connected course that I am designing together with other DML colleagues.
  • there can’t be a singular why for connected courses
  • Even with different dispositions that pull in different directions, I like that connected courses is pushing us both into productive discomfort and growth.
  • ach facilitator brought a different angle and expertise, and we wanted to honor that and give people space to stretch out and develop their own whys.
  • For the mission statement, first there is the what:
  • he why more broadly
  • ur goal is to build an inclusive and expansive network of teachers, students, and educational offerings that makes high quality, meaningful, and socially connected learning available to everyone.
  • Our goal setting out was to provide a professional development opportunity for faculty who are setting out to teach a connected course
  • the why that we may have set out with as instigators of the course is not the why that all participants bring to the course.
  • And this is a feature of a connectivist experience that should be embraced.
  • every co-learner is facilitating by participating.
  • So if I take off the organizer hat, as a co-learner my personal why is that I want to experience and learn more about the cMOOC approach
  • Connected courses is my first time living through this kind of learning with my own professional community.
  • So as a learner, I guess at least some of my why tracks to the explicit learning goal that we set up as organizers when we started out.
  • newly emergent whys
  • building more ties between educational practice and research
  • I’m starting to geek out on engagement metrics for the course, and thinking through how we can track the cascading effects of an experience like connected courses as it influences educator practice and in turn shapes student experiences.
  • How can we better tell a story through research and evidence about why these kinds of connected learning experiences are important?
  • And can we mobilize our networks to tell this story in a way that supports the diverse collectives that are intersecting here?
  • issues that @mdvfunes and Jenny Mackness have raised on the “tyranny of the open” and the pressures of normative expectations of participation
  • it seems worthwhile to reflect on these more pervasive kinds of risks or exclusions, silencing and just feeling plain old overwhelmed
  • I like this idea of “heterotopia” that Ferreday and Hodgson suggest as a way of charting a pathway through these dynamics.
  • I may be idealistic about this, but I do think it is possible avoid the tyranny of the majority and support and value multiple forms of participation and the varied whys that each co-learner brings to this network.
  • Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
     
    #ccourses Unit 2 Trust
  • Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
     
    #ccourses Unit 2 Trust
Terry Elliott

No Hiding Your Talents and No Bad Dogs: Happy New Year | Impedagogy - 1 views

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terry

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  • Sandra Sinfield
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Generating stuff you never need--story of my life. Wonderful to see Sandra in axn.  This is why I love Google Hangout(s)
  • a nova in the winter’s dark.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
      or Heather Nova ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Lyrics to Winter Blue Kiss your lashes, hiss you low I'm driven to you like the driven snow There's a place for us to lie For every lover there's a piece of sky To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue You know that this was meant to be Long ago a hundred years from now Tossing on an open sea Love so good it's easy to go down To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Love you like a jungle fever I'll never never never, I'll never leave Through every vein and every fibre I'll never never never, I'll never leave To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Winterblue, winterblue ... Winterblue, my yellow summer ...
  • annotate it and share it.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Go to the Vialogues above to comment.  Here is the link if you have probs with the embed: https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/19196
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      I could see where this would be very handy way to make an assignment by using the annotation links as guided reading, asking questions, embedding Google Forms,  well...just wow.
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  • did you know that you could embed stuff into the the Diigo annotation boxes
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
      Lots of stuff you can stuff inside things that weren't made for stuffing ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      We Have Arrived
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      I was having trouble embedding a hackpad until I remembered about Embed.ly.  http://goo.gl/1DCgSx
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
  • text box
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
  • celebrating her post
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
      Oh yeah ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
  • text annotation machine
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      freaky
  • sound file via Soundcloud
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Gotta love that Farfisa Combo. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Here is a Wikipedia book I made this morning titled "Rock Lobster:the Birth of the B52s and Fictional Lobsters"
  • Three things to note
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
      and one to share: Beware the Dog
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Irrepressible music just like my daughter's beagle/pug cross.  This music is a puggle.
  • Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
     
    feel free to help annotation this piece about annotation
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dogtrax: In trying to capture moment... - Notegraphy - 2 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

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  • maintain sanity
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Jan 15
       
      2 true
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Jan 15
       
  • trying to capture moments
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Jan 15
       
  • something rears
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Jan 15
       
      OED rear, v.1 (rɪə(r))  Forms: 1 rǽran, 3 ræren, 3, 4 reren, 5 reryn; 4-6 rere, 5, 6 reere, (3) 6 reare, 7- rear; (6-7 rair, 9 dial. rare).  [OE. rǽran (:-OTeut. *raizjan) = Goth. -raisjan, ON. reisa, to raise. OE. had also árǽran arear (in use down to the 17th c.).     The main senses of rear run parallel with those of the Scandinavian equivalent raise, but the adopted word has been much more extensively employed than the native, and has developed many special senses which are rarely or never expressed by rear. Hence, on the one hand, rear has in many applications been almost or altogether supplanted by raise, a process which is clearly seen in the usage of the Wyclif Bible (see note to raise; in the version of 1611 rear is found only in 1 Esdr. v. 62, while raise is freely employed). On the other hand, it is probable that rear has sometimes, esp. in poetry, been used as a more rhetorical substitute for raise, without independent development of the sense involved. As in the case of raise there is some overlapping of the senses, and occasional uncertainty as to the precise development or meaning of transferred uses.]  I.I To set up on end; to make to stand up.  1. a.I.1.a trans. To bring (a thing) to or towards a vertical position; to set up, or upright. = raise 1.    Frequently with suggestion of senses 8 or 11, and now usually implying a considerable height in the thing when raised.     a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 1675 (Gr.) Ceastre worhton & to heofonum up hlædræ rærdon.    c 1205 Lay. 1100 Heo rærden heora mastes.    Ibid. 17458 Mærlin heom [the stones] gon ræren [c 1275 reare] alse heo stoden ærer.    1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 455 Þe place þere Oswaldus knelede and rerede a crosse.    c 1400 Sowdone Bab. 2658 Thai rered the Galowes in haste.    1530 Palsgr. 687/2 It is a great deale longer than one wolde have thought it afore it was reared up.    1571 Digges Pantom. i. xxix. I j b, Fixing o
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  • it beautiful head
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Jan 15
       
  • the blue sky beckoning in a wash of quiet
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Jan 15
       
  • off-kilter reflection
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Jan 15
       
      Top 10 horror shots from hiagne
  • we arrive here,
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touches of sense...: The first click. - 0 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

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  • What drove the settlers to the 'new world'?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      They were holy hell angry and generally flaming mad for freedom.
  • What were their dreams?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      There were some seriously bad-assed marketers in those day, i.e. liars of the first order.
  • co-learning perhaps?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      For me an mine it is time to get together and swap notes about the world as it is--i.e. stories that define and stories that push the bounds.
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  • I agree with Laura
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      But whose bricks?  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      That brick metaphor is cock-eyed.  The problem being that we assume it has to be a brick.  It is this straightedged linear hierarchical nonsense that is the bane of modern architecture.  It is the Frank Geary/ Frank "Loud" Wright brand.  I ain't buyin' it.  In fact most of the things of the world don't require anywhere near the amount of topdown brick-headed, lego instructive bs than we think.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      ok
  • education for freedom.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      democracy schools
  • on the cheap.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      not hardly
  • I think of profit margins...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      the bottom line...is a guillotine's blade
  • Is education about serving industry or about safe-guarding some sort of freedom?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      Where I live education is a business inspired by desparate dreams and harnessed by professional despots both for-profit and not for profit.  I will sell you a dream not your own.  I am little George against that dragon, Smaug.  And not the Benedict Cumberbatch voiced dragon either.  
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 14 Dec 14
       
      Desperate or disparate dreams?
  • unbundle
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      nononononon a thousand times no.  If anything we need to be making our own bundles not someone else's fasces.  We all know where using someone else's bundle leads.
  • Second life anyone?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      Not on your second life.
  • We are connected by more than a few bits and clicks.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      Connected in our heads, in the connections we share with other folks heads, by the universal experience of power and lust and empathy and fear and joy and oblivion.  I know how you connect because I do so in much the same way.  I recognize you in me and me in you.  Self same same self, mirrored and beaming out of that glass like the blooming idiots that we are.
  • (The audience claps)
  • "To build the house, you have to lay the first brick."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      This is my anathema.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 14
       
      The map is the brick.  The map and the brick as dominant metaphors is the problem.  They should serve us,not master us.  Expertism is rampant and everything I have ever learned well has been when they have served my curvilinear, my randomized, my self-serving chaotic self, not vice the versa.  Lest we forget, we have changed the temperature of the oceans by building with bricks and maps.
Terry Elliott

School Design: Every School Is A Think Tank - 1 views

www.teachthought.com/...n-every-school-is-a-think-tank

ifttt delicious diigo

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  • Every School Is A Think Tank
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      When I first clicked I thought, "Yes, if only it was true."  Then I started having second thoughts as I read.
  • Every school, by design, opens it doors
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      Schools are compulsory for the poor. Not so much for the rich. A school by design is a lot of other things as well most of which has little to do with opening doors so much as shutting them and sorting the rest into where they need to go.
  • As children solve problems in an authentic and sustainable way–this particular problem and this particular family in this particular context in this particular community–the school crystallizes into something else.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      Schools could become like this: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/12/covering-miamis-rising-seas-sensors-public-data-politics/ But I don't think this zombie from the past can be reborn, do you?  There are issues and problems and ideas that schools in general will not tackle, many of them they cannot tackle.  For example, how can schools become think tanks for keeping students in rural communities?
Terry Elliott

The Question of Education: Context, Scale, Binaries & GeneralizationsReflecting Allowed... - 0 views

blog.mahabali.me/...scale-binaries-generalizations

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  • lot of good learning occurs outside formal schooling.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15
       
      Charles Jennings/Harold Jarche/Jay Cross--all great stuff.
  • Dave that the edu systems of today are made from historical remnants that no longer apply for what our edu goals for today should be
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15
       
      So much of how I analyze mod. ed problems is informed by the idea the future is not only already here (federatedwiki for example) but a moving target that is always unevenly distributed.  To me much of the prob with education is its uneven distribution.
  • Why can’t we just have more teachers who care to have students care about learning and who care to foster agency?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15
       
      Exactly,  thinking in complexity terms, we need to change the simplest set of initial conditions for learning.  That will reform any system.  We still can't predict where those conditions will emerge,but we sure know where the conditions are leading our students now.  
Terry Elliott

touches of sense... - 1 views

tachesdesens.blogspot.fr

ifttt delicious diigo

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  • looked up at me
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      Jazz divines your intention, your attention.  
  • just Jazz
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      a dog juste
  • "Why had I stopped?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      Remote gazing, scopaesthesia,
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 09 Dec 14
       
      Ah another new word. Yes, technology amplifies what...
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  • freedom is framed
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 09 Dec 14
       
      Excellent article. Had not situated Lakoff. Understand better now my own desire for progressive lenses.
  • All means of capture: camera, phone, pen, paper, I had left at home.  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 09 Dec 14
       
      Binary framing. Power framing. Main framing.
  • There he was again, questioning, "What are we doing?"  "Is this where will stay?"  "Will we stay here for ever?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 09 Dec 14
       
      That is Jazz.
  • patient impatience
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      "I calmly get frustrated waiting on waiting. I'm a patient person but impatiently patient about waiting"~Urban Dictionary
  • "What was that?" "What made that noise?" "Where was it?" "Is it safe?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 09 Dec 14
       
      That is Jazz
  •  A few yards on, the clouds were becoming rather menacing.   I felt a few spots of rain.   There were gusts of winds rustling the surviving leaves on the trees. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 09 Dec 14
       
      That is a cool comment
  • the sky seemed to have fallen onto the path. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      HennyPenny
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 09 Dec 14
       
      Wow I am learning. Had never heard of that reference to the sky falling.
  • puddlestruck
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      Reciprocate turbulence.
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 09 Dec 14
       
      Recycle resonance
  • watching the stories span out
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      radiant
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      gradient
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      patient
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      arcadian
  • There is something comforting, something animistic in meeting those we have never met outside of a screen in a puddle-journey...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      You have been magicked.  You're it. Let the wild hunt begin anew.
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 09 Dec 14
       
      There are poems and stuff in this stream.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14
       
      The poetry is both within and without the post,  twining, divining, opining. Catastrophe is a dish best tasted together.  
  • ingenuity
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Mar 15
       
      ingenuity (ɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪtɪ)  [ad. L. ingenuitās the condition of a free-born man, noble-mindedness, frankness, f. ingenu-us ingenuous: cf. F. ingénuité (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), It. ingenuità (Florio, 1598), possibly the immediate source. The employment of the word as the abstract n. from ingenious (for ingeniosity or *ingeniety) appears to be confined to Eng. and is connected with the confusion of the two adjs. in the 17th c.: see ingenious II and ingenuous 6.]  I.I Senses connected with ingenuous.  †1.I.1 The condition of being free-born; honourable extraction or station. Obs.     1598 Florio, Ingenuita, freedome or free state, ingenuitie, a liberall, free, or honest nature and condition.    1614 Selden Titles Hon. Pref. C ij, Ingenuitie, not Nobilitie, was designed by the three Names.    1614 Raleigh Hist. World v. iii. §16. 705 Such other tokens of ingenuity for his wife and children as every one did use.    1638 F. Junius Paint. of Ancients 254 The noble Art‥being forced to seek her bread without any ingenuitie, after the manner of other sordide, mechanike, and mercenarie Arts.    1658 Phillips s.v., Ingenuity is taken for a free condition or state of life. †b.I.1.b The quality that befits a free-born person; high or liberal quality (of education); hence, Liberal education, intellectual culture (cf. II). Obs.     a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 214 He intended it for a seminary of religion and ingenuity.    1662 Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. ii. §1 He [Moses] was brought up in the Court of Ægypt, and‥was skilled in all the learning of the Ægyptians; and these‥ prove the ingenuity of his education. †2.I.2 Nobility of character or disposition; honourableness, highmindedness, generosity. Obs.     1598 [see sense 1].    1603 Florio Montaigne ii. viii. (1632) 215, I should have loved to have stored their mind with ingenuity and liberty.    a 1638 Mede Wks. (1672) i. xxxii. 1
  • 'education' in the dark ages
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Mar 15
       
      Opposite of the golden age fallacy is the dark age fallacy.  
  • an infallible model
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Mar 15
       
      AKA, the papal bull model.
  • Preamble.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Mar 15
       
      Please do let us ramble before we amble.  The random feldgang is so civil.
  • wayside
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Mar 15
       
      So very Biblical: As he sowed some fell by the waye syde. (Tyndale, Luke)
  • Such wastage
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Mar 15
       
      MOOC waystrels?
  • learning ecologies of the time
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Mar 15
       
      Stupided? Self-stupided?
Terry Elliott

Kevin's Meandering Mind | If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~ Charl... - 3 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

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  • we were not sure how it would go, but it soon become clear that the kids are alright
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Dec 14
       
      OK, this is the secret sauce of teaching and critical pedagogy in general:  trust.  I love how more often than not, the kid really are alright.
  • Come on over, if you have time, to participate in the conversation. We’d love to see you there.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Dec 14
       
      I hope there is a recording of this.  Would love to be there but ...you know the drill. 
  • We teamed up our classes, and each group worked on a coding activity at Code.org based on the movie, Frozen, where the task is to create visual fractals with Blockly code.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Dec 14
       
      It would be of real value to know how you decided on this particular activity.  What drew you to it? Why did you think it might bridge your students? Was there a Plan B?  Just would be neat to know how you decided to take the teaching risk this particular way.  If it was just a hunch, they why do you think you had that hunch?  I suspect that you both have a long history together where this is an almost seamless colllaboration but teasing your process out even a little bit might very well help others--like me.
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  • My favorite comic app
  • I think the narration is a bit stilted,
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15
       

      Record and upload voice >>
  • This is what it looked like, and sounded like …
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15
       
      Here is  link to a remix I did with Weavly 
  • Ice Gig
  • Bug Gig
  • Quiet Gig
  • Loud Gig
  • Cold Gig
  • You rough it at this place.
  • a bit more rougher
  • temperamental piece of metal
  • dancing the cold night away to the music, and we warmed up quickly, jumping around and finding the groove,
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