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Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: At heart. - 4 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

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  • At heart
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Be at heart Beat heart Be at heart Beat heart
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 29 Sep 14
       
      Beatitude Beat attitude Be attitude Be at Blessed are those who be and breathe Together To gather Each  other.
  • heart beating
  • space
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  • keeps us breathing
  • together
  • How does together
  • express together
  • as of one
  • embryonically aware of being contained
  • precognitively aware of being connected
  • Rejoice.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      LOVE LOVE LOVE cello
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I played this while I read and reread your post.  Perfection.
  • I am one of yours, my friends.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      None of this seems possible, yet it is.
  • I feel your presence.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      To think about people I have never "met." Have we met? It feels muchly like that answer is yes.  
  • edge of my reason
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      we are all on edges, out here together, in some kind of weird edge-filled connected space...I seem to have found my people, far-flung throughout the planet.
  • How does singularity feel? How do we express being a part, being apart?
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      yes yes yes good question good questions
  • Hunger  to move?
Kevin Hodgson

Teaching Beyond Tropes: Needle in a Haystack - 4 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

shared by Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The massiveness of a MOOC is not just about numbers, but about depth and intricacy.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Massively open Massively cooperative Massively complex Massively connected Massively entangled
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14
       
      And massively collaborative!
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      massively fun.... You know, the intricacy of #clmooc was a surprise for me, since I had never been involved in such a nonlinear "course" - it takes getting used to, but once you do, you can't imagine it being any other way....which is why some of the PD fare I am in now seems ever so flat.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      The expression for me is simple:  skin in the game.  I am absolutely enamored of 'packet kid': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3h5jcI-MFI
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      Terry, I love him too. I saw this a while back and was cheering him on. He is so exactly right.
  • influence of God or a god
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am thinking of Pan here.  You know...the panpipes.  i have such wonderful associations with this word because of The Wind in the Willows. The very title of Grahame's book is a reference to Pan and the gods of otters and water rats and moles and badgers and toads. I read this book over and over to my children growing up.  I want Chapter Seven to be read aloud to me as I die. It is titled "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" --Pan, the source of all inspiration, speaking to use through the wind in the willows at the gates of dawn.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am inspired here to suggest that your blog like every loved thing or space has a genius loci, a Pan of its own living within like the little island in the middle of the weir in The Wind in the Willows.  Your work is to give it room to breathe out that inspiration, to be another's wind in the willows.  There really are undiscovered connections everywhere.  Holy digital spaces that we believe in because others do and because we do.  Inspiring, breathing in, like the zephyr at dawn. Sweet and wild and impossible to word.
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  • the fact that something bigger than "us" is at play here
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Yes, in teaching I yearn for these moments where the artifice fades away, the planning drops off, the dross of the past is slagged off and a new presence is born.  We become the pipers at the gates of dawn if only for a few moments and the seeming chaos of improvisation, of taking our lead from the pipedreams in the ayre, becomes impossibly logical, a transcendent logic.  And no wonder we are called 'touched' because we damned well are.  And the world in these times makes abject sense, abject in the sense that wonder and awe always cast off sense.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14
       
      Good way to put it ... something larger but not unrecognizable
  • (you get the idea).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      We get the idea because it is a river that passes through this familiar yet undiscovered country.  We all come to it through teaching for whatever reason. Teaching flips the switch that allows us to see the light that "grows and grows" in Wind in the Willows.
  • Mimi's post was added to the Diigo group so we could all jump in and annotate.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Mimi's post is just a little rowboat, a place to put the hamper as we search for Old Otter beloved youngest child along the river banks.  (Please read Chapter Seven of Wind in the Willows here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/289/289-h/289-h.htm#link2H_4_0007).  Not to put too hyperbolic a point on it--we really are here to rescue children at this point from the leg traps and snares of the world.  Instead we should be taking them to meet the pipers at the gates of dawn.
  • resonated with me - and made me laugh
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      If you love words, you'll love 'resonate'--I think it is directly analogous to the word recursion. Where recursion is tied to vision, resonation is tied to the ear.  It is not an old word at all according to the OED.  it is a science word. Many disciplines use it. To re-sound, to be a re-sounding board, to echo back and forth.  It is like the empathy of mirror neurons.  It is memory and the experience of shared discipline and questions and ranging out into the world.  We are all looking for someone's lost child.  We have all found Pan at the Gates of Dawn.  Hence the resonating chord stretched between us and only felt as it vibrates, akin.
  • an amalgamation
  • an amalgamation
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      I think that we skirt around the issue of how we go beyond an "amalgamation" when we lower our gates and release the bloody-minded wards of routine. We really are Kevin and Mimi and Maha and Alan (well, maybe not Alan ;-) ).  I think they are our fractal selves.  Is that nuts? Is that perhaps lowering the prison walls a bit too much?  None of us is free.  We are all tied to each other.  If one goes down, the rest of us will be pulled down the mountain. Do I really believe that as more than a damned abstraction?  Sometimes.  At the best of times.  All the time? I just gotta keep working that garden.
  • "We may not be too big to fail, but [she] would like to believe that we are too diverse to fail and distributed to fail."
  • What inspired me to create
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14
       
      Here is the phrase we should see bending all over the place: "What inspired me to create"
  • we are too happily enmeshed to fail
Terry Elliott

Kevin's Meandering Mind | Three Comics for #CCourses - 2 views

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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?
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    • 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

touches of sense...: Reaching out. - 1 views

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  • The person is often only aware of feeling of constraint. We pick away at those constraints little by little. Meaningful time spent with one person has a viral effect on other students who are witnesses to the uniquely meaninful dialogue. Such moments of connection become virtuous, viral messages.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 03 Oct 14
       
      I absolutely love and identify with this paragraph.
  • Meaningful time spent with one person has a viral effect on other students who are witnesses to the uniquely meaninful dialogue. Such moments of connection become virtuous, viral messages.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Oct 14
       
      This is a full tru dat moment.
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: Zootopia? - 0 views

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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

Quiet Is Not Always Silent - hackpad.com - 2 views

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  • (Ack how do you embed?)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Jan 15
       
  • Just use the share link, not the embed.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Jan 15
       
  • Ack how do you embed?)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Jan 15
       
Terry Elliott

Teaching Beyond Tropes: #Ccourses Has Ruined Me and I Don't Know How to Fix It - 2 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

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  • I am typically
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      Reaching forth.
  • no balance
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      unbalanced
  • Work. More work. No walks.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      unmoored
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  • exercise.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      inert
  • Lots of trying. Hamster-wheeling.  More trying.  Reflecting.  Action planning.  Susan-What-Are-You-Doing self-chats.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      neutral nowheres
  • So I went on a walk today
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      Lord, please don't make me basic, please not basic.
  • for weeks?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      In Italo Calvino's "Nothing and Not Much," Qfwfq talks about "a time when it was only in the chinks of emptiness, the absences, the silences, the gaps, the missing connections, the flaws in time's fabric, that I could find meaning and value."
  • Signs.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      Semiotics. Awash in signs.
  • I get it
  • Two "No Outlet" signs.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      secret doors. keep looking.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      Homo significans
  • Thanks, universe.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      Signifier and signified all one in you.
  • neutral, robotic
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      neutral+robotic=neurotic? 
  • trying to yell at me.
  • I also noticed beauty
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      You create the idea of beauty as you walk. It rest inside you. Conceptual and very real.
  • #Ccourses has ruined me.  There's no going back.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      ruin, v. (ˈruːɪn)  [ad. F. ruiner (14th c., = Sp. and Pg. ruinar, It. rovinare, ruinare), or med.L. ruīnāre, f. ruīna ruin n.]  I. 1.I.1 a.I.1.a trans. To reduce (a place, etc.) to ruins.  1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xii. 47 b, [They] ruined and cast down to the ground the wals of the city.    1601 R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 114 From thence alongst the shore lieth Cæsaria, now ruined by them of Gallipoli.    1686 tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 410 An Inundation of Waters ruin'd a thousand Houses.    1830 Examiner 455/1 Our batteries continued to ruin the works.    1849-50 Alison Hist. Europe VIII. xlix. §87. 92 The wall, which was of tough mud, was imperfectly ruined. fig.    1590 Shakes. Com. Err. ii. i. 97 What ruines are in me‥By him not ruin'd?    1606 ― Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 51 This mortall house Ile ruine, Do Cæsar what he can. b.I.1.b fig. To overthrow, destroy (a kingdom, etc.).     1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xiii. 49 After hee hadde ruined the Empyre of Constantinople.    1671 Milton P.R. iv. 363 In them is plainest taught‥What ruins Kingdoms, and lays Cities flat.    1743 Pitt in Almon Anecd. (1810) I. 107 France had a mind to have the power of that House reduced, but not to be absolutely ruined.    1856 Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 146 Charles‥was not ruining the papacy, and had no intention of ruining it. †2.I.2 To destroy, extirpate, eradicate; to do away with, get rid of, by a destructive process. Obs.     1581 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 22 Some of whom did seeke to ruine all memory of learning from among them.    1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. vii. (1651) 356 He fell down dead upon the Dragon, and killed him with the fall, so both were ruin'd.    1645 Symonds Diary (Camden) 163 Cromwell's horse and dragoons ruined some of our horse that quartered about Islip.    1658 Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 255 You shall every year renew some of your beds,
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Oct 14
       
      yes
  • Simple things.  Team things.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 29 Oct 14
       
      People fuck up.  People disappoint. Especially when they don't have any money in the pot, something to lose.
Terry Elliott

dogtrax: In trying to capture moment... - Notegraphy - 2 views

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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,
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: The first click. - 0 views

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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

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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

Reflecting on Papert, Palmer and FreireReflecting Allowed | Reflecting Allowed - 1 views

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  • There’s Papert’s Mindstorms, Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope, and Palmer’s The Courage to Teach.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Jan 15
       
      These three book along withDeschooling Society, any John Holt book, Whitehead's The Aims of Education, and Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution (an outlier here I admit) were my guides on the road to unschooling all three of our kids.  Oh yeah, and Neil Postman and the Whole Earth Catalog,
  • distances students from their inner reality
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 08 Jan 15
       
      as if we don't do this enough already in our own lives as a really bad coping mechanism.
  • devaluing inner reality
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  • opportunities of engaging with students’ souls
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 08 Jan 15
       
      Sometimes it seems like an active avoidance of students' souls.
  • with Freire’s ideas
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
      Yes, reading as a social activity--have you read any Frank Smith
  • creating space for learners to make meaning from what matters to them, rather than having teachers or policy-makers make those decisions for them.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
      I have been experimenting with the word 'substrate' as the bare minimum structure upon which a bare minimum of content (there can be many growing media).  I am thinking just enough, vetted for bias as much as possible, and willing to be remixed as needed.  
  • how fiction can be a person’s (inner) reality, that it’s not a lie to a child.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 10 Jan 15
       
      Our kids used to have a big box of legos, blocks, plastic creatures AND they called them their 'guys'.  And they would go play guys.  And we were not allowed to play guys with them. It was their domain.  We could play in other domains, we could read aloud to them, but their guys were their guys, not ours.  They owned their own imaginations and still do.  If imagination be fiction, then let us have more of it.
  • Which brings me back to Palmer
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 10 Jan 15
       
  • Landfillharmonic video
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 10 Jan 15
       
  • And his idea is to leave them to build on their own and figure out what the role of teachers/schools would then be, if it is not to impart knowledge/content.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 10 Jan 15
       
      Dignity.  They own their own knowledge, deeply.
Terry Elliott

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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

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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,
Terry Elliott

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  • Cartoon worlds were more colourful, more exciting, funnier
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Nov 14
       
      Cartoon worlds are legible. James Scott's idea of legibility.
  • falling off a cliff and being squashed into a flat pancake upon landing,
  • Mr Hodgson K. qualifies as an honorary cartoon character.
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  • prose is poetry, references labyrinthine, whose playfulness is akin to the Dadaists.
  • four rounds and then you’re out.
  • Boy George F2F (3D)
Tania Sheko

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  • the web does ‘make sense of what we are doing and where we individually fit in’.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      HIve mind? Collective unconscious? Zeitgeist?  Not sure there is anything alive that can see more than what we hope is a fractal piece of the "Web".
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      But it is how we pull those fractals together that pushes us to consider/reconsider emerging literacies
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Oct 14
       
      I think what I mean is that no one sees it all. Just like no one can manage chaos. It doesn't mean that we can't grasp for a piece of the meaning, and maybe it is fractal, by getting a piece we might have access to a quick glimpse of it all. So many unknown unknowns and so many folk claiming to have figured it all out. Unless of course you give the classic Socratic cop-out of "I know that I know nothing." Yeah, that sucks.
  • see pattern
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      humans as pattern makers even where there is none or even where they might be
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Trusting our "gut instinct" about the viability of an online space ... will I belong here or not?
  • They are a marker of belonging as much as a marker of exclusion.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      Boundaries are rigid, permeable, and semi-permeable in nature.  Are they such in our social constructs?  Is this just another pattern seen in a metaphor that extends just far enough to trip us up?  Well...I hope not. I kinda like it.
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  • All of this has felt quite unsatisfactory to me as I reflect on how to engage those people who have not made the transition to working in the open web
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      There are lots of assumptions packed into the acronym soup, one being that they aren't just another example of the 'rich' getting richer.
  • Who am I in this meditated world that is the open web?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      An essential question for anyone working on the web.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Agreed
  • I want to be part of the larger whole, not just the subset.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      There is a web, whole and entire that subsumes every living being on the planet. In every important way we already are part of the larger whole.  I am drawn once again to James Scott's idea of legibility.  Great summary of idea in one picture on this website: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/
  • a significant part of earth does not have a presence on the web
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      About 60% do not have access according to this source: "Key ICT indicators for developed and developing countries and the world (totals and penetration rates)", International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Geneva, 27 February 2013
  • am full of wonder about the kindness and gentle nature of the people in my network
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Love the poetic ideal here, and I think it is this element that brings us back into a space to connect with others.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 27 Oct 14
       
      I have been struck by the same thoughts
  • My ‘hashtag home’
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      This phrase is so interesting to me in a lot of ways ... a hashtag both stands by itself and is connected to other posts/ideas with same hashtag. Is it just Twitter-centric? It hints at the larger architecture of our experiences in online spaces, of lifelines that we throw out to others in hopes that our words/ideas won't stand alone in silence.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      It's interesting that hashtags - similar to the traditional keywords used for online search (markers) - have become communal 'spaces' or 'homes'. When we create a hashtag, are we trying to build 'homes' to invite people in? And if we use a hashtag only understood by few, our invitation is selective.
  • The tension between freedom of speech and member equality plays out in a more or less explicit way always.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      And here we have one of the central points of being in online spaces. Is it a "true space" where things can go awry? (as in real life beyond the screen). Or do we want those with opposing views filtered out from the start?
  • people who I respect do tell me consistently that the language used can feel unwelcoming at the start.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Really? Interesting .... I have not heard that from anyone but I can see how someone might feel like it was an exclusive party of makers and less an inclusive party of "everyone." I guess ... truthfully, I never felt that with DS106.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      All foreign language feels excluding.
  • Norms self-organise as people do, they are implicit. There is no explicit contracting upfront and no consequence for non-compliance that I have found in any of the MOOCs I have joined.
  • What prompted this post was a small realisation that has helped me keep the baby and let the bathwater out. May be we are overlaying the wrong construct on our online lives. May be this is not ‘a classroom’ and I am not ‘a teacher’ or ‘a learner’. May be I am just a human being using a technology to interact with other human beings  for a variety of purposes – one of which can be learning to make art, to knit or to be a good digital citizen.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      I love this realization, and agree with it. Her thoughts help connect beyond the learning itself (no matter the platform) and into the act of being a human whose part of the fabric of the world (not to get too corny about it)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Oct 14
       
      Yes, doing much the same with my seed sharing project.
  • As a participant I can choose to be part of disturbing and ambiguous spaces.
  • For me this is about sharing ideas, it is about knowing a person not what she/he can do for me, it is about having fun together exploring stuff and not being afraid to disagree with each other and ourselves regularly.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Me, too.
  • live life as inquiry
  • Innovation may occur where people are creatively engaged, but it cannot be dictated and it cannot be planned, it must be found from the emergent actions of people who are struggling with a task. “
  • As we struggle with the task we follow a set of norms and learn something off-book – how to live and learn on the open web.
  • This is in the background not the foreground and I think this matters when I compare it with other experiences
  • power dynamics exist in the shadow of groups perhaps too often. These get played out covertly, unspoken and our options when we do not like it are limited. Stay and comply or leave.
  • This sorting process, by definition, includes some people and excludes others.
  • In online learning communities, it seems to me, we are using hashtags as our ‘brand’.
  • It creates a mantra, the chanting of which identifies you as a member. People who are ‘in’ are quite willing to surrender to this higher authority. People who are not ‘in’ are ‘out’ and are subject to various sanctions from the group, including hostility.
  • A reviewer to one of my papers said  ‘that the practice that many share in virtual courses is just studying online and that in less structured communities people just end up talking about their experience of studying.’
  • the task is coming together online and this leads to a bias towards consent not dissent. This is problematic for diversity.
  • You need only scan how people wear their cMOOC attendance as an online resume or badge of honour
  • The hashtags are created to stand for something and as with any collection of individuals who identify with something, the quality of the interaction can ‘go south’ as people find their feet and implicit norms a majority share evolve. This is what happens when a group is left to self-organise.
  • People interact in dysfunctional ways if left to their own devices more often than not. Online it seems a ‘escape clause’ for making any behaviour acceptable  is “it is not real, it is the internet”  and “you can always move on if you don’t like it”.
Terry Elliott

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  • I drove my girls to school this morning.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Inside to outside.  Views in a frame. Gregor Samsa waking up forever trapped in the box that Kafka made.  
  • looked up
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      O, eyes, incline thee to heaven, away from objects insufficient unto the moment.
  • snow,
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  • pink glint
  • rising sun
  • together gazing up at its beauty
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Not gazing at its beauty, but at it. Not living through it. Living it.
  • We laughed, I don't remember why
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      We laughed in remembrance of the unremembered.
  • mountains are considered sacred places
  • words, numbers, pictures can be considered as a trap
  • talk of technology, I would say that language is a technology
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Talk of tech. Talk is tech. We recede from eternity as if stung.  Words = bees, swarming off the Hive. Not the hive. Servants to the hive.
  • The word is not the thing. Alfred Korsybski
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Korzybski said the word is not the thing, but his words were not the thing.  
  • happy to escape from the spreadsheet experiment
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      so happy to escape the spreedsheet of world framed with words.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Windshield and window and text box and monitor and post-it and page herding us  from the commons into the margins. Gate clangs shut.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      from the commons to the margins past the threshhold and door locked tight. Against our going. Against your coming.
  • all this cell formating lark which made me feel claustrophobic
  • Last night I played around with zeega.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      And we ask because we are driven to escape the bonecage of words:  can we find another way out? 
  • I found the result, paranoia inducing, dark
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Are we worms, are we moles, are we roots rhizomatic and tunneling to escape these locked and formatted cells, paranoids in the dark, driven to Perdition by firebrand angels?
  • had enough black and white
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      No.  Remember that roots break through the dark with whip and branch and leaf.  
  • enough of cells, of breaking things down to their bones. 
  • had enough of cells, of breaking things down to their bones. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      No. We can pile up the borders and frames in the middle and set it all aflame.
  • I am fed up with keyboards, glass screens
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      No more input. No more output. Time to put those those to words away.
  • texture, grass, wind, sunshine, laughter
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Words are changeling kafkas. Pile them in a pyre. Burn them with flint&steel&laugther real.
  • Goodbye Kafka.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Goodbye Ungeziefer. Goodbye Gregor Samsa. God be with you Kafka.
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