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Howard Rheingold

#oclmooc and Connected Courses MOOC (#ccourses): Connections, Learning, and Lazy Enthus... - 0 views

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MOOCs connectedcourses

shared by Howard Rheingold on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Anyone new to connectivist MOOCs had, by the end of the session, not only been engaged in helping create the learning experience through contributing to content within online whiteboards, but had also heard Cormier recap five learning tips he includes in his online video: take time to become effectively oriented to the learning landscape rather than letting it overwhelm you; “declare” yourself within your learning community by sharing information about yourself with your learning colleagues; network by posting content and responding to content posted by others; “cluster” by working within subgroups of the learning community rather than unrealistically expecting to read and respond to every online contribution; and “focus” in a way that keeps you from burning out and succumbing to the idea that you have better things to do than to stay with the learning community as long as it is continuing to support the learning needs that initially attracted you to the MOOC.
  • Howard Rheingold on 26 Sep 14
     
    "Anyone new to connectivist MOOCs had, by the end of the session, not only been engaged in helping create the learning experience through contributing to content within online whiteboards, but had also heard Cormier recap five learning tips he includes in his online video: take time to become effectively oriented to the learning landscape rather than letting it overwhelm you; "declare" yourself within your learning community by sharing information about yourself with your learning colleagues; network by posting content and responding to content posted by others; "cluster" by working within subgroups of the learning community rather than unrealistically expecting to read and respond to every online contribution; and "focus" in a way that keeps you from burning out and succumbing to the idea that you have better things to do than to stay with the learning community as long as it is continuing to support the learning needs that initially attracted you to the MOOC."
Tania Sheko

Why Read This, Why Read That?Reflecting Allowed | Reflecting Allowed - 1 views

blog.mahabali.me/...why-read-this-why-read-that

mimi ito maha bali connecting #ccourses blog post learning reflection

shared by Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • that she found reading books (quickly, i assume?) easier than wading through tweets and blogs; whereas I clearly did the tweets/blogs things quite comfortably but found reading books “too much”
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      I feel the same as Maha, easier to read and respond to blog posts than read a book on my own - with nobody to talk to and no way of sharing my thoughts. Claustrophobic.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 27 Sep 14
       
      I can both ways, depending on the situation. Here, with Connected Courses, I find I am (like Maha) completely ignoring all the recommended reading and diving right into the social stream.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Kevin I keep remembering that you were initially planning to lurk coz ur not in highered. I think (assuming here) that given your personal goals and interests it makes absolute sense to go that route. I made me realize, reading this, that in some other MOOC, my behavior may be slightly different, where my goal is to get some theory rather than interact w ppl (umm i've yet to participate in such a MOOC, but i do sometimes sign up for an xMooc and just download resources and never follow the 'MOOC itself
  • Anyway, it made me reflect on why I, someone who LOVES reading by all accounts, have a strong preference for reading blogs/tweets over books/academic articles in MOOCs. There are many reasons,
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      This is something I've been thinking about for ages but feeling like I've failed in that I've lost the enthusiasm for reading books, or maybe don't have the focus stamina any more. Thanks for writing this out, Maha, I might do my own blog reflection.
  • reflecting on connecting
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  • “my way
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 27 Sep 14
       
      I think finding our own way is a key element here.
  • Mimi’s point that a connected learning experience “welcomes people with different dispositions and orientations to learning”,
  • In terms of learning: Is the MOOC about experiencing connecting? Or about reading about it?
  • the MOOC is about reflecting on connecting,
  • My first PhD supervisor was big on encouraging me to read diverse articles not single-authored books
  • My second supervisor (who replaced the first) was big on me reading original works by e.g. Marx, Foucault, etc.
  • I also find reading translated works really difficult and find it a better investment of my time to first read more contemporary (or at least, more education-focused) interpretations of the “greats” works, before reading the original. It helps me read it better
  • I do not value the book-authors more than I value the blog-authors
  • can interact with them more regularly
  • more accessible, easier to read quickly
  • 2. Attention issues
  • Philosophical approach to reading
  • This is particularly funny because I keep not finding time to read the”attention literacies” part in Howard Rheingold’s Net Smart, as I get ‘distracted’ into reading different parts of it (i’ve probably read half the book already, just not in order).
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      I can relate to this behaviour.
  • And that’s why I voice these things in MOOCs, because I am pretty sure that courses about connection want ppl to feel they can participate.
  • Taking steps: Conceding Having said all this… I went into unit 2 of #ccourses today and did the following
  • So basically, I hope to engage with these readings “my way” (so not deeply with each entire book, unless it draws me in, but with parts of it)
  • hope that blogposts by other people & the hangout will fill me in second-hand (you see what I am doing here, don’t you?)
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      Very clever. I think this method wards away the guilts and also sustains engagement in the course. The alternative would be to give up and feel defeated if you couldn't do everything.
  • P.S. some ppl may say that w blog posts u have no guarantee of quality vs a book recommended by the facilitators. However, there are many ways to gauge a blog’s quality, incl knowing the person, seeing it retweeted often or with many comments – and it takes v little time to skim it to decide to read deeply;
  • lovely quotes from Mimi’s post
  • Connected Courses is a veritable cornucopia of ways of participating with no central platform.
  • colliding through a loosely orchestrated cross-network remix, immersive theater where participants are all experiencing a different narrative.
  • hybrid network, more like a constellation that looks different based on where one stands and who one is.
  • 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
  • opportunities for recognition.
  • reciprocity and fun in the social stream
  • our personal interests and expertise
  • institutional status/reputation
Kevin Hodgson

A MOOC Runs Amok: Update | Open Assembly Blog - 0 views

blog.openassembly.com/...a-mooc-runs-amok-update

ccourses

shared by Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • customize
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      Customize .... sure ... but only if you do it within the bounds of the course, right? What happens if students create their own parallel learning space?
  • Those of us committed to open education would argue that such a mission can only be accomplished if education, pedagogy, courses, content, data, etc., are actually and truly “open.”
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      Yep.
  • many reacted with anger instead of engaging in reflection about the fact that their behavior and emotions in the course’s online forum were being tracked by Coursera
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      They were angry at the professor? not Coursera? Are we raising kids who don't question anything? I like how the prof was pushing the envelope here. Even with controversy, I bet the students learned more about data mining then if they had read about it in a textbook.
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  • a needed narrative around what MOOCs are, how they are impacting higher education and faculty, and how control is being wrested from the people who are vital counter-balancing agents in society’s power structure.
  • Suddenly their inbox was assaulted with dozens, hundreds, of emails. The point that he was trying to make was on the power that faculty have in a course.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      Ha. I bet that one was a surprise, and a great lesson on who has the power, and ways to get around it.
  • 5R ACTIVITIES
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      I like this 5R concept ... 
  • Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
     
    Good overview of the clash of open and non-open MOOCs. Add your own thoughts with annotations
Kevin Hodgson

Connected Courses MOOC (#ccourses) and #oclmooc: Assessing Connected Learning... - 1 views

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ccourses

shared by Kevin Hodgson on 23 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • the gold standard is to ask what impact the learning eventually has not only on the learner, but on the community the learner ultimately serves. And it encourages us to take the learner’s point of view into account rather than focusing solely on the learning facilitator’s or learning organization’s vantage point.
  • Do we follow up with our learners to see “whether learning made a difference in their lives?”
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 23 Sep 14
       
      I don't think we do much follow-up of our learners, particularly at the university level. Down in the K-12 level, we have lots of data around where students have been and where they end up. So might say, too much data, but I find it handy as one tool to get a sense of areas of strengths and weaknesses. And I am curious to know how former students are faring.
  • “It’s not just what kids got out of the course…but what happens next, “Ito reiterated.
  • Kevin Hodgson on 23 Sep 14
     
    an overview by Paul
Maha Abdelmoneim

Key Pedagogic Thinkers - Dave Cormier - Journal of Pedagogic Development - 2 views

www.beds.ac.uk/...y-pedagogic-thinkers-maha-bali

shared by Maha Abdelmoneim on 30 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • when I think about MOOCs I think there's a connection between them and really good conferences, where people expect them to come around every year, and they get a tone and a feeling
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 30 Sep 14
       
      Idea! In some conferences there are break out rooms dedicated to different topics. How about using hangouts and Google docs to create those spaces for synchronous and asynchronous conversations?
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
Kevin Hodgson

The "learner's why" vs the "teacher's why"Reflecting Allowed | Reflecting Allowed - 2 views

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shared by Kevin Hodgson on 21 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • focusing a whole lot on the teacher’s “why” during #ccourses, and by doing that, we might be losing focus of the learner’s “why”
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      One of the most glaringly wrong assumptions a teacher can make is to think that just because he or she taught it that the students learned it--even with good assessments and feedback.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      Good point: keeping the shift on focus to the learner. In my realm, this is made more difficult by the overburdened Teacher Evaluation process that is directed at the teacher, teaching, not the student, learning. In my opinion ....
  • At least, it should.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      This is the "put the food down where the beasts can get to it" school of learning--free range learning.  But I do think there is and perhaps should be a political agenda in #ccourses, I mean, something's gotta change in hied, right?  Everyone so far seems to be taking a bit out of that bit of pie.
  • video of Mike Wesch
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      Randy Bass does in this video:  https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/17699  at 18:23  His reason why> shared difficulty.
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  • (this is funny because i LOVE audiobooks and podcasts
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      This is exactly why I use Vialogues:  asychronous, allows serial tasking, allows for quick focus and return.
  • That it seemed quite structured and with lots of instructor-centered stuff…
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      Alan is very aware of this and has bought into the enter/exit anywhere/anytime.
  • People need different degrees of structure
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      This is a very fluid undertaking and requires that learners know when they need one or the other or somewhere in between.  I have had to do a lot of this for my students and I was always ready to do it in #clmooc.  Personally, I need to learn to ask for help/scaffolding. 
  • I don’t think I’ve heard enough about their individual (not collective) “why” as facilitators of #ccourses.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      I also don't think, other than Howards and sometimes Alan, that the facilitators are all that engaged outside of their hangouts and video feeds. Or am I missing their interactions in various spaces?
  • It’s really important, I think, that if you’re going to provide lots of options: a. That learners are absolutely CLEAR they don’t have to do all of this; and b. That reading through the options is not itself a huge time investment; and c. That skimming through the details of the options is not a huge time investment
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      This is the ethos of open education, right? (and how it comes into conflict with credit-based courses out of universities)
  • there is no failure in the MOOC
Terry Elliott

touches of sense... - 1 views

tachesdesens.blogspot.fr

ifttt delicious diigo

shared by Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • 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?
Kevin Hodgson

K-Log: #CCourses: Thinking Like the Web - 3 views

justywk.blogspot.com/...courses-thinking-like-web.html

ccourses mooc web

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  • There's a lot of information offered by the course, but we don't have to cover all of them during these two weeks.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      "Time" becomes different when you are in an open online space. While we might put time constraints around ideas (this Make Cycle, this Learning Cycle), a true open learning space would allow entry and exit, and re-entry, at any point in time. This doesn't always jive with university criteria (finish this during this semester or you get an incomplete!)
  • sketch
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      love the sketch! The visual element dovetails nicely with the visual element of how we experience and interact with the Web. We don't all see the underlying code. We see the illusion of the graphics.
  • when people connect and realize that a gap in their knowledge can be filled by bits of information
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  • #DailyConnect feature
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      Yeah!
  • These led to a bit of conversation which made me feel that the course wasn't static but alive
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      This is so important -- that we are not writing into the wind ... that others are out there, connecting and sharing and asking questions, and pushing us to ask questions, too. When that part of a cMOOC fails, the entire endeavor is pointless. I see a course like CCourses as a place to launch from as much as dive into.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      Love your thinking in this piece, Yin.
Tania Sheko

A human OER | doublemirror - 6 views

mdvfunes.com/...a-human-oer

clmooc via:packrati.us ds106 ccourses IFTTT Pocket

shared by Tania Sheko on 24 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • 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”.
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