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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

Opposite of the golden age fallacy is the dark age fallacy.  

Please do let us ramble before we amble.  The random feldgang is so civil.

tl;dr version, her TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts?language=en

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.

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. 

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!

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.

I hope Mimi is reading these comments :)

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.  

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. 

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 :)!

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.

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 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.

Thank you for this Terry and for your courage in surfing the rapids!

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.

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.  

The only way it will fall apart is if you don't trust the users to pick up the slack in the web.

Reminds me of a pinball.

It's only blood.  We'll make more.  Let the IV run to your pen.  And write until you grow faint as the memory of your loss concentrates in your veins.

Me, too. And ask not for whom the joke sings, it sings for thee.