o although I am one of the hosts/facilitators I am doubly a n00b in the connected courses sense - new to cMOOCs as well as new to course design. Which means I am thoroughly enjoying taking the plunge as a learner in all of this and muddling through the why of my teaching as I go.
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Mimi Ito - Weblog: Trust Falls and My Whys for Connected Courses - 1 views
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best kind of trust fall exercise for someone who is used to pausing and polishing before sharing.
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And so glad you are taking the risk and jumping through the ether into you know not what.
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encouraged me to keep thinking in public
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I feel very much buoyed by generous ways in which the connected courses participants have responded to the inevitable glitches in facilitating this course, and my thinking aloud in public as we go.
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we are all bringing our heterogeneous whys to this experience.
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he other is the connected course that I am designing together with other DML colleagues.
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there can’t be a singular why for connected courses
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Even with different dispositions that pull in different directions, I like that connected courses is pushing us both into productive discomfort and growth.
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ach facilitator brought a different angle and expertise, and we wanted to honor that and give people space to stretch out and develop their own whys.
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For the mission statement, first there is the what:
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he why more broadly
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ur goal is to build an inclusive and expansive network of teachers, students, and educational offerings that makes high quality, meaningful, and socially connected learning available to everyone.
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Our goal setting out was to provide a professional development opportunity for faculty who are setting out to teach a connected course
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the why that we may have set out with as instigators of the course is not the why that all participants bring to the course.
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And this is a feature of a connectivist experience that should be embraced.
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every co-learner is facilitating by participating.
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So if I take off the organizer hat, as a co-learner my personal why is that I want to experience and learn more about the cMOOC approach
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Connected courses is my first time living through this kind of learning with my own professional community.
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So as a learner, I guess at least some of my why tracks to the explicit learning goal that we set up as organizers when we started out.
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newly emergent whys
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building more ties between educational practice and research
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I’m starting to geek out on engagement metrics for the course, and thinking through how we can track the cascading effects of an experience like connected courses as it influences educator practice and in turn shapes student experiences.
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How can we better tell a story through research and evidence about why these kinds of connected learning experiences are important?
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And can we mobilize our networks to tell this story in a way that supports the diverse collectives that are intersecting here?
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issues that @mdvfunes and Jenny Mackness have raised on the “tyranny of the open” and the pressures of normative expectations of participation
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it seems worthwhile to reflect on these more pervasive kinds of risks or exclusions, silencing and just feeling plain old overwhelmed
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I like this idea of “heterotopia” that Ferreday and Hodgson suggest as a way of charting a pathway through these dynamics.
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I may be idealistic about this, but I do think it is possible avoid the tyranny of the majority and support and value multiple forms of participation and the varied whys that each co-learner brings to this network.
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#ccourses Module 2 - Trust and Network Fluency
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Wow. You can annotate the text in a zeega. Need someone else to verify that they can see this in the Group
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Love the counter turns of the two women in the focus of the gif's frame. And the implicit question.
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Do we have the right to be forgotten?
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As a teacher I think that ideally we need to be forgotten. Our students need to make their learning their own. It is generation of their capability that we celebrate not ours in midwiving/husbanding it.
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The "Reservoir of Reciprocity" -
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Sometimes I don't trust anybody. Sometimes I lay myself open, vulnerable and without shield.
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Then again, it might just be because I now know them enough to understand their humor
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Me too, born in Australia but from Russian and German background - both parents born outside Australia. I've always felt that I am both and neither.
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I still feel kind of hybrid)
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our ability to share humor might be a function of how well we know each other
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Yes, there is the connection between friends who respond to the same humour and share interests, but there is also the shared history that allows common responses.
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Then this got me thinking about the difficulty of sharing humor not only across cultures, but online
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Because, of course, open online environments do not discriminate on the basis of race or anything else. Humour is such a tricky thing. You can live in the same house for decades and still not get somebody's sense of humour. It's almost a language in itself.
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And some “i have nooo idea what you’re talking about” things
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It’s interesting to study the effect of this on how well creative brainstorming works…
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how I never got the refs to Greek mythology
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Me too, and at Uni I studied literature, and was too busy to catch up on all the reading I needed to get the references. So when my first son proved to be a big reader, I made sure he read a lot of the mythologies - Greek, Roman, Norse, etc. I'm sure that kind of roundedness helps with self confidence. There's so much referencing - how much of our culture is referenced from history!
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In my PhD research, I ask a chicken-and-egg question about intercultural maturity and critical thinking.
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empathy
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is likely to be open-minded, curious, willing to question one’s own views, interested in understanding different world views – all of which mean this person is likely to behave positively in an intercultural learning experience
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A good critical thinker
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intercultural
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exposure to diversity
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But how to develop these characteristics?
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If you’re closed minded and not curious, you’re unlikely to seek intercultural exchange
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Can you change students from being closed minded to open minded? I hope so, because otherwise education is a waste of time. But sometimes I meet teachers who are so closed minded (in terms of trying new ways of teaching) that I give up hope.
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So which comes first?
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But if you have never been with people different from yourself, how do you learn to behave in these situations in such a way that helps you learn from it?
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and so you keep finding yourself in situations and you take advantages of opportunities to connect openly, and then you reap the benefits of that, which fuels you further?
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This is such an important question, and one I've been thinking about over the years. Do I give up with certain people and just focus on convincing those who are open? My job as a teacher librarian depends on convincing teachers that it's worth collaborating with me. Otherwise I can't work with students apart from traditional resourcing.
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how do you get someone into intercultural experiences
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Is it that you start out as someone who loves openness and connection
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Same questions could be asked of open/connected learners
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how do you develop critical thinking needed to develop intercultural maturity without being in an intercultural experience;
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But how would you “get in” if you don’t already have that attitude?
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That question plagues me with reference to whether we can actually draw people into open/connected learning
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Like Laura Gibbs, i’d take curiosity over security any day.
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A lot of people are monuments/avatars/objects before we decide to engage
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Someone said her students were shocked when a book author (Howard Rheingold) replied to their tweets. As in, they had not before really thought of him as a real person. Funny.
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Yes, my students are confused and very surprised that a 'real author' would even consider connecting to them online. Once an author was involved in my students' blog comments, and one student said he would rather not know him as a real person because he wouldn't be able to live up to his 'imagined' persona (my words).
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is it possible for someone to get interested in open and connected learning, to become a connected educator, without first experiencing the beauty, the potential of that, if they are not originally of open/connecting attitude? Or not digitally literate, even.
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I still wonder if what I experience as an enjoyable connective experience is unique to me and those who have chosen to participate. Maybe some teachers wouldn't find this kind of thing interesting or enjoyable.
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How do you draw them in to try? If you give a workshop on it, hands-on, will they come? Will it sound like gibberish and feel overwhelming?
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about how joining an academic conversation midway feels? It’s the same for joining an open online community or finding oneself in a new culture
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It takes time to figure out where to start, whom to talk to, how to talk, how to engage in culturally acceptable ways, etc.
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spite of [probably] [maybe] [sometimes] looking like silly fools.
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If you just want to sound smart, look dignified, write big dense paragraphs, then I don't read on.
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Just happened to me. I already know I am an idiot. I don't need anyone driving home the point! Unless they already know me and I trust them. Then it is OK.
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using the article here.
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Been watching this issue unfold with FB and the LGBT community, notably drag queens seeking to remain anonymous or who identify their real name as their drag queen moniker. Problem arises from the fear of letting folks decide for themselves and letting the solutions grow out of those choices. If anything this is the classic case for arguing for the simplest rules possible that arise from living together online. Whatever they might be. Instead of having all the exceptions listed in the article why don't we have them arise from being pseudonymous. And there will be some. And some of them will be deadly. Sadly, we cannot know for certain where the 'felicific calculus' will fall. I put my bets on freedom over policy until I am proven wrong.
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first I had to look up felicific calculus - method of working out the sum total of pleasure and pain produced by an act, and thus the total value of its consequence. I can see both sides of the argument, because pseudonyms can obviously used for harm as well as for the more pragmatic reasons. I agree - let the issues arise from the pseudonyms.
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Often we don't even know ourselves.
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That who you "really" are might be shared in the wrong place, with the wrong people, at the wrong time.
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Identity and trust ... crucial issues in the modern age on so many levels.
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on opposite sides of the political spectrum
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And yet ... avoid the echo chamber effect, too, right? Don't just hang out with peeps with the same views of the world as you. Encourage dissent and discussion, as long as it is reasonable discussion and peeps are open to ideas.
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we subsequently become addicted to the mentality of the anticipation of experiences in the future v
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I believe mindfulness can assist our abilities to selectively remove and reduce tasks that are just an byproduct of mindless conditioning into thinking we are being more productive and happy, when in fact they are simply creating layers of noise to block out the more significant signal of training our ability to be present.
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touches of sense...: Zootopia? - 0 views
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A touchstone piece, universal in that each of us can find a fractal piece or ourselves in it.
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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.
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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.
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Whatever happened to grand narrative?
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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
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fellow 'students' appeared to have their lives mapped out.
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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.
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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]
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pump.io by e14n - 1 views
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Looks like Known, but open source. Perfect for a closed, Path style limited or private alternative to Twitter et al.
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The Filter Bubble - 0 views
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How much do we suffer from the ill effects of the filter bubble (both external and internal)? How is the filter bubble different from the echo chamber? As facilitators in #ccourses what can we do to range out of our normal, self-drawn Venn diagrams?
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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.
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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.
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Everything Connects: a book review by Harold Jarche - 1 views
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A quiet little review by one of my favorite bloggers and trainers, Harold Jarche. Great quote here: They suggest dating new ideas from three main sources, of which the second is the most important in my opinion. The media you consume. The people you see. The events you attend.
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