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Tania Sheko

A human OER | doublemirror - 6 views

  • the web does ‘make sense of what we are doing and where we individually fit in’.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      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
       
      But it is how we pull those fractals together that pushes us to consider/reconsider emerging literacies
    • Terry Elliott
       
      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
       
      humans as pattern makers even where there is none or even where they might be
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      An essential question for anyone working on the web.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      Agreed
  • I want to be part of the larger whole, not just the subset.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      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
       
      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
       
      Love the poetic ideal here, and I think it is this element that brings us back into a space to connect with others.
    • swatson217
       
      I have been struck by the same thoughts
  • My ‘hashtag home’
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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”.
profrehn

Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project - 0 views

    • profrehn
       
      Love this! need to learn more about how this worked. maybe meet teacher via RFD? 
  • As part of the social media class, my students are required to set up a network of online mentors using social media tools.
  • This semester, I asked my students to “curate” that information the way a museum curator would curate an art exhibit.
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  • In essence, I tasked students with  creating the ultimate resource on a particular topic and to share it with the world.
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    plns and curation 
Terry Elliott

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

  • I am typically
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Reaching forth.
  • no balance
    • Terry Elliott
       
      unbalanced
  • Work. More work. No walks.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      unmoored
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  • exercise.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      inert
  • Lots of trying. Hamster-wheeling.  More trying.  Reflecting.  Action planning.  Susan-What-Are-You-Doing self-chats.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      neutral nowheres
  • So I went on a walk today
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Lord, please don't make me basic, please not basic.
  • for weeks?
    • Terry Elliott
       
      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
       
      Semiotics. Awash in signs.
  • I get it
  • Two "No Outlet" signs.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      secret doors. keep looking.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Homo significans
  • Thanks, universe.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Signifier and signified all one in you.
  • neutral, robotic
    • Terry Elliott
       
      neutral+robotic=neurotic? 
  • trying to yell at me.
  • I also noticed beauty
    • Terry Elliott
       
      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
       
      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
       
      yes
  • Simple things.  Team things.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      People fuck up.  People disappoint. Especially when they don't have any money in the pot, something to lose.
Kathrine Jensen

Ethical use of Student Data for Learning Analytics Policy - 1 views

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    Ethical use of Student Data for Learning Analytics Policy by Open University
Jeffrey Keefer

Digital Writing Month - 0 views

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    Digital Writing Month is a (somewhat) insane month-long writing challenge, a wild ride through the world of digital writing, wherein those daring enough to participate wield keyboard and cursor to create digital projects of text, image, and/or sound in the thirty days of November. Modeled after the inspirational National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), DigiWriMo asks writers to be creative not just with their words, but also with other digital media -image, video, and sound - and with what those media can do. We will work to redefine "writing" in the digital, and not confine it only to words, but open up the possibilities of narrative and exposition within multimedia and multimodal projects. Where that "writing" resides, what it looks like, how it interacts with other works and authors, is entirely up to the wild imaginings of each DigiWriMo participant. Writers may choose to collaborate with one another on a long piece, like a novel or collection. They may conspire, co-author, cooperate, collude, or even compete… Blog posts, Twitter essays, podcasts, music videos, wiki novels, a tv pilot co-authored in a Google Doc, slideshows, academic articles, massively co-authored poems, songs, and novels are all potential ways to cross the finish line. The point is to experiment, to push our boundaries and create, and to locate our creations on the web, in relationship with other creations, other words and other authors. You do it your way, whatever way that is, and we'll provide the applause.
Terry Elliott

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

  • we were not sure how it would go, but it soon become clear that the kids are alright
    • Terry Elliott
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       

      Record and upload voice >>
  • This is what it looked like, and sounded like …
    • Terry Elliott
       
      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

Hour of Code Collaboration 2014 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 2 views

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    Pictures of the backs of kids heads means they are really eyes front and really digging it.  Also...the hands.  When I taught eighth graders and was particularly frustrated with the day, I trained myself to observe their hands.  They were still children's hands.  I don't know why but that always triggered the empathy juice. Good to see.  Were most pairs of the same gender?
Terry Elliott

Don't Abandon the World | Attention Must Be Paid | RhetCompNow - 1 views

  • Attention Must Be Paid
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Reference here to Death of A Salesman and his fears of abandonment.  
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I wish Diigo made it a little easier to figure out how to add to someone else's annotations in public space ... or is it just me?
Terry Elliott

Don't Abandon the World | Attention Must Be Paid | RhetCompNow - 1 views

  • ripped all 20 ways
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I am all about the rip ... and sharing inspirational thinking ...
    • Terry Elliott
       
      ripremix...remixrip...ripemixr...anagrams anyone?
  • Change Perspective Reframe the familiar
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      These two dovetail nicely, right? Finding the time to do this -- and the energy -- is important, and yet ... how many of us do it? 
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Love the Stones in the background singing "Gimme Shelter"
  • Poeticize the irritating
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      What ... the ...heck ...does ... that...mean? Another phone call ringing off the hook three on the main line seven on the cell all to tell us what we already figured out on our own by looking out the window ... school has been cancelled due to the white covering and the threat of rain, freezing all of our plans in their tracks....
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      Hmmm ... poem formatting got flattened there ....
    • Terry Elliott
       
      But isn't flattened as I read it.  Did you 'fix' it somehow?
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      No -- it was flattened in the text box when I was annotating but seems OK here .. strange, right? Am I flat stanley or not?
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  • Soundmap
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I want to do more with soundmapping .... I am  reading Steven Johnson's How We Got to Now and the chapter on how sound transformed out lives is so interesting ...
  • bullet points all week by adding my own annotations to them using Diigo
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I wanted my comments to mesh with your comments, but found I hit a wall and could not remember how to do that, so I have made my own. http://gph.is/18S0U2u
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
    • Terry Elliott
       
      OK, I am annotating your annotated link right here.  So...it does work and you can collaborate and its serves Beltran right for being a Yankee now.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      Yer talking to a Yankee fan ...
Terry Elliott

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

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

Snow Day, Jazz Play, Loki's Way | RhetCompNow - 0 views

  • Kevin
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Dogtrax as the Dude.
  • by me:
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Tellio as Walter Sobchak
  • was a snow day
    • Terry Elliott
       
      What's a little snow.
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  • Unfettered time
    • Terry Elliott
       
  • Loki pops up
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Release the Kraken!
  • not forbidden is allowed
    • Terry Elliott
       
  • a jazz story
    • Terry Elliott
       
  • call and response
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Call and response: 
    • Terry Elliott
       
      classic call and response;
  • improv riff
    • Terry Elliott
       
  • a gift from the gods because they love to see us play
  • Just don’t put yer eye out, kid.
    • Terry Elliott
       
  • James Carse
    • Terry Elliott
       
    • Terry Elliott
       

      Audio recording >>
Terry Elliott

Hiding Emotion behind NumbersReflecting Allowed | Reflecting Allowed - 0 views

  • animated gif in a zeega Terry Elliott
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Here is the link: http://zeega.com/170893
  • but our real need is to feel loved ok, that’s a bit extreme, but you know
    • Terry Elliott
       
      No, this is not extreme at all. Love has so many forms and all are worthy.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      "People read about love as one thing"  But it is many things, deep and wide, too.
  • they noticed that my whole article was really about that
    • Terry Elliott
       
      I have just the book for you: Sentipensante Pedagogy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3557358-sentipensante-sensing-thinking-pedagogy# Sentipensante Pedagogy and Contemplative Practice from Center for Contemplative Mind on Vimeo.
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  • love could shine through
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Revealed truth, kind of like discovered check in chess.
  • qualitative vs quantitative research
    • Terry Elliott
       
      It's all a matter of perspective, yes?
Terry Elliott

How I Read Slow or The Lessons of Participatory Epistemology | TRU Writer - 0 views

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  • recursively
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Recursion like sourdough or yogurt, recursion as depth.
Terry Elliott

The Shape of a Story | The Learning Coach Today - 1 views

  • ‘inciting incident’
    • Terry Elliott
       
      I wonder if this is what I call the complication.  His is a more verb-y than mine.  Mine is like the chemical term catalyst.  Drop it in and stuff happens. His is more like a fire heating the pot to a boil.
  • But description is not narration.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Not sure I get the distinction.  
    • J.Randolph Radney
       
      For me, description is more static; description is of 'objects', where narration is 'description' of events. Description might not have a 'story line'.
  • Then again, I’m not a published author, so following me might lead to misfortune.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Well, you published this.  Good on ya and thanks.
Terry Elliott

tsheko: Waiting for Freire A play ... - Notegraphy - 0 views

Terry Elliott

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

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

2009-dornyei-mm.pdf - 0 views

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Terry Elliott

Impedagogy - 1 views

  • A road not taken
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