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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
swatson217

Unconference & Backchannels as Sidorkin's Third DiscourseReflecting Allowed | Reflectin... - 3 views

blog.mahabali.me/...s-as-sidorkins-third-discourse

unconference discourse ccourses

shared by swatson217 on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • backchannel conversations with people via social media; and unconferences
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 24 Sep 14
       
      In many ways, this is the value of the open education movement -- the chance to interact without direct instruction from the "talking head" in the classroom. It's a dip into the unknown, though, and requires a certain social media/reading skills -- what to ignore and what to pay attention to, and how does it all connect to the learning and discovery
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 27 Sep 14
       
      I agree about the talking head!
  • one’s own nonsense may be someone else”s sense
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 24 Sep 14
       
      This could be an alternative tag line for my blog!
  • by focusing on my small groups of people (often not even using the hashtag to be honest; sometimes in DM or in private hangouts; other times in public on blogs) I am making my own path as I intersect with others’ paths.
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  • Sidorkin suggests the latter is the best part of a good party.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 25 Sep 14
       
      This reminds me of MIT's unhangout software with breakout rooms.
  • But then the best part of a conference
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 25 Sep 14
       
      Yes, I can remember at every conference there is a canceled presentation where folks gather around and just chat about...stuff--ad hoc and improvisational. We need a simple discussion protocol that is quick in and quick out, save for asynchronous discussion.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Did you see that post by... A wordpress site called emergentbydesign (Simon shared it, i think) where the author suggests a kind of mindful chat roulette based on interest?
  • Kevin Hodgson on 24 Sep 14
     
    on the value of the backchannel conversations
  • swatson217 on 27 Sep 14
     
    on the value of the backchannel conversations
swatson217

Mimi Ito - Weblog: Connected Learning = Abundant Opportunity + Terror + Hard Attentiona... - 7 views

itofisher.com/...cted_learning_abundant_op.html

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  • Most were reluctant
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Learned behavior, learned mindsets. Unlearning is the devil's own.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Reminded of my first attempts with zeegas--unclear, uncertain
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      And we learn in those uncomfortable moments, including how to create our own agency with technology. With Zeega, you've pushed the boundaries in many directions, Captain Zeega.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      It's scary at first but once you get used to it, it's easier than F2F in my opinion.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      I think I now find it easier than f2f too... That probably requires elaboration, though :) as I know it's not intuitive. I wonder if it is a phase everyone goes through to finally reach that comfort, or if it is just something some people are more disposed to enjoy/be comfortable with, while others not (like intro/extroversion)
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 28 Sep 14
       
      with an online comment/post, there is no interruption, no direct contact to 'see' how others take what you say or do, and this can make it easier- or at least appear 'safer' on a personal front - esp. considering the teens Mimi was talking about... but, there is also a sense of permanence when people write and put something out there, whereas in f2f, what you say is gone in that moment. When something is written, people (potentially anyone) can come back to it, and this can be perceived as a threatening sort of exposure, perhaps even the person writing it might not want to have to see it again... so it is both easier and harder at the same time for different reasons for different people.
  • Despite the encouragement of local mentors, they didn’t see themselves are part of that world and ready to contribute, at least not yet.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Schema. Or as max Stirner calls them,"wheels in the head".  Wheels in the head are any ideas that the mind cannot give up.  For example, I am not an artist/creator/maker,  I am a consumer.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 26 Sep 14
       
      How do we decide who's enthusiastic? What is being Net Savvy? The difference between introversion, extraversion and the level of ease a person finds in company of others for whatever reason. Are all modes of communications comfortable to everybody and why? On a personal note: I am not comfortable writing at all but I can talk for hours when it comes to f2f :)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Sep 14
       
      I totally admire your English.  It's way better than my Egyptian. ;-)
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      I've experienced Maha's talking firsthand via phone and it's awesome :) But I like her writing too, even if she doesn't feel comfortable with it. So cool to have you here in Diigo Maha!
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 28 Sep 14
       
      I'll graciously accept your kindness, both of you /curtsy (a WoW emote, if you're wondering) :) But seriously, I've had managers and even senior mangers who would sit very quietly, apparently (stress on apparently) reluctant to contribute to a conversation/discussion in a training situation. I used to catch myself making assumptions as to why (won't go into that here, too long) then see them fully engaged in an exercise where they had to sit on the floor and use Lego pieces. When I tried different approaches they did join A conversation, not necessarily mine, not necessarily with me watching, but they learned and contributed to the learning. hmmm now I'll start editing myself /lol so better stop and hit post. .
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 14
       
      Yes, I have this problem all the time in the classroom where my expectations get in the way of reality. Trying more to be mindful of this blindspot in my teaching.
  • Help! How do I know what to pay attention to?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      A good reminder that everyone has their own thresholds for navigating the flow in a "space" like #ccourses, and that even the most savvy will miss a whole lot of the interactions. That's OK.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      This also raises one of the essential questions of connected learning:  what do we attend to and how?  We have to have a basis for filtering (another name for attending).  Some of these filters are very fine and designed to have potable water as their product, but most are very porous screens designed to get the big rocks out so that we can build meaning with them.  And the ability to switch out filters should be one of the hallmarks of a capable person in digital systems.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Thresholds were originally a barrier to the grain escaping from the threshing room floor and out the door.  It was intended to prevent waste.  We don't have the same kind of scarcity in a connected space.  We can't be concerned about "waste".  Instead we have to be obsessed with making sure that we have the best grain in the mill so that we can have the best flour.  Maybe we need one out of a hundred of the grains in order to have the very best flour.  You don't get that with a threshhold.  You get it by finding a way to sort and winnow the best from the rest and not just the wheat from the chaff.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      It's difficult to break out of the traditional concept of following a defined sequential path and instead dip into the stream.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      Yes, #clmooc was my first nonlinear course, and it was a learning curve to grasp the webbed nature of participating - but once I did, it was such a beautiful thing!
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  • Quiet
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      Still on my reading list ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Check out the TED talk above for the tl;dr version.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      That book helped me and others I know to realise that being an introvert was not a weakness, and to accept ourselves and not push against who we are.
  • “xdogx”
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      See: https://flic.kr/p/p7rUiM  for my comic response (of sorts)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      great comic response :)
  • In many ways these different forms of participation fit into what Internet product people might call an > engagement funnel where newcomers and the less net savvy like me march steadily from awareness to engagement to becoming active contributors and content generators.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      Yes, and we need to value all levels of the participation, too. Us loudies need to make sure we are inviting, not shouting so loud that others feel they can't contribute, or feel guilty about not contributing. Now that I think of it, my own appeal for more facilitators to get involved in the social media spaces of CCourses runs into conflict with that very statement. Dang it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      No, I think it can be reconciled,Kevin. If other step up, you can step back or shout in a different direction or encourage and cajole in different spaces. Or just chill and observe and report back.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 26 Sep 14
       
      @Kevin I don't think there's a conflict. More involvement is not equal to shouting so loud. May be we need to think of being more inviting in more ways?
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 26 Sep 14
       
      I also don't see a conflict but I do think the question of what the right invitations are is crucial. Having the "loudies" (lol) to keep modeling high engagement is essential and I at least have appreciated the individual pokes and invitations from this same core group.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Love this thread, and thank you Maha and Mimi for letting us know that we "loudies" (cute term, will adopt!) are not shouting too loud for you (though we may be too loud for others)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I never thought of myself as a loudie, and am on the introvert-side of the continuum for sure, but the folks at #clmooc taught me that exponential things happen when you jump in.  Thise who are "too" quiet may not know what they are missing.
  • colliding through a loosely orchestrated cross-network remix
  • constellation
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      I am big on the constellation metaphor -- the stories that emerge when stars are connected by imagination.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Made me think of u immediately, Kevin, that thing u did for #clmooc - the word constellation evokes that for me now
  • This heterogeneity can feel like chaos and collision of competing styles and expectations, but I also see it as 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, and opportunities for recognition. In kids’ lives these are friends, interest-based activities, and school. In connected courses, this is the reciprocity and fun in the social stream, our personal interests and expertise, and institutional status/reputation.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      Dang. She hits a home run with this paragraph!
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Simon Ensor's Clavier Project simplifies this to providing an interesting space so that interesting people can do interesting 'things'.  I admire the abstraction here and would love to see the practice in the previous paragraph.  Phonar/clmooc/ds106/diy.org/kqed's do now/Paul Allison's Youth Voices. This is where this theory tears into the road and the rubber either stays on the tire or you get new tires.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 26 Sep 14
       
      I am not sure how are they disconnected? I see them as intersecting. Take the example of someone playing a team sport that they love. All spheres are represented and interconnected almost merging together. School and work can be sketchy where, depending on teachers,managers, colleagues, available choices etc, some spheres become larger or smaller and affect the balance of the picture.
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 26 Sep 14
       
      Maha that must mean you are a connected learner :). Sadly I feel a lot of kids are "learning" just for the grade and they don't see it as part of what they are interested in or what they are socially connected to.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Maha's and Mimi's responses are a good reminder about how connection is not just about online or tech. It should be obvious but we can sometimes forget that!
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am still struggling to get teachers to see the value of this connecting.  I know, it's a marathon.
  • We are still struggling with how to capture some of the complexity of the activity of connected courses.
  • neck and neck race
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      And what is interesting -- most of their tweeting has been making connections together (I think -- no data to back that up. Jamieson?), as Simon and Maha work magic in the social media sphere.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Yeah, what is more interesting is the amount of UNHASHTAGGED tweeting between us (Simon, Kevin, Terry, Susan) as well as other stuff where i stop using the #ccourses tag... I sometimes do it on purpose to reduce my noise; other times to just squeeze a few extra chars in, and sometimes for semi-privacy. Until recently, Alan and Mariana were top tweeters, too. Tho i find the majority of their tweeting "supportive" as in, helping others, which i love about them both, whether it is official or unofficial
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I admittedly get caught up and forget to hashtag.  :)
  • We can see that so far about half our visitors are new, and that the spikes, again come with the live events
  • I hope that we can continue to embrace the abundance and diversity of forms and intensity of engagement while also guiding each other to try something new, to slow down or speed up our default metabolism, or appreciate a new perspective or geekdom.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      and the unexpected ...
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Definitely the unexpected :)
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.
  • co-facilitators
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      One of those filters is the folk and all manner of them, expert and otherwise.  The lived experience of the folk is one of the most profound filters we have.  Books are another.  The idea of ideas is another.  Metaphor and figurative language in general are others.  I think the notion of love is one of the most profound filters there is.
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 27 Sep 14
       
      My team had a motto back in the early days of Internet studies: "The best search engine is a well-informed friend." I am probably defaulting to this as my filter strategy. Not sure if this is the right one given the opportunity for new encounters on ccourses though.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Well, Mimi, you can add to your list of well-informed friends as you go :) that's how it works for me, a few key people connect me to everything and everyone else, then i'll meet a new person who becomes "key" coz i love what they help me connect to... And so on :)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      Love as a filter- yes, yes.
  • ruminating on the implications for Connected Courses
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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. 
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 27 Sep 14
       
      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!
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      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.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I hope Mimi is reading these comments :)
  • the most awesome staff
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.  
  • feeling the pull of the fragments of notes
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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. 
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 27 Sep 14
       
      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 :)!
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      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.
  • social stream that I know I’m missing.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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’ve so appreciated observing and learning from my more experienced online co-facilitators as they surf the rapids;
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 26 Sep 14
       
      Thank you for this Terry and for your courage in surfing the rapids!
  • I don’t even know what to say about @cogdog Alan who apparently can comment on blogs and make a GIF while hosting a live event.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.
  • “legitimate peripheral participants,”
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      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.  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      cornucopia/distributed network/cop/ cross-network remix/immersive theater/funnel/community/hybrid/constellation/stances. I am confused. Good.
  • or that the delicate social machinery we’ve stitched together is going to fall apart
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      The only way it will fall apart is if you don't trust the users to pick up the slack in the web.
  • Living at the collision of multiple CoPs, funnels of engagement and streams means that we can all find a way to succeed!
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Reminds me of a pinball.
  • mmersive theater where participants are all experiencing a different narrative.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      This is interesting to try to visualize; it takes my mind into photos of intertwined galaxies.  I wonder sometimes "how" different the narratives are that we each experience.  Perhaps the similarity fades as you move away from each rhizome that you participate in.  Of course, our perception of our narrative is crucially affected by our lens, our filter(s), our biases.
  • sequentially by different facilitators
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am curious how different facilitators will dip in differently...
  • pulled together some stats
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am glad you pointed this out - I had no idea these were on the CC site!
  • Our “open” rate on the emails to subscribers is a whopping 50.7% compared to the industry standard of 16.7%
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      interesting...I had no idea.
  • Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
     
    Wow -- this piece by Mimi Ito deserves the full annotation/comment of the group. Let's get into it!
  • swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
     
    Wow -- this piece by Mimi Ito deserves the full annotation/comment of the group. Let's get into it!
Tania Sheko

Settings for Trust in Connected Learning: an interview with danah boyd | HASTAC - 0 views

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settings connected learning interview boyd trust danah

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  • 1. What about our contemporary moment makes understanding trust important?
  • The public projects a lot onto technology. It is seen as both the savior of our current economy and the destroyer of our cultural fabric
  • organizations that are building or employing new technologies are rarely local or connected deeply to the communities that use them.
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  • 2. How are you thinking about trust in regard to connected learning?
  • When we talk about connected learning, we're implicating a whole host of different actors to enable learning - educators, parents, students, librarians, administrators, government agencies, technologists, learning companies, etc.  
  • 4. Do you know of any tools, procedures, apps, and/or systems enabling or disabling trust? How are they doing this? What do these  tools, procedures, and/or systems change how learning can happen in connected learning environments?
  • But trust starts from collectively recognizing that we're all working towards a desirable goal of empowering learners and realizing that getting there will be imperfect and require iteration.
  • 3. What are some of the biggest challenges to engendering trust you see in connected learning?
  • The other core issue is that people's failure to understand technology's strengths and weaknesses mean that the public often has unreasonable expectations regarding technology and its application.
  • understand, respect, and trust one another.  And then we need them to help bake trust into the systems that they build - technological, social, and governmental.
  • So a huge part of the process of building and sustaining trust is to plan for what happens when things go wrong.  We do this all the time in education - think about fire drills - but we don't realize how important this is when we think about technology.
  • . What are some of the literacies you think are required for learners to  have a digital “trust literacy”?
  • think that people need to understand how data is collected, aggregated, sold, and used in the process of enabling all sorts of everyday services.
  • How did Amazon decide to recommend that other product to you?
  • Why do you think you got the results you got on Google?
  • Why are you seeing the ads you're seeing on your local newspaper's site?
  • What happens when you Like something?
Howard Rheingold

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

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MOOCs connectedcourses

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  • 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

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  • 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
Tania Sheko

BBC News - Photography and open education - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...in-pictures-20495489

jonathan worth photography photographer open course

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  • Yet there is another way - open learning, where the majority of the students interact online with the face-to-face course being taught in a more traditional manner. With this comes a chance to share in the knowledge being offered by a wide range of tutors, photographers and others in the industry.
  • "I'd had to rethink what my product was as a photographer - I'd grown up thinking it was my images, but digital cameras meant everyone was a potential image maker. So I had to think why it was that I'd been successful in the past and I found a number of strands which proved very fruitful. That's the stuff we talk about in class."
  • I realised the real thing of value was not the knowledge but the learning experience.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • He uses Creative Commons licenses (CC) for his classes. "I'd always been an avid All Rights Reserved user but it just stopped making sense. The open classes can only work with a CC license, which was a big deal for the university because it turns out education establishment are avid All Rights Reserved users too. Much like me thinking I was just an image maker, the uni thought its product was 'knowledge' and their old business model relied on keeping a tight grip on that.
  • Worth's classes live on blogs and on Twitter (hashtag #phonar), and are proving a popular resource amongst photography enthusiasts and professionals alike.
  • accessible nature is appealing
  • list of contributors impressive.
  • Through my work with #phonar I have learnt the world is filled with lots of different people and we all think and learn differently. Coventry University has shown me it doesn't matter what disability you have, anything is possible.
Kevin Hodgson

Hyper-connected learning - using Diigo to share reflections on a post reflecting on ano... - 0 views

taniasheko.com/...ost-reflecting-on-another-post

ccourses

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  •  I was reading and getting excited by what I was reading, highlighting what spoke to me, and annotating my thoughts in Diigo – to myself! D’oh! How absurd was this scenario? I was part of Connected Courses, reading the same things as the very large cohort – why wasn’t I annotating to the group?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 27 Sep 14
       
      I think we've all had those moments of "how can I make this experience better" as we move towards a more connected, collaborative stance.
  • I admit that I try to engage in too many things on too many platforms at the same time, and recently I’m feeling the loss of a network of people I connect with in a deep way.
Kevin Hodgson

Connected Courses: Towards a guilt-free learning zone…. | WorldLiterate - 0 views

worldliterate.com/...rds-a-guilt-free-learning-zone

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  • Those who lurk also learn
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      It's just not always visible
Kevin Hodgson

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

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

ccourses

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  • 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
swatson217

Science of the Invisible: Academic Literacies - 3 views

scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/...academic-literacies.html

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    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      Maybe this is where the blending of higher-ed and MS/HS teachers could be a benefit - breaking down the bigger processes into the "how" steps more familiar to "lower" ed teachers??
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      Good point, although those discussions rarely happen ...
  • Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
     
    Picked up this link from Karen Labonte and am trying to work my way through the 1998 article a few pages at a time.
Terry Elliott

e844reader6.pdf - 1 views

labspace.open.ac.uk/...e844reader6.pdf

literacies literacy studies

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  • Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
     
    And another on literacy studies.  thinking Doug Belshaw's work, too.
Terry Elliott

The Disruption Machine - The New Yorker - 1 views

www.newyorker.com/...the-disruption-machine

disruption innovation ccourses

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  • Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
     
    A kick in the teeth to the concept of disruption.  Tired idea + bad research +ed echo chamber +crisis capitalism =  corporate higher education.
Kevin Hodgson

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

blog.mahabali.me/...arners-why-vs-the-teachers-why

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  • 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

The "learner's why" vs the "teacher's why"Reflecting Allowed | Reflecting Allowed - 4 views

blog.mahabali.me/...arners-why-vs-the-teachers-why

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  • but this post is long enough as it is…
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      Just for the sake of crazy recursion here is the comment I mad about commenting here: I have begun adding group annotations to this blog post.  Here is the group page for those who might want to join our Diigo group and comment along with us: https://groups.diigo.com/group/ccourses I think annotating this way is superior to commenting.  I suppose it is commenting, but carefully targeted to responding to a specific sentence or as fine-grained as the choice of a word.  Downside? While it is a public group it does call for an investment in learning how to annotate with Diigo.  My experience is that that investment pays back royally. Positive and negative?  It is messy, especially when you get tons of annotstors in the group. I love the annotated link tool that allows you to send a cached link to anyone to view even if they are not a Diigo user: https://diigo.com/04j3l2. I love how you can scrape all the comments and highlights out and then repurpose them.  It would be so much fun to try a project where each of us would do group annotations, turn them into a blog post and then create a zine or storify or use WP Anthologize to create an epub with all the posts and then commentary at the end. Ok, sorry Maha.  This has become some sort of recursive monster of a comment about comments within a comment. With no real comments about what you wrote in your comments box.  Technically, I think this might be a Klein bottle or s moebius comment.  
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      I love the recursive monster.  Great idea about the fun project.  :)
  • this topic was Mia Zamora’s “guilt-free” zone piece.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 21 Sep 14
       
      I never bought into this guilt free deal.  Shame free, but I think guilt might also be a byproduct of not reciprocating.  It is one's conscience at work.  I feel guilty that my papers are not marking themselves.  I feel guilty that my markings are si imperfect and often futile.  I feel that guilty is like friction: you had better have some if you want navigate a twisty track with others. 
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      Hmmmmmmm.....I still wish more people were being reciprocal.  A little guilt is sometimes a good motivator.  I agree.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      This makes me curious to know the "Why" of the CCourses facilitators.
    • Howard Rheingold
      Howard Rheingold on 24 Sep 14
       
      The why for me is to introduce open, connected learning -- the infrastructure, the methods, the culture -- to more educators. To model, support, and communicate with them. With the hope that they will enlist, educate, and support others. I do buy into the guilt-free deal. Why should learning and communication always be painful? Why not do what you feel like doing once in a while.
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • the “why” of the #ccourses facilitators (wonderful people as they are) is likely not only different for each one of them,
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 22 Sep 14
       
      just a test here to see if you can highlight over a portion of someone else's highlight.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      I have a hard time with the videos, too....if I could sped them up, I think I could focus better.
  • leaving an impression of a “formal” course
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      I guess my nature is to ignore that which I don't need to think about...this had not even crossed my mind :)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      I have no idea if I am doing any of this annotating correctly.  Bear with me, folks.  Maha, I think I told you that a collegaue is using your can of ingredients" activity with her class.  I will share if any of them actually finish it.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      Here we run into the newbie's problem of not knowing what you don't know.  It takes some active engagement and searching out connections and information to start to feel like you have a handle on it...catch 22 if you don't, you have no idea what you are missing.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 22 Sep 14
       
      Remember that when you unhighlight what someone says, you also dump their comment off the page (although it is still in the Diigo group page).
  • the “why” of the #ccourses facilitators (wonderful people as they are) is likely not only different for each one of them
Terry Elliott

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

dogtrax.edublogs.org/...three-comics-for-ccourses

ifttt delicious diigo

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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.
Kevin Hodgson

Even in my shoes, you're still you: on autoethnographyReflecting Allowed | Reflecting A... - 3 views

blog.mahabali.me/...e-still-you-on-autoethnography

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    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      I would love to hear more about this or read a post about it if one exists!
  • Collaborative autoethnography
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 21 Sep 14
       
      This sounds like it would be a fun and enriching sort of research :)
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      I imagine it sort of glass shards. When pulled together, the true story might eventually emerge. And if not all the pieces are in place (ie, perspectives), the view gets skewed a bit. or something like that ...
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  • incomplete story of oneself
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      Isn't this always the case? We have an incomplete narrative of who we are, because we are focused on our own experience and motivations, and the true narrative of self unfolds both inside and outside of us. 
  • They can build an amount of empathy, but they can never reach full understanding.
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