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onewheeljoe

If Thou Beest a Moon Calf…More Stories from My Dark Night of the #CCourse Sou... - 0 views

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shared by onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • That’s what we want to do. Well…OK, that’s what I in my omniscient infinitude want to do. This is the problem of the connected classroom how can one give up the hiearchy, trusting that the course of things will be taken up in manifold ways and products?
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      Self deprecating about your role in the classroom and also reflecting on the need to give up the hierarchy. Can you turn the hierarchy on its head regularly and routinely? 
  • And therein lay the rub: in response to the fear and confusion I sensed in my students I became Uncle “Hub Central”. Understanding how to summarize became an external act outside their own minds consisting of checklists, algorithms, and templates designed to connect the dots that I so faithlessly put on the page. But in the end I believe that summing up needs to be an internal algorithm that rises up as a personal exigency, a massing together of sets of neuronal allies, firing and wiring like a mosh pit of nodal “hands” holding up the crowd surfing madman named Summary.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      Here you are tough on yourself again while the rock and the hard place remain exactly where you found them. In my view, Uncle Hub Central responded with support strategies (I'm shocked to discover your use of the word scaffold, Terry. :) How might you throw out the bathwater of hierarchy while tucking the baby of your support strategies under your arm? If the hierarchy disappeared, how might you leverage your support skill and instinct in a more networked, dynamic way?
  • Meaning making and perhaps internal connecting? A consummation devoutly to be wished.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      How might you insist on the meaning making and internal connecting? Above you showed how you insist on summary. 
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  • Best practice/worst practice. The problem with this variant of the post hoc fallacy is that we don’t really know if the strategies all arose as a ‘one off’ case, a sample of one, or as a truly generalizeable theory of action. Heraclitus (and his kissing cousin, Chaos Theory) argues that we really can’t step twice in the same river. In other words, initial conditions are always different from case to case in the dreaded ‘real world’. Those initial conditions almost always lead one astray from the desired results. Post hoc thinking is almost always wrong.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      The best practice/worst practice piece has tremendous power. It is at the core of your reflection and might be at the core of reform. Is this the theme I think it is? 
  • Perhaps I will discover the best case scenario for each of my classes. Perhaps not. Perhaps the success will come in the constant trumpeting of both “baby step” successes as well as “falling and hitting our heads on the coffee table, let’s go to the emergency room” failures. I just need to move my primary default mode from hub to node. They are more responsible for their own learning than I am. I share a duty to them, but the process is messy. We are all moon calves when it comes to learning. Moon calves.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      Your conclusion reads like a beginning to me. How is the hub kidding himself about his role and his impact? How is the node superior as a teacher and learner? 
Sheri Edwards

Actually, practice doesn't always make perfect - new study - The Washington Post - 0 views

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practice perfect study washington post strauss alfie_kohn engagement motivation collaborating

shared by Sheri Edwards on 06 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • They found that how interested the students were in the passage was thirty times more important than how “readable” the passage was.
  • Maybe the right question to ask is: Why do some people decide to practice a lot in the first place? Could it be because their first efforts proved mostly successful?   (That’s a useful reminder to avoid romanticizing the benefits of failure.) Or, again, do they keep at it because they get a kick out of what they’re doing? If that’s true, then practice, at least to some extent, may be just a marker for motivation. Of course, natural ability probably plays a role in fostering both interest and success, and those two variables also affect each other.
  • By contrast, when the hours were logged, and the estimates presumably more reliable, the impact of practice was much diminished. How much? It accounted for a scant 5 percent of the variance in performance. The better the study, in other words, the less of a difference practice made.[1]
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  • What’s true of time on task, then, is true of practice — which isn’t surprising given how closely the two concepts are related.
  • Sheri Edwards on 06 Aug 14
     
    "The question now is what else matters." And there are many possible answers. One is how early in life you were introduced to the activity - which, as the researchers explain, appears to have effects that go beyond how many years of practice you booked. Others include how open you are to collaborating and learning from others, and how much you enjoy the activity."
Sheri Edwards

The Introspection of a Pedagogue: Gamification: Good or bad? I say good! - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • In my social studies classes I am a fan of games that go beyond the simple answer a question get a point and instead cause students to debate within and without their table group, think critically, and make a decision.  Games are not some aberration that teaches students to think life is a game, but instead is creating an environment that allows for difficult concepts to be acted out in a safe environment.
  • even if the game doesn’t come out great the teacher tried to be creative instead of hiding behind what “works". 
  •  I also think that at times to much has been pushed onto the “best practices” and has slowed creative thought.  The best practices have a place and they work very well when used properly, but when do we stop saying what teachers are doing is wrong because they don’t look like the person next door?  Are we all supposed to be clones teaching in the same way all the time?  I think not.  But I suppose that is a different topic to tackle on different post. 
  • Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14
     
    "We are not just handing out badges, but implementing creative ways to engage students to help them try on concepts for size.  We are not sugarcoating anything and in some ways are able to engage the students in debates that they could not have without the simulation.  In short, we are building the future senators, doctors, lawyers, etc of the world that learned skills from the game and will apply them to their adult life. "
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: In a tangle. - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • "We might cool down the conversation with explicit norms, clarifying our objectives and assumptions,offer facilitation and other support in an attempt to achieve real dialogue. Over time the constraints could be loosened."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Howsabout we use something besides abstract nouns, words that remove us from feeling and touch? Cool, hell this is downright cold.
  • emotional blackmail and silencing tactic?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Oh, yes, Simon.  You are effectively self-silencing.  The best kind of kink in the communication hose, n'est ce pas?
  • "Who is in? Who is out?" and when and where and who decides?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      I am always an outsider, by termperament and by design.  Iconoclast is the word I use to describe myself.  I actually get a bit sick when I feel I am on the IN. I love the OUT. And I don't need a fucking box cutter to get out.  Something goofy, hilarious, and irritating about the video.  A classic out-y as far as I can tell.  Not so much a prophet as someone who says, "Fuck you. Now what are you going to do about it."  I live in a part of Kentucky where that attitude has been raised to an art form.  It's called cutting off your nose to spite your face.  I am a practitioner.  
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  • There is not one community. There are multiple communities. These multiple communities are not fixed (much).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Or alternatively there is no community?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
  • I don't do belonging very well.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Rumi: You are granite. I am an empty wineglass. My question is this:  who are you and who is the community.  And more...maybe you are the falling glass or the rising granite.  Confusing and confabulatory, no doubt.  
  • I am a man for example. (of this I AM SURE).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Cool this down?  No, I dinna think so.  Not a hoochycoochy man.  
  • I am a human tangle embodied.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      And more.  More than a man, a h-u-m-a-n.   And an entangled body way more tangled than just your communities.  And weaving from past to future through memes and genes.  A regular Gordian Knot.
  • So I suppose I could say that the varied and fluctuating communities in and around rhizo14 have varied and fluctuating curricula.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Which is to say--there is no curriculum.  Omnia saecula saeculorum.
  • Rhizomatic Learning, it would seem to me that this is as far as we can take it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Which I never wanted to take down into the academic abatoire to tear apart and eat.  The rotten corpse afterwards just stank.  
  • no 'cool web' or 'hot web'
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Well...I am happy in my ignorance as to what this signifies much less means.  For the month of February I have been living pretty damned close to the bone, flaying and being flayed.  Hard, sharp edges to my life can't even be bothered to say, fuck this shit, I got better thought to thunk. 
  • Keith Hamon has written a great (IMHO) post about complexity ethics.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Tried to read this.  in fact, what I do understand of it I wrote about in a different context a couple of weeks ago.    
  • Assertive Humility.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Oxymorons point to the paradox of language, the Babel-ical inadequacy of words.  How helpful are they except to make us sit bold upright and pay heed to how entangled and embodied our knowing (and not knowing) are.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Of course, in all humility, I am being totally derivative in this annotated response.  Nothing original although I am repeatedly striking my flint to your rock.
  • There are moments when I am moved to formal academic research.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      I am almost never driven to formal academic research.  It shrivels and circumscribes and confines like an unwanted annotation.
  • I prefer to be inclusive.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      I weary of the fond hope of reciprocation.  In myself and in others.  Mostly in others.  I am unashamed to admit I need it. I am astonished that it is so little given online.  So I give it elsewhere and, as is said in labour circles, I withdraw my goodwill.  
  • I wonder how these co-exist - in a warm soup of happiness?
  • Thank you for your part in my tangle.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      Quantum entanglement back atcha.
  • I am in good company.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
  • That in itself gives me some cause for hope.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
  • There is a light side and there is a dark side.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
      My way or the highway?
  • I am in a bit (?) of a tangle.
  • I am not at all sure whether drawing a line is appropriate.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Mar 15
       
Terry Elliott

Symphony of Ideas: 2014 - a year of connection, disconnection, and loss - 0 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

shared by Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • 2014 was a year of work. 2015 should be a year of fun. That's my resolution.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 15
       
      Then you have to play without end or purpose in sight.  That is the infinite game.
  • Indeed, wrestling myself away from my smartphone might be just the signal my muse needs to come around to visit me again
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 15
       
      I am beginning to practice what James Altucher suggests here:  http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2014/05/the-ultimate-guide-for-becoming-an-idea-machine/
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 15
       
      One my ideas was that we could start a 10 Creative Ideas Club using Hackpad.  Here is link to prototype: https://hackpad.com/The-10-Creative-Ideas-Club-lQtZ3D1hY7x
  • Relocating the muse
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 15
       
      Keep jabbing at the dog named Resistance that protects the Muse. Keep jabbing.
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  • One of my desires as a teacher and learner is to obscure the artificial boundaries that exist between formal and informal learning, 'school' and 'real life'. Such distinctions between digital connection and analog, 'face to face' connections should also be blurred.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 15
       
      I think one way to do this blurring is to observe and share more of your own life.  I am beginning a series of posts called "Petty Joys" that chronicle the 'small beer' of my life, stuff I love that doesn't rise to the level of epiphany.  I am blurring the lines so that the editor in my head doesn't send out a rejection letter.  My first petty joy is the peanut butter stirrer. Watch for it.
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