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Terry Elliott

Teaching Beyond Tropes: Quicksand, Ellipses - 0 views

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  • trailing off,
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Apr 15
       
      If my thoughts have been trailing off
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Apr 15
       
      an ensuing "then" clause, or apodosis.
  • my thoughts have been...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Apr 15
       
      the "if" clause (protasis) of a condition is stated
  • Quicksand, Ellipses
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Apr 15
       
      Aposiopesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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  • neuronal emersion
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Apr 15
       
      Immersion (virtual reality) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • violet tenderness
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Apr 15
       
      Violently tender, tenderly violent.
  • And wait...
Sheri Edwards

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

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introspection gamification

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. "
onewheeljoe

Is It Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools? - Hybrid Pedagogy - 0 views

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  • The sorts of hardware and software that were purchased had to meet those needs — the needs and the desire of the administration, not the needs and the desires of innovative educators, and certainly not the needs and desires of students.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      And the needs of the IT -- not teachers and students
  • we must stare critically at the belief systems that are embedded in these tools.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      identity -- what identity must education take?
  • The mainframe never went away. And now, virtualized, we call it “the cloud.” Computers and mainframes and networks are a point of control. Computers are a tool of surveillance. Databases and data are how we are disciplined and punished. Quite to the contrary of Seymour’s hopes that computers will liberate learners, this will be how all of us will increasingly be monitored and managed.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I hope she suggests a solution. #clmooc would be leaders. How to share this perversion of possibilities.  The "adjacent possible" of the good became the priority instead of adjacent.
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  • The latter should give us pause
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I'm pausing. So many things reeling in my head: how can bad be the most powerful? people: identities unaccepted; control;  We're supposed to be civilized. But are we -- if this is what we do?
  • challenge it
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      When we challenge it, we will see HOW the data will be used against us as those controlling it will want to silence us, not find another way to work with people.
  • little thought about the Terms of Service,
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I do read the terms of service, and I know that Google wants me to share, so gives me my ownership. Yes, collecting data. Advertising.  So how do we as those sharing, work with Google, etc. to to make a better world? What is a "better world" ? Aren't there Google aspects reaching out to help identify environmental and social problems? Is everything here bad? I don't want it to be.
  • control over our access to knowledge.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      There it is control. What do you want them to do? What is the people's goal?
  • “Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.”
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I remember. My brother made a keypunch card with "the finger" on it. 1970s  I wonder where I put that? His quiet push back.
  • you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      And, again, where is the HOW? How do we push back? The optout movement has started, and the pushback on them is fierce; fierce to keep the testing going. What do "the people" do? This is the alarm. We have no firetruck. Give us some tools. Now. Please.
  • ISTE is the perfect place to question what the hell we’re doing in ed-tech in part because this has become a conference and an organization dominated by exhibitors. Ed-tech — in product and policy — is similarly dominated by brands. 60% of ISTE’s revenue comes from the conference exhibitors and corporate relations; touting itself as a membership organization, just 12% of its revenue comes from members. Take one step into that massive shit-show called the Expo Hall and it’s hard not to agree: “Yes, it is time to give up on computers in schools.”
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 30 Jun 15
       
      What are some ways we can evaluate the knowledgeable others who inform our practice, or the organizations that supply the tools we adopt in schools, to always understand the market motivations at work?
  • The stakes are high here in part because all this highlights Google’s thirst for data — our data. The stakes are high here because we have convinced ourselves that we can trust Google with its mission: “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 03 Jul 15
       
      We've convinced ourselves that we can trust Google with its mission because to investigate the way Google might influence us by monopolizing search is beyond most people's ability or inclination to understand the inner workings of the Internet. 
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?
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      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
       
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