I’m not a programmer, I’m more of a “hack away at something and make it work” type of guy.
Building The Daily Create | Tim Owens - 0 views
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The homepage is a WordPress loop
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Connected Learning Principles | Connected Learning - 3 views
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connected learning
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What would it mean to think of education as a responsibility of a distributed network of people and institutions, including schools, libraries, museums and online communities? What would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding youths’ active participation in public life that includes civic engagement, and intellectual, social, recreational, and career-relevant pursuits? How can we take advantage of the new kinds of intergenerational configurations that have formed in which youth and adults come together to work, mobilize, share, learn, and achieve together? What would it mean to enlist in this effort a diverse set of stakeholders that are broader than what we traditionally think of as educational and civic institutions?
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Full Participation -- learning environments, communities, and civic life thrive when all members actively engage and contribute.
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So...is lurking to be discouraged? Personally, I see lurking as a positive step, sometimes the first step to full participation. Yet I also think that to end with lurking is and should be allowed. The choice to become more a part of a community should not be entered lightly. We should be showing learner when to lurk and when to jump in the shallow end and when to dive off the high board.
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Education as Platform: The MOOC Experience and what we can do to make it better ~ Steph... - 2 views
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And I have some metaphors up here to help people grasp how they should understand this. Football. Following football. There must be some football fans here; I've heard it's popular. And there are teams all over the world. How many of you follow the South American leagues? What, nobody? Some of you may follow the European leagues, Manchester United, yeah? How many of you follow Australian football; have you been following what Brisbane's been doing lately? No! Well how can you be a football fan if you're not following all of these? Aren't you tearing out your hair? You just can't keep up? Of course not. You are a football fan by choosing those football games, those teams, those associations that are interesting to you. And you know that there are ten-year olds playing football in the back yard, but you don't feel compelled to go out and watch just because it's football. You learn to let it go.
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And he contrasted that with the social kind of course that we see in Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, or the MOOCs that George, Dave and I have put on, where the action of the course is predominately interaction with each other.
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Dave Cormier, who might also be in the room - he's in the back doing his hallelujah wave - has done a number of really nice videos about what a MOOC is and how to be successful, and again, it's like I said before, success in a MOOC isn't just remembering content. Success is very much what you define success to be, and that sounds a little anti-intuitive. How can you get a job if success is what you define it to be? Then again, that comes back to the purpose of this in the first place. What is success in a MOOC? Dave defines five steps: - orient (figure out where stuff is), - declare (and what that means is, setting up a place for yourself, setting up an identity for yourself, even, a little but, using course tags to identify that part of your material that you're contributing as part of the course), - and then network (because once you set up your space and write some posts nothing happens; it's when you begin to connect with other people), - and as you network you begin to find people you have affinity with (not necessarily people who are the same as you, but people who you can talk to, people who have an interest in a subject that corresponds with your interests), - and then finally and most interestingly, find a purpose for the work that you are doing (why are you in this educational experience, where are you going to apply it).
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Here is a link to a png of the above: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dv6z5ufa5czcyqv/successful%20moocs.png Play?
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Is It Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools? - Hybrid Pedagogy - 0 views
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The word easy stands out to me here. Schools are proving that it isn't easy to subvert or to entrench the meritocratic, racially segregated, class-based system of education. There is deliberate struggle on both sides and progress is painfully slow. What I find to be true is that if you follow the money, you find that it the dollars are best organized in the effort to further entrench our inequitable systems.
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we need to get the ideologies that are hardwired into computers out of the classroom.
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These were days of experimentation, and as Seymour teaches us, re-imagining what these powerful machines could enable students to do. (That’s why the computer matters, Seymour argued — something you could tinker and think with. Not this other word that ISTE now invokes, “technology.”) And then came the network.
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