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djplaner

In Connectivism, No One Can Hear You Scream: a Guide to Understanding the MOOC Novice -... - 0 views

  • I’m not a Constructivist, Behaviourist, Cognitivist, or Connectivist. This is not a call for a return to an older theory. I’m a pragmatist, like many educators. I flirt outrageously with every theory that will have me. I’m ideologically promiscuous.
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      "All models are wrong, but some are useful"
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    An article sharing problems facing a novice (technology novice and unconfident learners) in a connectivist setting and the implications that has for learning
djplaner

Student Data, Algorithms, Ideology, and Identity-less-ness - 0 views

  • These ideologies permeate new digital learning technologies. They reward the “roaming autodidact” while always judging others as inferior. (A lack of "intrinsic motivation," for example.)
  • We can help students understand their learning history without knowing their identity.”
  • What happens to bodies – particularly bodies of marginalized people – when they're submittted to a new knowledge regime that claims to be identity-less, that privileges identity-less-ness?
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    Picks up on some issues around MOOCs and other more recent implementations of NGL.
muzedujourney

Ed tech promoters need to realize we're not all autodidacts. - 1 views

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    An interesting article that suggests that we are not all automatically inquisitive learners. Considering networked learning requires a certain amount of self-directed learning which would be driven by curiosity perhaps networked learning is not for everyone. The article does suggest that some of the curiosity can be taught and that teachers and peers still have an role to play in learning
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    An interesting article that suggests that we are not all automatically inquisitive learners. Considering networked learning requires a certain amount of self-directed learning which would be driven by curiosity perhaps networked learning is not for everyone. The article does suggest that some of the curiosity can be taught and that teachers and peers still have an role to play in learning
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