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Vanessa Vaile

When a Course becomes a Community | Felicia M. Sullivan - 2 views

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course community MOOC rhizo14

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  • Vanessa Vaile on 26 May 14
     
    "Dave Cormier, the mind behind Rhizomatic Learning 2014 (#rhizo14), just posted thoughts on his blog about creating a wonderful learning experience that went from a 6-week course to a self-propelled learning community.  The challenge as Cormier articulates it is how to bring in new learners into this community. His original plan - create a new course, but what about the energy of the existing learning community?  Connect the new course to the first course or simply bring the new learners into the existing community?"
Vanessa Vaile

The Power of Networks-Video + Links #rhizo14 - 0 views

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networks video power links Deleuze network theory rhizome Manual Lima

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  • Vanessa Vaile on 18 Jan 14
     
    example of carrying rhizomes beyond course and connecting to other areas --
Jaap Bosman

Improvisation Blog: A Short Introduction to Thinking in Educational Technology: Part 1 ... - 0 views

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critical thinking education learning phd

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  • Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
     
    Why do some many people want to study education?
  • Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
     
    about thinking in educational research and theorizing.
Jaap Bosman

Rhizomatic Learning: Cheating as Learning » Ralfe Poisson - 1 views

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cheating learning convention

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  • Jaap Bosman on 13 Jan 14
     
    Some remarks on cheating as a strategy. Hacking as cheating and cheating as gain an advantage. Cheating as removing the limitations of convention.
Jaap Bosman

Testing For Learning, Not Assessment : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - 0 views

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cheating learning

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  • Jaap Bosman on 13 Jan 14
     
    cheating as a teaching strategy. Testing effect. Links to Peter Nonacs (UCLA)
Jaap Bosman

6 Teaching Ideas Inspired by MOOCs | Reflecting Allowed - 0 views

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teaching ideas learning

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  • Jaap Bosman on 23 Jan 14
     
    practical ideas for rhizomatic learning
  • Jaap Bosman on 23 Jan 14
     
    another blog with practical solutions on rhzomatic teaching, do you like the ideas?
Cris Crissman

Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm | Which Way L.A.? - 1 views

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game theory cheating theory

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  • Cris Crissman on 18 Jan 14
     
    Nonacs proves the value of "flipping the test" is to stimulate new ways to perceive and solve problems with what's been learned rather than regurgitate what teacher expects.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 19 Jan 14
     
    then there was the story about the L.A. school district students getting iPads that were supposed to keep them on the school site and course resources... the students promptly hacked their iPads and let themselves out on the net
wayupnorth

Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum | Dave's Educational Blog - 7 views

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  • define what counts as knowledge.
  • painstaking process by which knowledge has traditionally been codified.
  • Knowledge as negotiation
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      The Secret Sits We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost
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  • The rhizome metaphor, which represents a critical leap in coping with the loss of a canon against which to compare, judge, and value knowledge, may be particularly apt as a model for disciplines on the bleeding edge where the canon is fluid and knowledge is a moving target.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      The future is already rhizomatic, it's just not evenly distributed.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      I wonder what disciplines he is referring to here. Which ones live on the edge these days? And is that changing?
  • clear definition of the word "knowledge" is difficult
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      The definition of knowledge is considered 'key' to the search for shared understanding. The more I read that sentence, the more it becomes the worm Ourboros. If it's a key, then the there is a locked something behind it. In litcrit this has been a fiercely fought battle. Some say it unlocks the power relationships undergirding any society, some say it unlocks the mysteries in the knowers themselves. Some say, fuck it and let's just look at the shiny things inside the vault with no further intent. Yes, it is difficult.
  • simply another part of the way things are"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      I believe that one of the functions of theory is to reveal our cognitive blindspots. This they very much do while at the same time creating new blindspots that arise from the use of the 'tools' of the new theory. Any new system of knowledge exposes the assumptions of the the old system. For example, awareness meditation reveals the blindspot of categorization and differentiation, but the Buddha realized that say focusing on the breath is like pointing at the moon, just another step along the path toward no-mind. Mind and knowing is the problem.
  • Horton and Freire
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      I am profoundly happy to see Myles Horton cited and used. I think he has had more influence on my teaching and learning than any other. His autobiography The Long Haul is absolutely must-read for a rhizomatic pov.
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 14 Jan 14
       
      Myles Horton adapted Danish Grundtvig Folkehojskole to USA schools.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      Yes, he did and then used it at the Highlander School in Tennessee.
  • The expert translation of data into verified knowledge is the central process guiding traditional curriculum development.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      I am quite taken by the word 'translation' here. I think the metaphor of translation is central to rhizomatic learning as we are always connecting and sharing information that then gets translated into knowledge (actionable knowing).
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
       
      Experts are not to be trusted anymore, they work for big companies, their translation is skewed.
  • no community can live a healthy life if it is nourished only on such old marrowless truths.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      Brave words those--no community.
  • a negotiation (Farrell 2001)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      I wonder if this is similar to rhetoric and comp's idea of writing as a conversation?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      Interesting word, though: negotiation. It suggest an unfair balance at the start, right?
  • social contructivist and connectivist
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      These are dead links to the innovateonline site.
  • (Cormier 2008).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      Great question by Alec Couros in the comments: how do we get to a place where we are really and truly decentralized, and will this make the difference?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      I don't think the decentralized rhizome has reached a tipping point society wide, but perhaps we can play at the rhizomatic game for this short few weeks and see what it might mean to live in this world that may or may not be emerging.
  • Information is the foundation of knowledge.
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
       
      doubt if information really is the source of knowledge. Mostly it is, but the road from information, over statistics, logics, arguments is not that simple I think
  • If a given bit of information is recognized as useful to the community or proves itself able to do something, it can be counted as knowledge.
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
       
      again info is not easily translated into knowledge. Distrust and care are needed, even in a rhizomatic world.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      Or skepticism?
  • the prestige of a thousand-year history,
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
       
      all over this history the prestige has been attacked. Prestige and knowledge are to be separated, so many experts were proven false and wrong.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      It's a loaded term, for sure, because those who call themselves experts are often the ones in power, and with books and writers to back them up. Is the Internet changing this paradigm? Not yet. Not yet.
  • fluid, transitory conception of knowledge
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      I like this phrasing .. that knowledge is always in motion
  • rhizome.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      And here is it.
  • disciplines on the bleeding edge
  • The explosion of freely available sources of information has helped drive rapid expansion in the accessibility of the canon and in the range of knowledge available to learners.
  • Information is coming too fast for our traditional methods of expert verification to adapt.
  • In the rhizomatic model of learning, curriculum is not driven by predefined inputs from experts; it is constructed and negotiated in real time by the contributions of those engaged in the learning process.
  • The living curriculum of an active community is a map
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      The cartography of learning. I am always intrigued by how this plays out, if done successfully. Most of the curriculum mapping I have done ... I would not call them maps. They are just plot lines going nowhere, it often seems. But the idea of a map continues to intrigue me.
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 21 Jan 14
       
      I know D&G speak of a map as opposed to a tracing. I struggle with understanding this. The best I can come up with is the idea that a map gives possibilities for exploration, as opposed to a photo which declares what exists. This leaves me wondering about sites like Lino and Pinterest. Might they function as a map of one's exploration too, rather than just a collection of discoveries.
  • Knowledge seekers in cutting-edge fields are increasingly finding that ongoing appraisal of new developments is most effectively achieved through the participatory and negotiated experience of rhizomatic community engagement. Through involvement in multiple communities where new information is being assimilated and tested, educators can begin to apprehend the moving target that is knowledge in the modern learning environment.
  • we see as our goal the co-construction of those secret connections as a collaborative effort
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 18 Jan 14
       
      Is this what we are doing together here in Diigo, co-constructing secret connections collaboratively? Sounds like an underground conspiracy (forgive the lame joke there.)
  • Changing Knowledge
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 18 Jan 14
       
      Meta note here: I see our collaboration as a secret growing of knowledge among us. It may only even be true for us, on this web page, at this particular juncture because we are growing it out on the tip of the root of this text.
  • the conversion of information to knowledge
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 18 Jan 14
       
      Examples of this conversion in our work here? 1. Each of us runs these words through the filter of our own experience 2. sharing out on social networks 3 asking and answering quesions
  • members of several communities—acting as core members in some, carrying more weight and engaging more extensively in the discussion, while offering more casual contributions in others
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 21 Jan 14
       
      And some of us are still mainly consuming, jumping in with perhaps superficial content, practicing our engagement.
  • students had the opportunity to enter the community themselves and impact the shape of its curriculum
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 21 Jan 14
       
      Sharing power - deconstructing the tradtional power structures of the educational system. Did this recursion result in "watering down" the curriculum? From what I recall of Dave's story, the students put in extra effort instead. Like me, they had difficulty in knowing when to quit, the exploration was so rewarding.
  • if knowledge is to be negotiated socially
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 21 Jan 14
       
      Stephen Downes (http://www.downes.ca/post/61209 and elsewhere) argues against socially "constructed" knowledge, saying instead that knowledge is recognized. Cormier's "negotiated socially" fits nicely.
  • Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
     
    Let's play with group annotation here.
  • Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
     
    the expert is the power. No resistance is tolerated, because who knows better than the expert? But curriculum is not only made by experts, pressure groups do influence curriculum, hypes and politics do either. Here is the reason for cheating.
  • Cris Crissman on 20 Jan 14
     
    Recommended by Telli01 in Vialogues conversation https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/13001 as good intro to Dave's work on rhizomatic ed
Jaap Bosman

Self-assessment and self-remediation | Dave's Educational Blog - 0 views

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rhizome assessment rhizo14 independent scaffolding

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  • Overcoming isolation
  • Active learning
  • Controlling learning behaviours
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  • Diagnosis and remediation
  • Student responsibility for learning
  • Teaching students how to make good questions for themselves, to ask them in ways that are going to lead to effective searching and learning,
  • Jaap Bosman on 20 Jan 14
     
    So i'm basically trying to give people something they can work with… a strategy rather than content… that can get them 'in the know' so that they can participate in the community effectively.
Cris Crissman

Clay Shirky Comes Not to Praise Education, but to Bury It | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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shirky education higher ed

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  • Cris Crissman on 03 Feb 14
     
    Fascinating conversation on higher ed and how it may or may not be changing . . .
wayupnorth

we don't need no thought control: the deep grammar of schooling | the theoryblog - 0 views

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education

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  • a constant filtering that exhausts us
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 05 Feb 14
       
      Exhausting to be sure My filtering dilemma: To get a broad perspective I have to read more than I can budget timewise, but if I filter by Rheingold, Cormier, Downes etc, I get only that perspective.
  • desire for trusted channels
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 05 Feb 14
       
      It's not that difficult picking some channels (people?) and starting there. Those will connect to other channels one begins to trust. The rhizome grows and pretty soon one is back to overload.
  • those channels tend to be corporate or institutional hierarchies
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 05 Feb 14
       
      Lucky me who discovered MOOCs before our institution caught on to providing channels
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  • what would (or do) YOU do in a classroom full of people with devices
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 05 Feb 14
       
      I teach a small adult literacy class and provide connected devices for each of them. I encourage them to use social media, help them to create Google and Facebook accounts if they don't have one. At least they are reading and writing authentically if not gramatically. Yes, it is a distraction, especially when I think we need some whole-class activity. I have not found THE ANSWER to balancing power and independence. But we have some wonderfully illuninating moments. See my blogpost about my own serendipitous encounter with Pink Floyd http://www.wayupnorth.ca/blog/2013/01/14/something-weird/
  • without new ways to conceptualize the work of learning, we end up replicating top-down power and knowledge structures
  • filtering and prioritizing
  • We are skilled
  • but our culture is not giving us the meta-literacies to recognize and value and utilize those skills
  • wayupnorth on 05 Feb 14
     
    Bonnie Stewart on new ways of thinking about education
Jaap Bosman

No! You should not do DS106 | doublemirror - 0 views

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ds106 uncertainty mooc rhizomatic rhizo14

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  • What have you changed you mind about recently and why?
  • the greater the tension, the greater is the potential. Great energy springs from a correspondingly great tension of opposites
  • DS106 subscribes to what Cormier calls ‘community as curriculum’
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  • depending on one’s pedagogical position, one can argue about feasibility and validity of knowledge created within a community
  • Yes, it takes a particular kind of learner to engage with the mythology of DS106 and understand that the learning is in the engagement.
  • The psychology of creativity involves a great deal and as the new self appointed DS106 Headless Shrink I hope to bring some of that capability into the collective.
  • Some see this interactional pattern and have accused DS106 of being cult. I
  • [but] the vast majority of the rest of them will just keep blindly following one superprofessor messiah after another, thinking that they’re learning something important about life when in fact what they’re really doing is helping the enemies of higher education keep more people from ever becoming enlightened at all. ‘
  • Jaap Bosman on 28 Jan 14
     
    the real headless mooc
Cris Crissman

Experimental-Sites-Concept-Paper-FINAL.pdf - 1 views

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competency-based independent learning

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  • Cris Crissman on 23 Jan 14
     
    Competency-Based Education appeals to me because it seems easier for the teacher to be the facilitator/guide if not also responsible for the assessing/grading. Can it lead to independent learning?
  • Vanessa Vaile on 23 Jan 14
     
    It appeals to me too...I wonder why same person facilitating as assessing is rarely thought of as a conflict of interest. It's not impossible but can challenge impartiality
Jaap Bosman

A Nomad's Guide to Learning and Social Software - 0 views

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nomad guide

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  • Learning to be implies the application of knowledge in the development of skills that allows us to fulfill a particular (professional or non-professional) role in society. But to highlight the fact that being is not static, I’m using learning as becoming to signify an ongoing process. Learning, as constant becoming, is the work of nomads, to use another Deleuzian image explained below by Semetsky (2004):
  • Jaap Bosman on 01 Feb 14
     
    2005 article on Nomads
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