This is rhetoric, perhaps even rhizorhetoric, at it’s best
Rhizomatic Learning: Cheating as Learning » Ralfe Poisson - 1 views
Ethics and soft boundaries between Facebook groups and other web services | ... - 0 views
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I want to frame my comments in the distinction between reductionist thought and complexity thought, a habit of mind I attribute to Edgar Morin’s book On Complexity
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tension between a reductionist understanding of power and a complexity understanding
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Reading Writing Responding: PLN, a Verb or a Noun? - 1 views
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+Alec Couros' simple suggestion made during an interview with the +Ed Tech Crew that everything can be a resource online.
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So often we limit ourselves by seeing PLN's as something made - contained and organised - rather than something continually evolving, changing growing and adapting.
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s I have suggested previously, PLN's often form themselves organically. PLN's are rhizomic. There is no central root system. There is only one connection leading to another.
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"everything can be a resource online. By approaching resources in this way, our understanding moves away from being an actual object, lets say a textbook, to a resource as being a way of seeing something. In this sense, a resource stops being a noun, something named, ordered and categorised, and instead becomes a verb, a way of approaching something, interpreting it, questioning it. In much the same way, PLNs can be thought of in much the same way. "
Rhizomatic learning, knowledge and books | Jenny Connected - 0 views
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don’t throw out your books
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Perhaps it is not the books themselves but the power we grant them just because they are books. There are lots of reasons why we did this: they were the best technology available for carrying information, they are the tools of power for status quo and revolutionary alike, they have are now the traditional, default method. Yet we are at the beginning of an age which has other methods that are even more ubiquitous. The mobile device is becoming preeminent because it not only carries words but also images, moving and static, and sounds, ours and others. It is immediate and easily reproducible.
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Are we going to ignore or throw away our books and so throw away our history? Doesn’t our past inform our present and future?
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Iain MacGilchrist’s book – The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
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Reader Response theory comes to mind here too. I see where this is both coming from and headed but my own attitude is, like anyone else's, still very much influenced by my personal reading history. I was an only child and, in a time when families moved much less than now, we moved often because of my father's work with a geophysical crew. I didn't spend entire school year in one place or even the same state until the 5th grade -- did not fall behind because my mother taught me to read early and my father made maths fun with cards, dice and dominoes. Add that all that up -- books spoke to me, were my family and friends. FYI Terry, my father was a storyteller and master punster
The Internet and Education - OpenMind - by Neil Selwyn - 0 views
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First, is the potential of the Internet to offer individual learners increased freedom from the physical limitations of the real world.
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Secondly, the Internet is seen to support a new culture of learning—i.e., learning that is based around bottom-up principles of collective exploration, play, and innovation rather than top-down individualized instruction
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Thirdly, the capacity of the Internet to support a mass connectivity between people and information is felt to have radically altered the relationship between individuals and knowledge.
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It remains for teachers to figure out how to leverage the opportunities of the internet for their learner's advantage. It is not enough to rely on the internet to "do it for you". The internet is still not a teaching machine. Best practice (Jim's version): teach content creation, collaboration, and reasonable dialogue - globally if possible.
The Essence of Peopling - 4 views
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“People”
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“peopling”
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The first part of this essay is an account of innermost peopling – the social, self-conscious nature of human cognition. The second part of this essay moves outward, connecting cognition to the rituals and social information flows that make up the most important parts of our environment.
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Blurring the Boundaries? New social media, new social research: Developing a network to... - 1 views
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Woodfield, Kandy and Morrell, Gareth and Metzler, Katie and Blank, Grant and Salmons, Janet and Finnegan, Jerome and Lucraft, Mithu (2013) Blurring the Boundaries? New social media, new social research: Developing a network to explore the issues faced by researchers negotiating the new research landscape of online social media platforms. NCRM Working Paper. "On a practical level, some of our network members were struggling with the constant stream of social media data, finding it difficult to keep pace with their participants as they moved on in their conversations and discussions. Digital overwhelm might become counter-productive to reflective social science if researchers are not skilled at managing data flows. Similarly, gathering massive datasets requires a computing power outside of the grasp of many independent researchers or students. The increasing emphasis on 'big data' runs the risk of access to datasets being increasingly concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority of researchers and organisations. An alternative perspective sees this as an opportunity for researchers to come together in creative, cross-disciplinary collaborations, Either way, social researchers will need to find ways of convincing those who own social media sites about the merits of extending, or at least continuing, some freely accessible datasets. The politics of social media research will become an increasingly important agenda for social scientists to engage with. Despite the strengths that social media offer in terms of providing an accessible platform for some marginalised groups, other hard-to-reach populations like the elderly, the poor and those with limited literacy remain more difficult to reach online." Page 12
The literature on CAE (Collaborative Autoethnography) Reflecting Allowed | Reflecting A... - 0 views
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collaborative autoethnography
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Mainly this article (Geist-Martin et al) and this book (Chang et al)
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plans to read this open access book on (non-collaborative) autoethnography
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