Learning in the Open: Networked Student Identities

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 10, 2013 at 8:20 pm
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This weekend, I gave a short presentation at a great little student conference hosted here at UPEI: Difficult Dialogues: Exploring Relationships Between Identities and Power.

(When I say “short” I mean I was still talking when the poor timekeeper started waving the STOP sign in front of my face: it’s been awhile since I tried to encapsulate ideas into fifteen minutes.)

I made a few quick alterations to the slides after the presentation thanks to the really good questions and conversation that emerged, and in hopes of making the ideas reasonably clear on Slideshare even without an audio track.…

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NASA hosts its first Google+ Hangout connecting with space station [nasa.gov]

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 9, 2013 at 10:19 pm
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NASA hosts its first Google+ Hangout connecting with space station– from nasa.gov

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WASHINGTON — NASA will host its first Google+ Hangout live with the International Space Station from 11 a.m. to noon EST, Friday, Feb. 22. This event will connect NASA’s social media followers with astronauts on the ground and living and working aboard the laboratory orbiting 240 miles above Earth.…

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A #SixWordStory About Real-Life Superheroes!

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 6, 2013 at 4:15 pm
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Okay, so I’m quickly discovering that this digital storytelling topic is going to be full of fun! I love to create, especially when it involves imagery and storytelling. Yesterday, I saw this tweet retweeted in my stream and thought it was the perfect inspiration for a new #sixwordstory.…

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Could this be a new purpose/goal within K-12, higher ed, and the training departments out there? [Christian]

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 6, 2013 at 3:41 pm
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From DSC:
First, what prompted the questions and reflections that are listed below? For that, I turn to some recent items that I ran across involving the use of robotics and whether that may or may not be affecting employment:

The work of Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee; for example their book Race Against the Machine

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But digital innovation has also changed how the economic pie is distributed, and here the news is not good for the median worker.…

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#etmooc as an Example of Connected—Rhizomatic—Learning

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 4, 2013 at 7:52 am
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If you’re discovering that your personal learning network is expanding wonderfully and unpredictably in an almost viny, plant-like manner, you’re already engaged in what Dave Cormier calls rhizomatic learning—a process of learning that mirrors the spreading of rhizomes so there is no center, just a wonderfully ever-expanding network of learning connections rooted in creation, collaboration, and the building of communities of learning.…

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MOOCed into Learning via #etmooc

an #etmooc participant blog post published on February 2, 2013 at 8:11 am
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I’ve been MOOCed. And it’s not as if I could have avoided it. I knew, as soon as I began exploring the topic of massive online open courses (MOOCs) in November 2012 with colleagues on the New Media Consortium (NMC) Advisory Board for the 2013 Higher Education Edition of the Horizon Report, that it would only be a matter of time before I stepped into the vortex and was completely immersed in learning more about the topic.…

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Responsive Learning

an #etmooc participant blog post published on January 30, 2013 at 2:23 am
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I am a Responsive Classroom teacher. Sometimes that gets the reputation of being “touchy-feely”. However, anyone who knows me would not describe me or my teaching that way. I have high expectations for student behavior and work that coincides with one of the core principles of RC: the social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.…

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