In her article What is Actor-Network Theory?, Farzana Dudhwala explores actor-network theory (ANT) in positive and negative ways: saying both what ANT does and, by contrast with traditional sociologists, what it does not do. She says that ANT practitioners differ from classical sociologists first in their concept of the social.…
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ANT via Dudhwala: #rhizo15
In her article What is Actor-Network Theory?, Farzana Dudhwala explores actor-network theory (ANT) in positive and negative ways: saying both what ANT does and, by contrast with traditional sociologists, what it does not do. She says that ANT practitioners differ from classical sociologists first in their concept of the social.…
Ethics for MOOCs: Power in Rhizo-MOOCs
Maha Bali just published a post Power that Remains When We Leave the Classroom that talks about the results of pulling the teacher and, thus, the teacher’s power from the classroom. She notes that this does not leave an absence of power and a group of equals.…
Ethics for MOOCs: Power in Rhizo-MOOCs
Maha Bali just published a post Power that Remains When We Leave the Classroom that talks about the results of pulling the teacher and, thus, the teacher’s power from the classroom. She notes that this does not leave an absence of power and a group of equals.…
#rhizo15: An Invasive Species?
In this week’s #rhizo15 question, Dave Cormier asks if rhizomatic learning is an invasive species.
No.…
#rhizo15: An Invasive Species?
In this week’s #rhizo15 question, Dave Cormier asks if rhizomatic learning is an invasive species.No.…
Content in #rhizo15
It’s Week 3 in #rhizo15, and Dave Cormier has asked us to consider content and its role in education. He says:
I’ve always been a little confused by the word ‘content.’ There is
something lonely and unconnected about the word somehow, when i hear it
used with reference to what happens in learning.…
Content in #rhizo15
It’s Week 3 in #rhizo15, and Dave Cormier has asked us to consider content and its role in education. He says:I’ve always been a little confused by the word ‘content.’ There is something lonely and unconnected about the word somehow, when i hear it used with reference to what happens in learning.…
Ethics for MOOCs: Imagination
I want to finish my series about rhizo-ethics before Dave Cormier posts another #rhizo15 challenge. We’ll see.
Woermann and Cilliers’ discussion of complex ethics in their article The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics (2012) insists that ethics in complex spaces requires a self-critical rationality and that this rationality is supported by four principles: provisionality, …
Ethics for MOOCs: Imagination
I want to finish my series about rhizo-ethics before Dave Cormier posts another #rhizo15 challenge. We’ll see.Woermann and Cilliers’ discussion of complex ethics in their article The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics (2012) insists that ethics in complex spaces requires a self-critical rationality and that this rationality is supported by four principles: provisionality, …