One complaint I’ve always had about the edupunk and connected learning movements is how much darn work they require, which seems bound to leave a lot of people out or behind. Fundamentally, these successes aren’t shareable (go ahead, try and share your personal learning network with me), and so resist the kind of remixable refinement and elaboration that seems to be the engine of the age.…
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Loading...We are being often warned about free online services turning us into products. Thoughtful people have long since pointed out how crowdsourcing can mask an exploitation of free labor. The net result of our internet age may just be the latest case of siphoning off from the many for the benefit of the very few; it’s just that technology is making us so much better at doing so.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Reading the ‘A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age‘ shotgunned out today, my first thought fell prey to what someone has called the inverse of Godwin’s Law: invoking MLK to make a principled point.…
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