If We Care About Engagement Online…What Follows?

Garnering attention is really hard in today’s day and age. People are increasingly distracted by the varied media spaces that permeate our lives.
Consider this: 
Most people who multitask do so although it degrades their performance. The allure of competing medias simply make it harder and harder to focus.
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Worse Than Prom Photos: Old Digital Stories

In his awesome book Net Smart, Howard Rheingold quotes danah boyd regarding digital footprints, saying:

So what embarrasses me online is not just content I wrote foolishly but also content that I wrote with the intention of it being public and persistent.

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Uncertainty Can Be Wonderful

On Monday night, I had the opportunity to attend Dave Cormier’s webinar on Rhizomatic Learning. I’ve been to hundreds of webinars, and this one cracked my top 10. Seriously– it was that good. Go watch it right after you read this post.
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Reach Out and Touch Someone: Values in Connected Learning

Connecting learning. It differs in method, scope, direction, and format from traditional learning. In short, it values community over content. As I progress throughout my personal learning, I needed to identify and define each concept.
Here’s how I conceptualize each:


As we continue to learn together, how will you reach out and touch someone with your ideas?

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Making Learning Visible: Is the Value in Feedback?

Last night, in the first session of our #etmooc, we were encouraged to make our learning visible.

That idea sparked a few new questions that I intend to investigate throughout the course:

  • Is visible learning valuable because it increases the access to feedback?
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