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A few thoughts on Ecologies of Yearning by @gardnercampbell #etmooc
Some quotes from Gardner Campbell‘s Ecologies of Yearning talk at OpenEd12:
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are
…I was struck and deeply moved to think that I have seen, I have listened to students and colleagues who describe their own relationship with the institution we call Higher Education as one determined primarily by paranoia, hebephrenia or catatonia.
Finding and Building Community in #ETMOOC
Ben Wilkoff posted a great video blog called #ETMOOC Is Overwhelming. So, Let’s Make Some Meaning. It really resonated with me. Ben talks about the fact that MOOCs can be very overwhelming, and that to be successful you can’t read every tweet, blog post and Google+ comment. …
A more manageable MOOC (#etmooc)
I’ve followed Alec Couros as the massive open online course (MOOC) about educational technology. The course title #etmooc, which both identifies the hashtag for Twitter importance of connections to the MOOC. I briefly searched and found information about connectivism, a “learning theory for today’s learner.”…
The challenges with connectivist learning
Hi everyone,
I thought I would investigate “connectivism” further in preparation for this week’s topic. I found this paper by Rita Kop. She provides a good description of connectivism (perhaps others can indicate if this is a good definition because I am not an expert). …
Dear Natasa I admire your will and great enthusia…
Dear Natasa
I admire your will and great enthusiasm for constantly learning new things. I wish you the best of luck in achieving as many of your aims as possible. It will be interesting to follow your thoughts on the sessions you are attending, which sound like a lot of fun.…
Guide to Curriculum Innovation: Cultivating Synergy
At Lurks End…
It has only been a week of #etmooc and I can already tell a difference. A difference in how I will connect with people online in the future. I’d like to think of myself as technically savvy person and getting setup for something like was going to be a snap… not true. …
MOOCs for Language Learning?
I have been doing research about technology and Attention, but am by profession (and professor) an English teacher. Language learning has included a lot of parallel research to technology, psychology or psycholinguistics (think Nick Ellis on Frequency of Input, and Emergentism, and Learned Attention and language as a Complex Adaptive System.…
Introducing myself
I´m an Uruguayan biology teacher. But I´m also a mother (son =8 daughter=19 (yes it´s crazy)). Saying I´m a mother is saying I´m a learner. It´s a profession you really learn in progress. A clear example of complexity. Being a teacher is something like that.…