There is a lot going on with eLearning and Digital Cultures. First twitter, then the map, flikr, blogger, facebook and google. Exchanging papers about eLearning. Trying out new online tools. Writing, thinking, reading, creating, buying (yes, bought two books and two movies) communicating, sharing, helping, being helped, imagining.…
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Loading...Are you an information technology or computer science teacher who is really interested in your craft? Are you a truly reflective teacher? Do you look for opportunities to improve every day? Do you relish the chance to use a new tool to add interest and variety to your class?…
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After teaching online courses to Chinese students, from Calgary, AB Canada – it soon became apparent to me that the “content” in my course was not going to get me new students. The fact that all of my course content was getting copied was not lost on me.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Dave Cormier’s post A review of rhizomatic learning in Mendeley led me to an engaging conversation about definitions, especially a definition of rhizomatic learning. This is a topic that keeps returning to me, and I have not sufficiently worked through it, but I keep trying because I think it is important to the discussions about connectivism and rhizomatic learning.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Where are you at this time? Have you examined (the/your) past? And contemplated the implications. And pondered and revisited viable, fruitful future options…
So have I. After all. We live in interesting times [a Chinese curse, rather amusingly].
So spend the next four days musing deeply on those next big leaps (remember, you can’t cross a canyon in two leaps).…
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George Couros @gcouros July 20, 2012
Most Organizations Still Fear #socialmedia http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/~r/harvardbusiness/~3/fKiwvals_8c/most_organizations_still_fear.html …
This tweet is what moved me from being an observer on twitter to being ready to be an active participant.
The Harvard Business Review article could have been more appropriately titled “Mark Palmerston Still Fears Social Media” and would have summed up very visually how I have felt for many years about many aspects of social media; however the statement that most struck me is the sentence “Fearful, folly and flippant attitudes keep organizations from realizing the benefits of mass collaboration.”…
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Here are seven powerful quotes. Do you see the links?
…1. It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time — for we are bound by that — but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...Would be do-gooders in education have for decades preached the virtues of IT. These early advocates did such a great job of (over)selling the promise of information technology, that cynicism (at worst) and indifference (at best) now greets the next bright-eyed do-gooder.…
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