A Sunday School Lesson:
The common attitude about Steve Jobs reflects the old view of agency, especially in business: that one person causes things to happen. Most of us so hope that is true, but the reality is that Apple was much more than Steve Jobs and that Jobs could not have done iPads without Apple and Apple could not have done them without Jobs.…
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Loading...If agency is the ability to recognize and respond to the surround, then does agency fit with connectivism? Yes. In fact, I can’t think of an educational theory that agency does not complement. Education is hardly understandable without some notion of agency on either the teacher’s part, the student’s part, or usually both parts.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...Another shameless Getty Villa plug: the Lion Attacking a Horse exhibition has just opened, featuring the eponymous statue on loan from the Capitoline Museum in Rome, and will be featured until 2/4, 2013. The video below details its installation in the Villa’s atrium.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Web is connection. It’s about how google, twitter, skype, text, facebook,webinar, podcasts, blog posts, skype, wiki and so on connects us. Thankfully, the list can, does and will go on and on. I’m grateful for my connectedness and how it … Continue reading …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We are asked, in MOOCMOOC, two questions, the one above, and “What does it do, and what does it not do.” 1000 words. One picture. Sounds a bit like DS106.
That’s 3 questions by my count. But no mind.
Laura Linney in The Big C, photo by SatinShirt
This assignment reminds me of a TV show (guilty pleasure) about a lady with cancer (I don’t pay attention to details much, so the name escapes me).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I have been planning a sort of big comeback (again!) with posts and new pages and topics, when on Thursday night I read the post I am re-posting below on Marisa’s blog.
I have been a great admirer or everything #ELTCHat: the dedication of the founders; the ever-growing number of participants; the fantastic summaries; the podcast; the amazing variety of topics, and the kind of conversations you wished you ‘d had with your colleagues at school.…
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I’ve half given up on open source, mostly because, as a vague left winger the balance between what is collective action and volunteering has become much more of a form of explicitly unpaid labour. The balance, moral, economical leads to issues of both maintaining the positivity of sharing skills to make code better, but in taking potentially paid labour from others affects wages, and job opportunities.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In an earlier post, I discussed intentionality in the rhizome in response to some comments and questions from Frances Bell. Her questions revealed some significant gaps in my thinking which I’m still trying to fill, but the article Rhetorical Agency as Emergent and Enacted (CCC 62:3, Feb 2011) by Marilyn M.…
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