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Sally Field’s “You like me! Right now!” Oscar acceptance speech |
One of the most important aspects of being part of a peer to peer learning environment such as ds106 is engaging in the art of giving, receiving and eliciting critical feedback.
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Sally Field’s “You like me! Right now!” Oscar acceptance speech |
One of the most important aspects of being part of a peer to peer learning environment such as ds106 is engaging in the art of giving, receiving and eliciting critical feedback.
Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong – This is a classic text, describing how various societies transitioned form an oral tradition to a written tradition. Written largely before the Internet, it provides a wonderful foundation for thinking about literacy in the digital age.…
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Photo courtesy of Flickr user ::big daddy k:: |
This week, we are supposed to think about the power of metaphor in propagating a message of salvation or destruction about the future; what opening up education means to us, and the “Internet of Things”, when “the who” telling the story is not a “who”, but a thing that blogs, a blogject, and how its perspective circulates culture and carries ethical, social and political ramifications.
As I reflect upon some of my recent experiences in MOOCs (most recently #ETMOOC and #EDCMOOC) and online communities (especially my recent participation in #COOPLIT), I find myself thinking about the notion of digital collaboration and the pursuit of digital collaboration fluency.…
EDC MOOC, Week One Discussion Question for Inbox
Our facilitator, Jermey Knoxs asks: “We loved the quirkiness of this short film, and the original way it deals with contemporary social exchanges. How do you think it might suggest utopian or dystopian ideas about the nature of communication in a mediated world?…