Recently, Maha Bali and Sarah Honeychurch held a Google Hangout with Dave Cormier as a follow-up to Rhizo14. Lots of people had sent in questions, and mostly the hangout was about Dave responding to the questions. Along the way, Dave gave a good answer to my question about a different way of defining anything, but defining courses in particular—defining from the inside-out rather than from the …
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Loading...I had a real snow crash this evening. Given that I was walking through a balmy twilight beneath an ultramarine south Florida sky, a snow crash was the last thing I expected, but there it was:
I have profoundly misunderstood cMOOCs.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Since the official end of Rhizo14, I’ve been spending much of my time grading papers and reading the precipitate from the cMOOC thunderstorm. The #rhizo14 garden is growing, meandering, carving new channels for itself—yes, mixing metaphors with wild abandon, and it is amazing to watch this happen.…
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re-re-blogged post with Deleuze terminology for #rhizo14
…Very cool chart by Justin Joque tracks key terminology in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateus…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Well, didn’t we have a party! I really enjoyed Rhizo14, and I thank everyone who joined in, especially the lurkers, who play a much unheralded role in the community as curriculum. I think they are the ones I most want to talk about.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In her post Questions about rhizomatic learning, Jenny Mackness ponders the arrangement of space in Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome. She quotes D and G: “Nomad space is ‘smooth’, or open-ended. One can rise up at any point and move to any other” and “A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo.”…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In her post Questions about rhizomatic learning, Jenny Mackness notes that I “have written that ‘the space holds all the possibilities’, which has made [her] wonder what possibilities the structure holds.” This play with the tensions between open and structured spaces is a conversation I picked up from Michel Serres’ book Genesis, his meditations about how form, or structure, emerges from chaos, …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve been conversing with Jenny Mackness for a few years now and have always found our conversations instructive and enjoyable, but never more so than now. As part of our engagement with Rhizo14, she wrote a post (Questions about rhizomatic learning) asking me a few questions about rhizomatic learning and thought.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve just listened to a TVO audio lecture by Don Tapscott, in which Tapscott “refutes the belief that the internet is turning today’s youth into ‘the dumbest generation'”. The 55 minute lecture is worth listening to in its entirety, but the relevant section for this discussion starts near the end at 41:18 where Tapscott recounts a meeting with the academic leaders at Florida State University …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The third challenge for #rhizo14 is almost over, and I’ve yet to say anything about embracing uncertainty. I’ve been thinking about it, but I also delivered a paper at the Southern Humanities Conference in Richmond, VA, this weekend, so I’ve had some distractions.…
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