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Powerful. Here’s the backstory.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how Twitter is not simply about sharing information – it’s much more about sharing our collective human experiences. When we read tweets, we read lives – or at least the parts that someone chooses to share.…
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Loading...In week 3 of the #TeachtheWeb MOOC, we were asked to find someone to collaborate with and create something together. The theme for the week was the open web and that was the inspiration for our collaborative work.
I loved the guiding blog post that was written for this week because it succinctly and accessibly covered some of the most important issues around openness: decentralization, transparency, hacakability, ownership/authorship, collaboration and remixed derivations.…
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We Participate, Therefore We Are. ~ Brown & Adler
This past week, I had the chance to delve deeper into the idea of open education and open education resources (OER) thanks to both #ETMOOC and the #MediaLabCourse.
Before this week, I hadn’t spent much time considering the differences between “open” and “free” and the power they can bring to people around the world when they are combined together.…
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Who owns our data?
Our School
Our school encourages in our daily work and curricula a continuous emphasis on digital citizenship and digital safety; we practice citizenship in our classrooms, virtual and in reality. This discussion and practice we hope will carry over into our students’ personal choices, online and and off.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In the #etmooc orientation session that I participated in, the notion of transparency came up. Transparency seems to me to be treated sometimes as intrinsically “good”. It often comes hand in hand with the notion of sharing. Sharing is a vital part of the cMOOC, however I would suggest that the way we share and the choices we make when we share can affect the value and meaning of sharing, and that indiscriminate sharing may actually devalue the act of sharing itself and what is shared.…
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I shall use this space to blog as part of my participation in etmooc. The name refers to the warning given by police in the US to supsects when making an arrest, the wording of which includes the phrase “You have the right to remain silent” and the warning that “anything you do so may be used against you in a court of law”.
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