Archive - Foundations
Personal learning networks should deepen our humanity. That's a half-baked idea, but I think it starts to get at something that has emerged in a few recent conversations I've had with a good friend. This all starts because personal learning networks (PLNs) and their impact within
Archive - Foundations
I've been thinking a good deal lately about personal learning networks (PLNs) and their relationship to organizational knowledge sharing and collaboration. Or maybe not so much thinking as observing. Observing the emergence of new PLNs. PLNs are the result of an individual being a connected and effective digital,
Archive - Foundations
I want to reflect on two aspects of #etmooc: The experience of it and also the questions I am left pondering as I transition to some post-etmooc state. I am happy that this is part of my visible digital self. But truthfully, I am writing this for myself. Some context
Archive - Foundations
This week's topic in #edcmooc is "reasserting the human" - a look at various responses to the apparent threat to humanity posed by the ever-increasing presence (intrusion?) of technology. It's an interesting setup; forcing a debate on what, in fact, does it mean to
Archive - Foundations
Sometimes I think the experience of learning is rather more like putting on your eyeglasses, or getting a new set of prescription lenses. You see things that you have seen all along but perhaps now a bit more clearly. Or with more definition. That certainly has been my experience during
Archive - Foundations
It has been 4+ weeks in #etmooc and 2+ for #edcmooc. This is a note to myself - a think aloud about participation. In the end, I am trying to discover balance. What mix of activities works for me best a digital, connected learner? And why? I find myself generally
Archive - Foundations
In listening to Dave Cormier's session yesterday afternoon on rhizomatic learning I was trying to pay attention to my self-talk - that conversation in my head. Which concepts were leading me to make connections to things I (think I) know, from my own experience? What idea keeps pulling
Archive - Foundations
I am going somewhere with this story - so stay with me a minute. I live in Evanston, Illinois - a city just north of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan. It's a pretty urban suburb. Lots of restaurants and shops. Home of Northwestern University (where I
Archive - Foundations
Note: This post was originally published on 25-Jan-2013. I will update it occasionally to reflect comments, themes, my thinking. And to share resources offered by others. Updates will be included at the end of this post. One of the most active discussion threads in my course in the Master'
Archive - Foundations
Twice each year I teach a course that depends a great deal on students thinking-out-loud in blog posts and various forms of online discussions. Most of this is conducted in a private community space we use specifically for the course but at times the conversations seeps out into Twitter or
Archive - Foundations
"Artefacts without participation do not carry their own meaning; and participation without artefacts is fleeting, unanchored and uncoordinated." - Etienne Wenger in “Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems: the Career of a Concept” in Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice, 2010. (Chris Blackmore, ed.). It is