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I just re-read a post I wrote in June, 2015, reflecting on a challenge posed by educator and author Cathy Davidson. Why Start with Pedagogy 4 Good Reasons, 4 Good SolutionsIf your goal is equality in a world where inequality is structural and violent and pervasive, you can at least
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One of the things that I love to unpack is the ability to see things through others' eyes. Doing it is really difficult. Trying to teach it, I think, requires a total commitment to opening up the learning space. No one person knows the answer; the answer emerges. Which
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In Why Start with Pedagogy 4 Good Reasons, 4 Good Solutions, Cathy Davidson writes: "If your goal is equality in a world where inequality is structural and violent and pervasive, you can at least start with your classroom as a place in which to model a better way...Be
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I am still reflecting on the experience of the #msloc430 working out loud week. Yes, this definitely was one of those let's-just-do-this-and-see-what-happens events. But I am beginning to see lessons. One lesson is - ignore the network. Or put another way: It's ok to chat up
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The topic for this past week in #rhizo14 was embracing uncertainty. A familiar topic in my work context. Kimberly Scott, the Director of the Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change (my professional home), openly tells graduate students to get used to playing in the ambiguity sandbox. We
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Note: I wrote this short blog post for the Jive Software community. It was subsequently picked by and republished by DZone. It's my thinking on whether there is in fact some connection between personal learning networks (PLNs) and social business. And very much relevant to an upcoming open,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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