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  • Time Constraints and Personal Limitations

    Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:07pm GMT
    This may be cheating slightly, but the last post was intended to make a point that I didn’t manage to get to, and that was a response to Jenny’s train of thought as expressed in “A 10 Minute Post.” In this post she discusses the following points: The issue of time constraints in connectivism and CCK08 Rapid interaction versus slow blogging, reflection and listening Their fundamental “meaning” for connectivism I’m a verbose writer. I have a great deal of trouble making a succinct point in 10

  • Blogging Exercise: The 10-Minute Post

    Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:07pm GMT
    Jenny Mackness has unknowingly thrown down the gauntlet on a blogging exercise I think is very worthwhile and will be trying here into the foreseeable future. The idea is that you take 10 minutes – and 10 minutes only – and devote it to writing a post. The context of this idea is a video clip available on YouTube that was referenced in a recently The Daily, circulated by Stephen Downes. Not having the clip right in front of me, I can’t be sure of the exact “rules” (if they can so be called) –

  • CCK08: learning lines

    Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:41am GMT
    (For students: Translation in Italian, please book yourself before beginning the translation) Yesterday in a classroom I was trying to explain the rationale of our courses and it happened to me to sketch some sort of learning lines. The sketches seemed to be of some use. Here you have a somewhat refined versions. In conventional classroom work, activities are time constrained. There is a tight schedule and a sort of photo finish with final ranking. Time constraining prepares the students for mo

  • The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On

    Posted: November 18th, 2008, 9:04am GMT
    Stephen Downes has released a very interesting paper titled "The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On". A must read for everyone interested in TEL. I also support Stephen's nomination for most influential blog post for 2008.

  • It's Elementary #26, CCK08

    Posted: November 17th, 2008, 4:07am GMT
    It's Elementary #26, CCK08 Submitted by coordinator2 on Mon, 2008-11-17 04:07. It's Elementary Alice Mercer cck08 Dave Cormier Jose Rodriguez Lisa Durff Maria Knee 46:10 minutes (10.57 MB) Have a listen as the It's Elementary Team discusses the Connectivsm Course facilitated by Stephen Downes and George Siemens with our Guests Bradley Shoebottom, [ http://bradleyshoebottom.wordpress.com/ ] and Wendy Drexler [ http://teachweb2.blogspot.com/ ]With Dave Comier coming in to join the conve

  • Is Resistance Futile?!? CCK08 - Paper 3

    Posted: November 17th, 2008, 4:06am GMT
    The inventor of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind. Josiah F. Bumstead Regarding the invention of the blackboard (The future of education is hard to predict) The road that lies ahead is fraught with hope and disaster. Speculating on future variables and consequences of the will be educational system is no simple task, and can only be measured a success by overcoming the inertia of the c

  • The Future of Learning: Ten Years On

    Posted: November 17th, 2008, 12:01am GMT
    Stephen Downes has written an important paper: The Future of Learning: Ten Years On. I need to spend more time reviewing the specifics of future learning, but after an initial read, Stephen has created a valuable document that should serve as a discussion piece for detailing the direction of our field. I suspect this document will be prominent in this week’s CCK08 dicussion on systemic change in education. I’d recommend Stephen arrange a few elluminate sessions in the near future to flesh out h

  • CCK08: assignment 3

    Posted: November 16th, 2008, 1:59pm GMT
    (Translation in Italian) Here you have another assignment for students of the Facoltà di Medicina (INF08) and students of Teorie della comunicazione (TCO08). The attribution for the two groups are just an indication, all of you can choose one of the variants or do both of them. Students of Teorie della comunicazione (TCO08) Last monday in classroom we tried to focus on what’s really new in the internet hype. Among other things, we talked about the open source movement and the openness, sharing,

  • CCK08: Power to the people?

    Posted: November 16th, 2008, 1:20pm GMT
    Many years ago I used to watch a pretty hopeless TV comedy called 'Citizen Smith' in which in Robert Lindsay played 'Wolfie' Smith, whose catch phrase was 'power to the people'. And I think that should be the catch phrase for connectivism.Attributes of connectivismSteven Downes (2008) in his post 'Networks, Power and Ethics' lists autonomy, diversity, openness and connectedness as attributes of a good network. Indeed, to me, connectivism is all about being able to identify one's own learning ne

  • CCK08: How connectivism changes my teaching practice

    Posted: November 16th, 2008, 10:35am GMT
    Over the last few weeks I have been running a short postgraduate course for midwives looking at reflective practice and ePortfolios. I have been focusing a lot of my energies on thinking about tools and technologies, and how I can encourage the students to interact with them. But have I been looking in the wrong direction? Should I not have been looking at myself, as a teacher, and my role in relation to connectivism?Not just contentThe first thing that has struck me is that teaching isn't just
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