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• 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,

  
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• 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

  
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• 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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