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teachnology
Ten Reasons Why
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Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Step-by-taxonomy Bill Brandon feels the same about step-by-step. One of the things that got dumped by IE was me harping on about people harping on about Bloom's taxonomy being a wastatime... Bill's a bit more constructive with it though, a good first critique. Bill, hope your dad gets better soon, must be hard. 3:03:03 PM    comments   trackback

Weblogs in formalized learning Jeremy Hiebert points to Seb & Seb talking about the difficulty of integrating blogs into formalized learning. Which is pretty relevant!!! ;O) Jeremy has some good things to say about commitment, writing something meaningful and the way in which some DBs work.. and others don't. Perhaps what interests me most though is the thoughts he has at the end of his post: "maybe it's just a matter of finding topics in the curriculum that kids could care about, giving them simple tools like blogs, and letting them express things in ways that are meaningful to them" As this resonates and resonates with the problem that blogs in formalized settings probably won't work... the whole network (see CoP post below) expression and exploration thing has potential in that it transforms, subverts and revolutionizes our traditional concepts of learning and teaching.. in this new context, where learners build their learning, where we 'facilitate' and don't 'teach' and where courses aren't assessment driven is where blogs will work. Try tacking blogging onto a standard, rote-esque course and it won't work. Look at your whole approach, reconsider the 'course' bit, think what you want from blogging and how that reflects what you want from your course and how you can get that... and things could really kick off. 2:48:27 PM    comments   trackback

Horses for courses (are my titles getting inane?) George asks us to humour him for a moment... more than happy to, especially with something this interesting! This entry basically says "Courses are artifacts of a learning model that is becoming obsolete" and could be replaced with Communities of Practice (CoPs)... 'a learning network' He concludes: "I sincerely believe that communities and networks are the future of learning. Course and programs will continue to face pressure to adapt…and institutions that fail to grasp this reality will be unable to continue to meet the needs of learners" And I, for one, agree. Ask long as we try to restrict / box up / package and produce courses as we have done learners are going to become increasingly frustrated and move away to other forms of learning or institutions that offer more open, constructive environments. Now I can already hear the "But my students just want to know the minimum, just want to be spoon fed" and, yeh, that's true a lot of the time... we've bred it and now we're perpetuating it. However, the net is disruptive, highly so, and with that comes a new understanding of learning and doing... and even moreso a new understanding of ourselves in every aspect of our lives... things are going to change and who wants to be left behind? 2:14:54 PM    comments   trackback

Nothing to do with the great civil rights leader, James Farmer, but here are some links that are:

Greensboro sit-ins
Reflections
Family (with pictures)


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