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24 juin 2019

The Myth of Superman

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Neil Gaiman and Adam Rogers[Edit][Delete]: The Myth of Superman, Wired [Edit][Delete] May 25, 2006
Today's article in Wired tells a story about Superman. "His real-world origin is more humble: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish kids from Cleveland, created him as a character in a newspaper comic strip. But the strip didn't sell, so they reformatted it and flipped it to a publisher hungry to buy content for one of the first comic books... It's a classic American success story on a couple of levels. Two outsiders create a new art form, and Superman 'an alien in a strange land' takes off."
Wired is reiterating the myth. The reality, though, is more illustrative. The story of 'Superman' probably begins with Nietzsche's Ubermensch and the name is popularized in Shaw's Man and Superman. Canadians know that Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and moved to Cleveland as a child. More...

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24 juin 2019

Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom to Teach

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Catherine Ann Velasco[Edit][Delete]: Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom to Teach, Suburban Chicago News [Edit][Delete] May 25, 2006
More of the same. "The district is going to take away the student's education for exercising his freedom of speech," said attorney Carl Buck. "I feel like they are trying to control his freedom of speech. He is sitting at home on a computer on a Web site you can't access from school". More...

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24 juin 2019

Site Connects Users to Education Research

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Laura Ascione[Edit][Delete]: Site Connects Users to Education Research, ESchool News [Edit][Delete] May 25, 2006
Coverage of Rice's Connexions project. This is an odd article in that it describes Connexions as "an online library where colleagues can submit professional journal articles and review the work of their peers." This in contrast to the description at Connexions itself: "Our Content Commons contains small 'knowledge chunks' we call modules that connect into courses." The author seems to be more focused on an NCPEA project started in 2004, which did indeed produce articles and subject them to peer review; it now boasts eight articles scattered over the 19 subject 'domains'. More...

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24 juin 2019

Learning in Synch with Life: New Models, New Processes

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. George Siemens[Edit][Delete]: Learning in Synch with Life: New Models, New Processes, Complexive Systems [Edit][Delete] May 25, 2006
George Siemens has released a white paper created, as he says, "for Google's 2006 Training Summit." It's a nice breezy account of Connectivism, written in classic white paper style with many useful images and graphics. I am intrigued to note that it is copyrighted to "Complexive Systems Inc.," a consulting and reserach firm founded by Siemens. I will note that the last section of the paper ('Implementation') could have been dropped with no loss. Indeed, saying things like 'analysis before implementation can prevent costly errors' and 'develop the skills of learners' doesn't really advance anyone's understanding. More...

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24 juin 2019

[M]applications : Mobile Learning Inquisition

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Alexander Hayes[Edit][Delete]: [M]applications : Mobile Learning Inquisition, May 25, 2006
Sometimes the best conversations take a few months to gell. Like this one. Responding to January 4 post from Alec Hayes, Stephanie Rieger opines that we do not see student generated mobile content because "making mobile content right now is cost-prohibitive and available only to those with large budgets." That was in January (and Rieger's blog abrubtly stops there, sadly). This week, Hayes responded with an outburst against commercial MMS offerings ("Why should we be charged $0.50 per MMS message when collectively we can realise learning outcomes and engage our students with ease and authenticity?") and assertions that mobile content is within the reach of the average content creator. More...

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24 juin 2019

Pageflakes

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: Pageflakes, May 25, 2006
Another entry in the personal aggregator sweepstakes, this application again looks like the way an e-portfolio should look, more or less (I sent a bunch of suggestions to the designers). Meanwhile, Michael Feldstein says the same of another service called Tabblo. Meanwhile, as Seb reports in his latest newsletter, EDUCAUSE has a nice RSS aggregator. More...

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24 juin 2019

What Are the Changes in the Read-Write Web?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ewan McIntosh[Edit][Delete]: Will Richardson: What Are the Changes in the Read-Write Web?, edublogs [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
Good set of notes from what appears to have been a good talk summarizing what changes when Web 2.0 meets e-learning. For example: "We have to learn not to push information any more. We have to teach our students how to pull information that is relevant to them." And, "It's insane to make kids do their own work. Working together, finding and making connections, learning how to work in a collaborative world (because that's what's out there in the business world) is all that matters. More...

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24 juin 2019

The Power of Dialogue

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jay Cross[Edit][Delete]: The Power of Dialogue, Informal Learning [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
Jay Cross offers a post that stirs a variety of emotions in me as he examines the nature of authentic dialogue. "One individual brought up an aspect of dialogue, vulnerability. She wondered if naked wouldn't be a better term. Another said it was about showing one's real self. The apt term for me was authenticity. In retrospect, maybe the hip term for the honesty present in our discussion is transparency. Whatever it was, the dialoguers got out of their element, were no longer 'on,' suspended their egos, and acted as other-empowered human beings. More...

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24 juin 2019

eLIVE 2006... Live

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Will Richardson[Edit][Delete]: eLIVE 2006... Live, Weblogg-Ed [Edit][Delete]Weblogg-ed [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
Summary of a talk by Alan November at eLIVE 2006. Some interesting points, but I really think the point of view is skewed. Here's a quote: "What is the problem? The problem is not technology or teaching children technology. The problem is that India is ramping up in technology and education, online learning. China outstrips the US by the year 2050." These are not problems. These are enormous opportunities, not to mention a long overdue balancing of wealth and resources worldwide. More...

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24 juin 2019

The New Plagiarism

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jonathan Bailey[Edit][Delete]: The New Plagiarism, Plagiarism Today [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
At the best of times I am pretty sceptical about accustaions of plagiarism. In this case, where the author depicts a type of (what he considers to be) excess block quoting with attribution to be a new form of plagiarism, I am inclined to side with the numerous critics of the piece. To be sure, there are blogs of the type he describes in our field. But I have never detected any loss of readership or confusion about attribution as a consequence. More...

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