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1 juillet 2019

At the Risk of Disagreeing...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Dave Cormier[Edit][Delete]: At the Risk of Disagreeing With Jay Rosen..., June 29, 2006
Reacting to the Jay Rosen article linked here yesterday, Dave Cormier cautions that "there will be a rebuttall, and it will not be televised. It will be subtle. People will be bought out." Count on it. History is not inevitable. "If change is going to happen, everyone needs to be emancipated. Emancipation, in the sense of empowerement to publish, to have voice, to be able to control your destiny, is a very, very long way off. The revolution, if there is ever to be one, is going to take years of concerted effort." Quite right. It already has. More...

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1 juillet 2019

A Worthy Pass-Through in the Edu-Blogosphere

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Christian Long[Edit][Delete]: A Worthy Pass-Through in the Edu-Blogosphere, think:lab [Edit][Delete] June 29, 2006
More blogs that may be new to you. In this post, Christian Long points to Andrew Pass, who writes, The Current Events in Education. Also, Patric Dunn, who has recently launched Networked Learning Design, blogs at Occasional Rants. I would also like to highlight Digital Latchkey, by J. Ritchie Boyd, which was started as a consequence of an email dialoguie between the two of us. More...

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1 juillet 2019

Summer Listening and Viewing From UbuWeb

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Brian Lamb[Edit][Delete]: Summer Listening and Viewing From UbuWeb, Abject learning [Edit][Delete]Abject Learning [Edit][Delete] June 29, 2006
Some good stuff here. Sites like Ubuweb are what's great about the net. Brian Lamb picks up on the site's Glenn Gould CBC shows; what caught my eye was the link to FluxFilms compiled by George Maciunas. I went to a Fluxus exhibition in Copenhagen when I was there in the spring and actually put some photos and videos on my website. More...

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1 juillet 2019

bud.com

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Justin Hall[Edit][Delete]: bud.com, June 28, 2006
This is an interesting concept. "URLs with time and date stamps define a geography. The hypertext choices we make describe hours of our life. Using the Attention Trust Firefox browser extension, bud.com will collect the surfing trails of willing participants. By uploading their browser history, players will be setting the bud.com server to task, interpreting that data into their own networked reflection." It's interesting not so much because of the gaming aspect but because of the use of the browser extension to collect and interpret browsing data in a multiuser environment. Here's the single-player information architecture diagram. More...

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1 juillet 2019

Commission Report 6/22/06 Draft

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Commission on the Future of Higher Education[Edit][Delete]: Commission Report 6/22/06 Draft, U.S. Department of Education [Edit][Delete] June 28, 2006
Educators in the United States are up in arms over a draft report released by a federal higher education committee, but the report doesn't say anything we haven't been saying here for several years. "History is littered," it says, "with examples of industries that, at their peril, failed to respond to or even to notice changes in the world around them, from railroads to steel manufacturers. Without serious self-examination and reform, institutions of higher education risk falling into the same trap." Quite right. Moreover, higher education institutions are not accessible, the report says. And with costs that have outpaced inflation for decades, they are not affordable. More...

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1 juillet 2019

Constructivism vs. Connectivism

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. George Siemens[Edit][Delete]: Constructivism vs. Connectivism, Connectivism Blog [Edit][Delete] June 28, 2006
Post outlining some of the distinctions between connectivism and constructivism. One point needs considerable clarification. Siemens complains of constructivism, "The act of learning itself is still perceived to be in the head of the individual." As a commentator writes, "Where else would it happen?" And of course, that's where it happens. But what is learned by an individual is incomplete - it is as though the process of learning produces a key in our heads - the production occurs entirely in the head, but it still requires a lock and a door in order to be of use.
Siemens also observes, critically, that "constructivism is a 'sometimes' learning habit (we are always connecting, but we only construct in certain situations)... We don't always construct. We are often much more passive in our learning. We read an article and we link it to our existing understanding. We subscribe to a newsletter (or magazine)...we attend certain conferences...we dialogue with certain people/communities." I think this is right. It's as though constructivism postulates some specific intentional act, 'learning', which is fundamentally different from everything else we do (and which we would never do without help?). More...

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1 juillet 2019

The People Formerly Known as the Audience

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jay Rosen[Edit][Delete]: The People Formerly Known as the Audience, PressThink [Edit][Delete] June 28, 2006
If I wrote, "The People Formerly Known as Students," what would you say? How would you react if I said, "We graduate from wanting learning when we want it, to wanting it without the filler, to wanting learning to be way better than it is, to teaching and educatingg ourselves when it meets a need or sounds like fun." Well. More...

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1 juillet 2019

PeopleAggregator

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Marc Canter, et.al.[Edit][Delete]: PeopleAggregator, June 28, 2006
Marc Canter's PeopleAggregator site has now launched in an alpha version. On the one hand, it looks and feels just like another social networking application, and with a clunky and awkward interface. But on the other hand, the premise is that because it uses open APIs, it should be the first in a network of distributed social networks. This would be much more interesting. You need to be invited to get a look inside - but if you send me an email (please give me your first name, last name and email address, so I don't have to look them up) I'll send you an invite (no guarantees that the site is working, though the test invites I tried in the last couple days all worked). More...

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1 juillet 2019

Social Networking: Philosophy and Pedagogy

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Leonard Low, et.al.[Edit][Delete]: Social Networking: Philosophy and Pedagogy, EdNA Groups [Edit][Delete] June 27, 2006
A pretty good discussion on the EdNA Forums about Web 2.0 and e-learning 2.0 that is worth a look. Summarized as, "Leonard states - Web 2.0 sites are designed to be sources of content and functionality - facilitating the sharing, exchange and discovery of information, and the construction of networks of information and people. Leonard also uses the analogy (although it did not sound too flash) of hack in the back. Sean quoted 'Web2.0 is about empowerment, communication, collaboration, sharing, community, collective intelligence, collective action and openness. Ian also argued that Web2.0 is 'not so much about a change in technology, but rather, a change in philosophy' is also an interesting statement."
It is also instructive to observe this side discussion on the Teach and Learn Online group on Google Groups. More...

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1 juillet 2019

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mark Bernstein[Edit][Delete]: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web, A List Apart [Edit][Delete] June 27, 2006
Pretty good advice overall, though I do wonder about point number 8. Hm. I have been pointedly told I'm not (and not very nicely either). And the best I could do on Hotornot is 6.5 out of 10. But hey, that's better than 61 percent of all men! Yeah. Back to work, Stephen. More...

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