By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Alexander Hayes[Edit][Delete]: Auckland : FLNW On The Streets, September 23, 2006
I like this: "Whilst out and about on Auckland streets today I bumped into a Maori Elder busking so I thought I'd sit down and have a chat about whats happening with young people from his perspective. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: Brandon Hall Network, September 23, 2006
Brandon Hall has discovered social networking, and so naturally, has built a social network site that is, as they say, "Myspace.com meets LinkedIn." There is, the email advertisement said, currently no cost to join - but of course, there will be eventually. I guess we can expect special events available only to members advertised around the net. You may wonder why I didn't build something like this - I could easily have done so, and I certainly knew about this sort of approach several years ago. Simply: it's the wrong approach. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: Wikipedia:School and University Projects, Wikipedia [Edit][Delete] September 21, 2006
Useful page on Wikipedia that provides advice, examples and templates to assist in the use of Wikipedia in the classroom. "An advantage of this over regular homework is that the student is dealing with a real world situation, which is not only more educative but also makes it more interesting ("the world gets to see my work"), probably resulting in increased dedication. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Tim Grant[Edit][Delete]: Rendell Launches Program to Put Laptops in Classrooms, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [Edit][Delete] September 21, 2006
The governor of Pennsylvania is announcing "the start of a three-year, $200 million program to furnish high school classrooms with laptop computers and wireless Internet access." This is good, but there's something weird about the idea of "a laptop computer on every desk" - shouldn't laptops be associated with individual students. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. StevenB[Edit][Delete]: Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts, ACRLog [Edit][Delete] September 22, 2006
Hm. I'm feeling some of this at the moment. "... a lone dissenter is likely to fear voicing his or her opinion because with technology tools backlash can be magnified and distributed far more quickly. So even if there are some flaws in the post - a lone dissenter is unlikely to make that known for fear of instant backlash." I have been thinking today about the distinction between groups and networks. Groups require unity, networks require diversity. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Someone[Edit][Delete]: Conviviality and the FLNW (un) Conference, Artichoke [Edit][Delete] September 22, 2006
Yes. This is exactly what I am taking away from the New Zealand experience thus far: "What I came to think in the early hours of this morning is that one issue that is central to our imaginings about learning in a networked world, one issue that represents the weight of all that has been, is how we understand freedom. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Christopher D. Sessums[Edit][Delete]: Getting IT Right Socially: Reflections from ALT-C 2006, Christopher D. Sessums : Weblog [Edit][Delete] September 22, 2006
Here it is again. Is it just me? Or is it merely that I am just especially sensitive to it? "Is the locus of control of learning different given ICTs and social software and what should educators do? ... Social software, ICT, the Internet, education... it's all about people. Control should be a matter of choice". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: South Africa, Flickr [Edit][Delete] September 22, 2006
So today wraps up another week on the road, with an abbreviated newsletter this week, due to very poor internet access and to being in six hotels in six days. I am frankly chafing against the restrictions at the moment, as I am shuttled from place to place, with no knowledge of where I am going, no sense of where I have been, hustled about with no time to reflect or read or post, and placed in events where the discussion swirls about on issues and trends alien to my own sense of things. As I said to one person, this conference is on one track, I am on another. More on this later, when I get a few seconds to myself (though you can see the themes permeating my posts).
Anyhow, I have managed to squeeze enough internet access through the last week to upload several sets of photos (nowhere near enough time to title them or write descriptions, though). So here, for you to enjo, photos from: Frankfurt, Bloemfontein, Lesotho and Kruger National Park. [Tags: Newsletters, Flickr] [Comment] [Edit] [Delete] [Spam]. More...
Être celui que l'on osera jamais être peut nous en rapprocher comme nous permettre de passer à autre chose. Être beau, parfait, con, brutal, sexy, affreux, vieux, jeune, méchant, riche, pauvre, handicapé, marginal, conformiste, se multiplier, se cloner, se transformer en animal, en minéral, en insecte, en ce que l'on veut, peut libérer des idées et des charges et permettre d'intégrer d'autres points de vue et même développer de l’empathie. Plus...
Aujourd'hui on s'attend à un peu plus de variété et de souplesse. On peut être beaucoup de choses dans sa vie et même plusieurs à la fois, en changer et se tromper. Comment l'école, les professeurs, les parents et même les jeunes définissent-ils ce qu'est un «étudiant modèle ». Plus...
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