Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged Connectivism
Why Not take a risk?
Mar 19th
We can not expect teachers to take a risk and try something new if we ourselves are not willing to try something new.
I held a PD session for K-12 teachers after school today. It was one of 5 technology sessions we offered to teachers in what is known as TECH Wednesdays. Basically one Wednesday a month is set aside for tech PD. Today’s sessions included:
Blogging: (Brought 15 more teachers online)
Netvibes: Learn about Ginger and the new Universe function (Netvibes is the dominate RSS reader at our school)
Photoshop: Basic photo munipulation (resize, crop, rotate, etc)
Beginner Basics: For those who need just More >
Shift happened what’s the hook?
Nov 21st
I’ve been catching up on my RSS reader over the past couple of day. I’ve decided I need to prune the aggregator again and really focus in on some good solid learning that I need to do.
George Siemens’ connectivism blog is one that always makes my brain hurt. I’ve just tried reading four articles in a row and now I’m looking for the advil. George has a writing style that is so clear, so true that, for me at least, pulls me in and really makes me think about my own learning, my own beliefs and question what it is I’m trying to More >
Pedagogy defines School 2.0 (revisited)
Jul 13th
I was reading Will’s post today It’s Not Just the “Read/Write” Web and then thanks to twitter John Pederson’s post on Networks (I think that’s what it’s on anyway).
As I read I started thinking about a post I did back in January on defining School 2.0.
Not sure if it’s OK to quote yourself but back then I wrote:
School 2.0 although driven to change by the advancement of technology is not about technology, it’s about the advancement of society, of our culture as a world. Technology played a large part, but it is society that has changed. Everything from out-sourcing work to Asia, to More >
Knowing Knowledge Highlights 21-30
Nov 28th
OK, my second round of highlights from George Siemens’ new book Knowing Knowledge. You can find the first round here.
What skills and processes do we need to work with soft knowledge? We have spent our history with hard/codified knowledge as a product. We now need to learn to work with soft knowledge as a process.-p 22
We can no longer rely on categorization to meet our needs in a rapidly evolving, global knowledge climate. We must rely on network-formation and development of knowledge ecologies. We must become different people with different habits. -p 23
Learning is more than knowledge acquisition. Often it is More >
