Comments on: It’s not about Web 2.0 it’s about learning!

By: Brad Wenger

Brad Wenger — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:18:59 +0000

Jeff…great points about Connectivism! I am always looking for ways to encourage teachers in my building to have their students connect with each other and people around the world. You mentioned in your post about some projects and blogs that your fifth grade teachers are doing. Are those blogs public that I could see the types of ideas, thoughts, conversations that are taking place. I am looking for a way to encourage my fifth grade teachers, and this looks to be a good way to see real content in action. Thanks for your help and the posts!

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By: Gary Stager

Gary Stager — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:49:09 +0000

Here’s a link to an article I wrote after being on a panel discussion with Dr. Mitra in Delhi, India.

http://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=526

By: Bud Hunt

Bud Hunt — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:54:21 +0000

Thank you, Tom. I agree completely with your comment. How does one know if some idea or concept or tool is “new” if one does not know the history of what came before? Jeff, while I share your enthusiasm for these tools and strategies, I hardly think that any computer with an Internet connection is necessarily a connectivist tool. Mitra’s computer in the hole in the wall (here’s a link: http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2007/05/24/hole-in-the-wall-can-kids-learn-computer-literacy-by-themselves/) was more connectivist than many of the Internet machines I see that are linked to servers that spit out glorified Web-based worksheets.
Of course it’s about learning. Of course it’s about tools. But it’s also about knowing that none of human history or progress or knowledge comes from a vacuum.

By: Tom Hoffman

Tom Hoffman — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:20:57 +0000

Jeff,

If you make an argument based on novelty and change — “This is NEW!” — but you don’t understand the history of the subject, and indeed assert that understanding the history is not important, your argument has no foundation.

By: Miguel Guhlin

Miguel Guhlin — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:40:55 +0000

Jeff, I agree with your quote of Stephen’s comment. That statement alone was powerful, forget the other stuff. Of course, there was so much to process in that post and I appreciate you taking it on.

I’m waiting to write about those points later this weekend when I have time to reflect some more.

Best wishes,
Miguel