As I’ve been reading the book Knowing Knowledge the concept that George Siemens presents of offloading content and information into the network is finding a place with me. I’ve been thinking about this for days now and how my netvibes page has become my network of information. No longer do I have to learn something just in case, but instead […]
So in about mid October I installed our own installation of Elgg. I did it for two reasons: 1. It integrated with Moodle which we already use. That way if a student had an account in Moodle already, they could us the same username and login to get started using Elgg. The two would be linked giving more flexibility for […]
You can find the other posts here and here. From the book Knowing Knowledge by George Siemens the things I’ve highlighted. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known. p. 31 Learning and knowing are constant, on going processes (not end states or products). p. 31 A constructivist view of learning, for example, suggests that we […]
First from Clarence and then from Will a link to this CNET article. What is so interesting is to see what it is in the article that sticks out to people. Clarence writes: He advocates many of the things that we often talk about in the edublogosphere in response to changes needed in education. Will writes: To me, this is […]
As my wife and I contemplate moving on this is one concern I have. While in Saudi I was on 28.8 dial up…on a good day. That is part of the reason I feel like last year was such an eye opener for me. Having pages that actually load is a concept I love….I really don’t want to end up […]
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 […]
OK so this may sound really stupid to a lot of you but…. What is the difference between us telling a student to use a fake name on their blog or on the web and a 13 year old pretending to be 18 on myspace? We teach them to be safe on the web, to hide their identity to basically […]
Friday was a half day at school. A little extended weekend for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Our High School took part in a couple different sessions. One of those sessions was by me giving a talk on “The Flat World”. I would have titled it “Your World” but the title doesn’t really matter. I had 20 minutes with every 9-12th grader […]
Last Friday my feedburner stats reported a 120 reader drop! What did I say?Seems like Bloglines is having some issues, or is it just me? I checked it myself and sure enough it’s not updating the feed since Friday. When I look at it through feedburner the new postings are there, so feedburner seems to be working. Anybody else experiencing […]
Via Andy Torris The first 1000 $100 laptops rolled off the factory lines here in Shanghai. What’s the chances that I can find this factory and take a tour? [tags]olpc, Shanghai[/tags] Technorati Tags: olpc, shanghai