George Siemens reflects on Sebastian Thrun’s decision of leaving Stanford University to start Udacity. “I have a long running question that influences my vision of education: If we were to design education today, without the legacy baggage of the existing system, what would it look like? I don’t have a clear answer, but I think […]
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Dave Winer – The disneyfication of tech
Dave Winer, always worth reading. “I still hope that there’s a remnant of the idealism of tech. That there was value in the personal-ness of PCs. The net is the same way. We need to make it always-easier for people to own and run their own infrastructure. People think it’s hard, but it doesn’t have […]
Cristina Costa – The need to unlearn
+Cristina Costa: The need to unlearn. “Unlearning for me means to look at things from another perspective or multiple angles. It also means to let those new ideas and practices challenge me. Unlearning is about doing things differently; to leave my assumptions at the door as I enter a new world. This is a skill […]
Mary Ann Reilly – Learner as knowmad
First post by +Mary Ann Reilly in a series of three. This Part I explores the notion of #knowmads proposed by +John Moravec; Part II will be about the teacher as time traveler and Part III about community as rhizome. I’ll be looking forward to those. Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Bold Schools: […]
Sarah Korones – Sweden’s first classroom-less school
Sarah Korones, SmartPlanet “Telefonplan, one of 30 schools from the Swedish education company Vittra, has done away with the concept of the classroom completely. Designed by architects at Rosan Bosch, the school consists of loosely designed “spaces” in which students can come and go.” Sweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet Desks, chalkboards and even […]
danah boyd on SOPA and piracy
danah boyd on SOPA and piracy. “Bills like SOPA aren’t really meant to curb piracy; they’re meant to limit Americans’ access to information flows in foreign countries by censoring what kinds of information can flow across American companies’ servers. Eeek. I can’t help but think back to a point that Larry Lessig makes in “Republic, […]
Tony Bates reviews Linda Harasim’s latest book
Tony Bates reviews Linda Harasim’s latest book. In a nutshell, “This book is essential reading for anyone teaching online, especially those with no background in educational theory.”, but it is worth reading the whole post. Book review: Learning Theory and Online Technologies Harasim, L. (2012) Learning Theory and Online Technologies New York/London: Routledge. Linda Harasim […]
Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments
“Most notably, the Facebook-Politico data set will include Facebook users’ private status messages and comments. ” Do these people understand the concept of “private”? Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments A partnership between Facebook and Politico announced today is one of the more far-reaching efforts to understand how social media users feel […]
Martin Weller on different levels of friction in sharing
Martin Weller on different levels of friction in sharing and on the value of curation. “I think we can see increasing levels of friction in sharing, and arguably, the value of the resource increases as more friction is added.” The Ed Techie: Levels of friction in sharing Over the past week or so I’ve had […]
Michele Martin on the importance of conversation
A great post by +Michele Martin on the importance of conversation. “Conversation is our human birth-right. It is what defines us and shapes us as humans. “Words create worlds” and we need to use our conversations to build a better place for us to live. ” A Conversation Manifesto I believe in the power of […]