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 […]
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
I came home tonight looking forward to going through my aggregator and getting some other stuff online done. But I made the mistake of stopping by some of the online projects going on around the school. Needless to say my learning tonight came from a bunch of middle school students. I’ve spent the last two hours shaking my head. Why […]
It just so happens my pre-bedtime blog run coincides with Clarence Fisher’s pre-breakfast blog run, once in awhile we catch each other on Skype for a little around the world chat. About a week ago or so Clarence mentioned George Siemens’ new book Knowing Knowledge, which can be downloaded for free from the website. I downloaded it started reading is. […]
From Boing Boing: Meet a 92-year-old blogger Is 92-year-old Donald Crowdis (former host of the Candadian TV program The Nature of Things) the world’s oldest blogger? Even if he isn’t his blog is terrific. He’s funny and astute. Here’s an excerpt from a recent entry he wrote on cannibalism. Give his blog a read. If he can do it…why can’t […]