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: […]
I’m returning this morning from my week of digital darkness. Although not complete darkness, enough so that the time away allowed me to refocus on what is important in life. My wife and I played Gin Rummy last night. The first time we’ve played in a really long time…it was nice. I’ve been disconnected before. Usually when on vacation and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]