Let me show you my personal learning environment –
The room is the size of a small theatre space. When I enter, there are several rostra, which I have placed intuitively, creating various levels. I can arrange these easily myself, and I do as I feel so inclined, before I can articulate my reasons in any [...]
My first week of intensive social software – Twitter, delicious (‘can’t remember where the full stops go), Second Life, Edublogs, Moodle, new websites, Connectivism course complete with bogged emails. All new. For someone who has an arts background, and is a self-confessed digital dyslexic (literally) that’s not bad. I’m telling all you geeks out there [...]
My understanding of student-centered learning rejoices in a process that starts from the student’s perspective. As that clever ad that is cited in David’s weblog suggests, one’s judgement of a given situation may vary according to perspective. Student-centred learning, as opposed to teacher-centred learning, empowers the learner. The term is possibly an extension of Carl [...]
I am overwhelmed by cck08 emails. This is “moogle”, I think. Yey. But then I opened one with a really interesting link:
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=550&action=synopsis
Using the analogy of rhyzomes, Dave Cormier’s article-
Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum -
is summarized as follows:
The pace of technological change has challenged historical notions of what counts as knowledge. Dave Cormier describes an alternative [...]
I launch into this as Eliza Doolittle into the drawing room of Henry Higgins. “I washed me face and hands before I come, I did”, but will I learn this language well enough to connect with the elite, digital society?
