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Numeracy, Motivated Cognition, and Networked Learning
If you think general education will save the world — that a first-year course in economics, for example, will make students better judges of economic policy — think again. The finding that knowledge in...
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The Myth of the All-in-one
Occasionally (well, OK, more than occassionally) I’m asked why we can’t just get a single educational tech application that would have everything our students could need — blogging, wikis, messaging,...
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A Plan for a $10K Degree: A Response
A new proposal is out from Third Way, authored by Anya Kamenetz. It makes an argument for a radical restructuring of higher education in pursuit of a radically cheaper degree. I plan to write a few...
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Rediscovering (Semi-)Social Bookmarking
I joined Pinboard, the new, ad-free, pay-once-get-it-forever social bookmarking service a few months ago for an educational tech project I am working on. I’m not new to social-bookmarking — I’d been an...
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Short Notes on the Absence of Theory
Martin Weller, Stephen Downes, and Matt Crosslin have been kicking around the “post-theory” critique of MRI ’13 that came up in a discussion Jim Groom and I had Thursday night in the middle of a bar in...
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Why I Don’t Edit Wikis (And Why You Don’t Either, and What We Can Do About That)
Back in the heady days of 2008, I was tempted to edit a Wikipedia article. Tempted. Jim Groom had just released EDUPUNK to the world, and someone had put up a stub on Wikipedia for the term. Given I...
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Connexions News: New Editor, Big Announcement on March 31
I’ve become interesting in how forking content could help OER. The two big experiments in OER forking I know of come from WikiEducator and Connexions. (There may be others I’m forgetting; you can...
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Teaching the Distributed Flip [Slides & Small Rant]
Due to a moving-related injury I was sadly unable to attend ET4Online this year. Luckily my two co-presenters for the “Teaching the Distributed Flip” presentation carried the torch forward, showing...
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Gruber: “It’s all the Web”
Tim Owens pointed me to this excellent piece by John Gruber. Gruber has been portrayed in the past as a bit too in the Apple camp; but I don’t think anyone denies he’s one of the sharper commentators...
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Reclaim Hackathon
Kin and Audrey have already written up pretty extensive summaries about the Reclaim event in Los Angeles. I won’t add much. Everything was wonderful, and I hope I don’t upset people by choosing one...
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Blue Hampshire’s Death Spiral
Blue Hampshire, a political community I gave years of my life to, is in a death spiral. The front page is a ghost town. It’s so depressing, I won’t even link to it. It’s so depressing, that I haven’t...
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Convivial Tools and Connected Courses
Excellent, must-read post from the Terry Elliot in the Connected Courses conversation which pulls in ideas of Christopher Alexanders’ System A (the organic, generative) and System B (the industrial,...
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Twitter’s Gasoline
So Twitter is going to offer opt-in direct messaging from anyone. It looks like you’ll be able to check a box and anybody will be able to DM you, even if you you don’t follow them. Andy Baio gets it...
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Geeking out as a conversational paradigm
1993 After I graduated college I couldn’t find a job straight off, and I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I ended up staying home with my parents for a bit, in suburbia, and nearly losing my mind. The...
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Civix Releases New Online Media Literacy Videos
I worked with Civix, a Canadian non-profit, to do a series of videos showing students basic web techniques for source verification and contextualization. I had boiled it down to four scripts running...
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Stop Reacting and Start Doing the Process
Today’s error comes to you from a Tulsa NBC affiliate: Of course, this was all the rage on Twitter as well, with many smart people tweeting the USA Today story directly: It’s a good demonstration of...
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Some Preliminary Results On Cynicism and Online Information Literacy
We (AASCU’s Digital Polarization Initiative) have a large information literacy pilot going on at a dozen institutions right now using our materials. The point is to gain insight into how to improve...
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