What is it about connectivism that stirs up such strong emotion? In my experience it has now been strongly attacked in public at least twice – the first during CCK08 by Catherine Fitzpatrick – who voiced her objections in no uncertain terms and more recently by Marielle Lange in Wikipedia. Perhaps the interesting thing about [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Attacks on connectivism
Posted in CCK08, Research, tagged Connectivism, downes, siemens, theory on February 25, 2011 | 59 Comments »
Tales from a reticent Elluminate presenter
Posted in Communities of practice, Networked Learning, tagged ELESIG, Elluminate, emergent learning on February 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
They say that the best way to learn is to teach – or if not teach then facilitate – or if not facilitate then engage, interact, participate and act. By act I mean ‘get in there and get your hands dirty’. I have now twice found myself in the position of leading an Elluminate online [...]
Emergent Learning Webinar – recording
Posted in Communities of practice, Networked Learning, tagged e-learning, ELESIG, emergent learning, learning, teaching on February 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I need more time to think about the outcomes of the webinar. We had a good turn out – about 30 people – and also lots of discussion in the chat. People were also very good about interacting and participating in the activities we had planned for the session. For now I’ll just thank everyone [...]
ELESIG Webinar starts 12.30 15th Feb
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Apologies to anyone who is thinking of attending this – but we have had to make a last minute change to the start time. The Webinar on Emergent Learning will now start at 12.30 – half an hour earlier and finishing at 1.45 pm. These times are GMT. You can find further details here – [...]
An Example of Emergent Learning
Posted in CCK11, tagged Connectivism, downes, emergent learning, learning, teaching on February 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The open connectivism courses that are run by Stephen Downes and George Siemens are rich with examples of emergent learning and whether or not intended, the design of these courses can promote emergent learning. The CCK11 Elluminate session on Friday last (4 th Feb – recording here) was an example of this. Stephen found himself [...]
Emergent Learning Webinar
Posted in CCK11, tagged Connectivism, ELESIG, emergent learning, IRRODL, learning on February 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Please note that this webinar will now start half an hour earlier at 12.30 pm GMT On Tuesday 15th February (1.00 pm – 2.30 pm GMT) I will be joining Roy Williams and Regina Karousou to run a lunchtime webinar for the ELESIG community about our paper ‘Emergent Learning and Learning Ecologies in Web 2.0′ [...]
Critical thinking
Posted in Critical Literacies, tagged "Jenny Moon", critical thinking, learning on February 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I attended a useful lunchtime session this week at the University of Lancaster (UK) on the subject of criticial thinking – how to introduce it to students and how to recognise it. The session was led by Jenny Moon, Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, Bournemouth University, UK, who is also very well known for [...]
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