Free tech for teachers #plenk2010
This is a clear straightforward presentation on developing a network for learning. Jargon free and without pretense. #plenk2010
PLN made simple #plenk2010
Personal Learning Networks - the what, why and how from darren elliott on Vimeo.
Two things here The presentation comes via
21 Resources About Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)- Shelly Terrell on openzine. This is an interesting tool for sharing.
http://www.openzine.com/
Connectivisms secret; Oxytocin? #Penk2010
Presented for your consideration
EXPERIMENT No. 3 In Which I Learn to Love by Tweeting Madly"Zak greets me at his lab near the Claremont campus, a three-bedroom house being converted into a spacious new lab. To escape the hammering, yammering workers, he escorts me upstairs to a study where a nurse awaits. She compliments me on my veins and draws blood. Then she and Zak leave me alone. I pull up TweetDeck on my laptop and get to work. The question is simple: Will social networking increase my levels of oxytocin? Will my brain react to tweeting as it reacts to, say, a dinner conversation with good friends?" Read more Excerpt from Fast Company, Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has discovered, for the first time, that social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains. Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010: Final List #plenk2010
Twitter is number one this year. It would be interesting to classify the list in terms of formal vs informal as well as large and small scale tools.
A Plethora of Personal Learning Environment Distinctions #plenk2010
To paraphrase the Tao--The Tao that can be spoken of is not the Tao"
The vegetarian roots of connectivism? #plenk2010
Note the analogy of plant roots and the internet. A connectivist analog?
Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence
"Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence."
TEDGlobal 2010
Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind? #plenk2010
There two paragraphs from this NY Times article by Jaron Lanier sums up my attitude about "theorys" of learning.
"The deeper concern, for me, is the philosophy conveyed by a technological design. Some of the top digital designs of the moment, both in school and in the rest of life, embed the underlying message that we understand the brain and its workings. That is false. We don’t know how information is represented in the brain. We don’t know how reason is accomplished by neurons. There are somevaguely cool ideas floating around, and we might know a lot more about these things any moment now, but at this moment, we don’t.
You could spend all day reading literature about educational technology without being reminded that this frontier of ignorance lies before us. We are tempted by the demons of commercial and professional ambition to pretend we know more than we do. This hypnotic idea of omniscience could kill the magic of teaching, because of the intimacy with which we let computers guide our brains."
I prefer to think of the theories as metaphors for learning. Much in the samevein as Gareth Morgans work Images of Organization
What I was up to on week 4 in a word cloud #plenk2010
Ideals and Reality of Participating in a MOOC Implications for #plenk2010 ?
The Ideals and Reality of Participating in a MOOC on Prezi
This presentation by Jenny Mackness rang true to my subjective experience in #PLENK2010
Cyborg Anthropology: Implications for Learning and PLEs? #plenk2010
This is a fascinating presentation on humans and tools co-evolving one another. Interesting that she brings up Gregory Bateson and some of the early discussions on cybernetics. The later portion delves into augmented reality with a demonstration of situated notes. These would appear (in your mobile) when you are in the vicinity of the notes geo-location--personal learning on location. #plenk2010
