Here’s a thought experiment. Let’s try to imagine a society (there were lots of them before modernity) where there is no interest in measuring educational success. Let’s imagine a society where the...
Category: Reimagining LearningMonth: July 2012
Professor Alec Couros: “The Connected Teacher”
One powerful benefit of networked learning is that when you find something interesting, it often leads to someone interesting – and that someone often leads to entire networks of interesting people. Or,...
Category: EdtechWeb Literacies: What is the ‘Web’ Anyway?
I’ve recently started in a new role for the Mozilla Foundation. At least half of my job there is to come up with a framework, a White Paper, around the concept of...
Category: LiteraciesDeclaration of Interdependence
We have massive research and many evidences available...[ie: Diane Ravitch is declaring a bunch of them here, we’ve gathered particular ones here]…that what we’re doing in the name of public education is...
Category: Reimagining LearningProgrammable Pedagogy: Reconfiguring the Future of Learning
What is "pedagogy" and what does it do? In the digital age, the future of education is being redefined in relation to new technologies and digital media, and we are having to...
Category: Reimagining LearningIn his essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?," Nicholas Carr relates an exchange between Nietzsche and one of his friends, in which the friend remarked that the philosopher's writing style had changed...
Category: Literacies
