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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Spring is on the way
It’s been a beautiful weekend. After so many weeks of rain, snow, sleet and drizzle it’s been sunny, though cold. As well as all the crocuses in the front lawn, today I noticed the first flowers peeping through in the … Continue reading
#onetree
This week Kim’s photo challenge is about trees. Despite D&G’s dislike of trees: We’re tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They’ve made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, … Continue reading
Scaffolding
I know that some folk dislike the term scaffolding. For example, in a recent post Sean Michael Morris explains why he didn’t attempt to scaffold #MoocMooc, and that started a healthy debate about the metaphor. [<a href=”//storify.com/NomadWarMachine/scaffolding-use-in-moocmooc-id” target=”_blank”>View the story “Scaffolding … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Jigsaw Technique, Learning, Online learning, Teaching
Tagged cooking, dissolvable stitches, parenting, pizza, scaffolding, stabilisers, Vygotsky
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When is an ism useful?
I responded to a tweet by Simon yesterday like this: @sensor63 @Jessifer @Bali_Maha @slamteacher I think the opposite of objectivity might be perspectivism #rhizo16 — Sarah Honeychurch (@NomadWarMachine) February 16, 2016 I did this basically to challenge the thought that … Continue reading
Where’s the pedagogy?
I love decorating my Christmas tree. Every year I buy more sparkly, shiny things and manage to cram them all onto my fairly small tree – much to N’s amazement and the cats’ delight. Some of the decorations are beautiful, … Continue reading
Posted in Online learning, Teaching, Technology
Tagged Christmas decorations, Christmas trees, course design, online learning, pedagogy
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Appreciative students
I had a lovely chat with some of my students last week. It was a usual level 1 philosophy seminar and I’d put them into groups of 2-3 to go through some Rousseau quotes together and decide what to make … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, University
Tagged jigsaw learning, peer interaction, peer learning
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Feb 14th Rhizopoem
Ginger’s a rhizome An iris is too Some irises are pink But this one is blue flickr photo by tanakawho shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license
When the student is ready …
There’s a saying that is (apparently) falsely attributed to Buddha, which says that: I was reminded of that during the latest #MoocMooc chat when Mark said that: @Jessifer@jasoncummings1@NomadWarMachine@yishaym@slamteacher Much f2f is about control / design online to lose control #moocmooc … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Learning, Online learning, Teaching
Tagged Buddha, learning, scaffolding, Vygotsky
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In defence of the VLE
It’s easy to bash the VLE (Virtual Learning Environment). I’m not going to pretend that it is a universal panacea for online or blended learning, but it is not as bad as some folk make out. I think it’s easy to forget just … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Learning, Online learning, Teaching, Technology
Tagged #moocmooc, Moodle, online learning, VLE
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