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Tag Archives: learning
Learning as Performance
Today I gave a presentation for the #SocMedHE20 conference, which was on the theme of “Using social media to build community, care and compassion” . It was a conference with a difference as it was all online – presenters were … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, DailyCreate, DS106, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, Social Media
Tagged #DS106, learning
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The Future of Learning
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” Dewey, Democracy and Education. I’ve been thinking a lot about resilience recently. Not as the ability … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Learning, University
Tagged #clmooc #ds106 #lthechat, #OpenBlog19, Dewey, education, learning, life long learning
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The peace of silence
There’s so much emphasis at the moment in active learning, often accompanied with the (implicit) belief that this needs to be a collaborative activity. I think both are important, and also enjoyable – but sometimes peace and solitude are just … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, Writing
Tagged #modigiwri, active learning, cooking, learning, peer interaction, silence, writing. Bacon
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Miscommunication
Random moments of misconnection: George, a Chinese UG, tells me how hard it is to study independently when there is so much he does not understand in lectures. He struggles to understand aurally and finds it hard to use lecture … Continue reading
Posted in HE, Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Teaching
Tagged #LTHEChat. #unboundeq, learning, networks, understanding
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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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Returning to learning
So this week Turnitin announced their automated marking service. My first reaction was to groan and wonder how long it would be before we were asked if we’d be supporting the service. Then Scott said something that made me think … Continue reading
Uncomfortable thoughts
A philosophical problem has the form: “I don’t know my way about”. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, § 123 Philosophy makes my head hurt. It’s hard, and it makes me think, and it challenges me to justify my inchoate beliefs when I just … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, Wittgenstein
Tagged discomfort, learning, Wittgenstein
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Lecture notes
I gave a workshop today about Flipping Classrooms which I’ll blog about on my other blog. At one point I paraphrased Eric Mazur saying something like this: College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ … Continue reading
