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November 4, 2009
Connectivism Technology Web 2.0 Education Learning and Research
An Elluminate session (access Elluminate here) will be held on Wednesday 4th November 09 at 20h00 - 21h30 GMT (Time Conversion). The session is being hosted by CCK09 participants. Topic: How we can best describe networked learning in late 2009. This will be based on a presentation by Dave White's presentation on Visitors and Residents. More details and RSVP on Ning Site (registration required) on Connectivism Technology Web 2.0 Education Learning and Research.
Highlighted Resources
CCK09- Power and Authority
Francis Bell reflects on poower and authority, and in particular, some of the discussions that have characterized her interactions in the course. She writes, "This strikes me as an essentialist approach, this attempt to strip the discussion of context, to try to discuss the behaviours of networks that contain as some of their nodes the complex things that are human beings which have complex relationships with other (possibly complex) things and people in their networks."
Essentialism is, as characterized by Wikipedia, "the view that, for any specific kind of entity, there is a set of characteristics or properties all of which any entity of that kind must possess, and therefore all things can be precisely defined or described." However, as the article notes, "In social thought, essentialism as a metaphysical claim is often conflated with biological reductionism." This is what I (Stephen) think is happening here.
If you read Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge, and especially the section titled 'The Argument Against Cognitivism', where I identify numerous forms of context-sensitivity, you see I cannot be called an essentialist. But there is, to be sure, a tension between the idea that "it's all networks" and context-sensitivity.
Here's the resolution: the shape of any particular network will be affected by context, ineliminably. But (to my mind) we really don't get anywhere talking about the context of particular networks (no more than, say talking about particular sentences). You get lost and hopelessly drowned in the details, unless you take a step pack, and look for patterns in the behaviour of networks, as understood in terms of the underlying structure of networks.
See more from Francis Bell here - definitely worth the read.
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Contributions
Here's what course members from around the world had to say. Want to join the conversation? Submit your feed. Then put this at the beginning of your post: CCK09
CCK09 Use of ICTs – Australian Aboriginal LanguagesAwarbukari Cultural Resources Association is a not for profit organisation federally funded to assist in ways of utilising technology to assist in saving our 250 plus Indigenous Australian Languages. The National Pullima Forum in March, 2009 urged the use of ICT’s to keep ancient Indigenous Languages alive. The wrap-up included information on the nations around [...] November 4, 2009
Discussion Forum
These links are comments posted to the Moodle Discussion Forum, Week 8. If you want to participate in the discussion, but don't want to set up a blog, then you can post here.
Re: Opennessby roy williams.
Ken, I'm not sure I want to know what you had for lunch, but I do like to know what you were thinking at lunch time (an alternative "Witter", which asks: what are you thinking, anyone?)
See the conversation that Nicola sparked off in week 3, on writing to learn.
November 4, 2009Re: Openness
by Ken Anderson.
Hi Maijann. You raise some very interesting points. I have worried about my writings (blog and otherwise) somehow causing my professional career some attribution grief; consequently I often use pseudonyms/pen-names to express myself. These types of concerns do inhibit free-thinking/learning/discussion, I think. Perhaps the internet needs to be viewed in a different way, maybe as a playground, instead of being taken so serious by some....
November 4, 2009Re: Openness
by Alan Levine.
My favorite quote about this when I got Nancy White's story on video was that, "Openness is not a thing, its an attitude." It becomes part of your own personal operating system.
And we tend to focus on only one side of openness- the publishing/sharing part. There is another dimension of how we access, use, re-use, comment, give credit, feedback as users of open stuff.
Fear of Googled Past
by Alan Levine.
I blogged about this earlier this year, but after hearing/reading again and again (even suggested by our president) that we should post online with a wariness about what Google shall reveal about us in the future to some potential employer, publisher, etc. I always see a lot of head bobbing when this is said in public.
And of course this should apply when you are about to post some beer induced photo of you in mexico with farm animals, but in terms of the writing, we do? thoughts? ideas? software we try and create? artistic efforts? music?
The thing is-- if you turn this around-- it suggests we should create some false persona of ourselves online, aiming for some level of perfection, free of flaws.
And that seems wrong.
I for one have little interest in working for someone who will weigh some ranting blog post or college paper draft I wrote 10 years ago in the same light as the more relevant things I am doing now.
Am I just idealistic? Does the fear of being googled keep you, your colleagues, your students from being open? Unlike being pregnant, I guess you can be "sort of" open....
Re: Fear of Googled Past
by A One.
How the internet enables intimacy and openness?
by Sui Fai John Mak.
In this How the internet enables intimacy there were interesting points raised:
(a) tensions between people and institutions
(b) democratisation of intimacy
(c) changes in social habits and relationship
(d) team building
(e) social transformation
What are your views and stories?
November 4, 2009Re: Power to the People
by roy williams.
Asako, I am not sure that I understand "investing in the non-nodal". But let me try...
It strikes me that in a flat-earth utopia, we might envisage all the nodes on the same horizontal plane, even though some may be bigger than others.
0.From Latour' wonderful piece on Einstein (late 1970's), I derived the idea that power comes not from transparency, but from the way you are situated within it: how you are sited, therefore how you are sighted (you vantage point for surveillance - or Foucault's "gaze"), and consequently how you are cited
(depending on 're-spect' in two senses - recognition, and 'looking back').
1. I fear the reality is at least as complex as this, and that the topology and the fabric of networks is very uneven, and very high, with some nodes way down, and some nodes way up.
2. In fact many nodes in academic discussions (like CCK's) are part of a stratospheric layer which many people have little or no access to (openness notwithstanding).
3. So I see many different gradients between nodes and layers of nodes, and if you poke around, I'm sure you will find many virtual glass ceilings - that you think you can see through, but actually they distort and refract, and are more opaque than strikes the eye, and you often bump your head against them.
Re: Power and Authority in Education
by Maijann Ruby.
The Declaration on ICT for Development, sponsored by the World Federation of Engineering Associations, 11th September, 2009, Beijing includes the following:
"1) Millenium Development Goal, for remedying the unbalancing boat
2) Information Stage, New Stage of Human Society
3) ICT, Effective Tool for the Development in the New Age
4) Education, Key to the Use of ICT Tool
5) Responsibility for Governments and Citizens
6) Responsibility for International Organizations
7) Public Call".
In this regard, the role of educators/education is viewed as a key factor in the United Nation's 'Millenium Development Goal' of 'halving the world's poor population before 2015'.
Re: Connectivism and H1N1
by Leila Nachawati.
Hi Brenda. Some interesting thoughts on what you´re mentioning were raised here: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=2777
November 4, 2009Post in Twitter and use the hashtag #cck09 to be listed here. (These should be fresh. Still working on improving the Twitter display.)
Visitors and Residents Elluminate with details in OLDaily http://bit.ly/2JdxO8 All are welcomed #CCK09Just rammed my Visitors and Residents Prezi into a Power Point for tomorrows #CCK09 elluminate session.
@daveowhite sounds painful and regressive - need Flash integration in elluminate #CCK09
@edwebb It's the price I pay for being 'cutting edge' :) #CCK09
Role of "teachers" in "networks?" Adding complexity to the thought process by revisiting Nell Noddings info http://bit.ly/1U4dZH #cck09
@markgr Wow, we really _are_ all connected! Have not been able to do #CCK09 as much as I'd like but have learned a ton from the resources.
@NicolaAvery yes, thank you! now wondering if it's remotely possible to catch up with cck09!
Watching and listening to Amazing Stories of Openness for CCK09 http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09/ Lovely and inspiring
mmcisaac great @stoweboyd video http://tinyurl.com/yg3or67 from 140 character conference. Social business, shared time & space #CCK09
Tensions people/inst. Democratisation of intimacy http://bit.ly/2gVYVo #CCK09
What is symmetry? Symmetry is about motion http://bit.ly/1wncdR #CCK09
@ctscho @ctscho A humanistic approach towards education, caring for & about. In online & distance education, how far is it applicable?#CCK09
(roy) Learning: for visitors "its between me, the content and the expert" for residents: "Its creating a presence, and writing" #cck09
Learn from struggles in theory? http://bit.ly/W6Mag #CCK09
@CathyLAnderson thanks for noticing my blog post. I am trying to convince at a least a few staff members that I'm not crazy. :-) #cck09
CCK09 Educational and Business Leadership « Suifaijohnmak's Weblog http://bit.ly/4tPgyJ
@cogdog created the perfect resource for #CCK09 this week on Openness and Transparency: http://bit.ly/35LCGP (Thanks Alan!)
RT @gsiemens: @cogdog created the perfect resource for #CCK09 this week on Openness and Transparency: http://bit.ly/35LCGP
RT @gsiemens @cogdog created the perfect resource for #CCK09 this week on Openness and Transparency: http://bit.ly/35LCGP (Thanks Alan!)
RT: @gsiemens: @cogdog created the perfect resource for #CCK09 this week on Openness and Transparency: http://bit.ly/35LCGP (Thanks Alan!)
@gsiemens Not that @cogdog isn't a fav of mine, but an upcoming Spark http://bit.ly/2GJIbl #CCK09
Lessig on openness and transparency RT @tuchodi: An upcoming Spark http://bit.ly/2GJIbl #CCK09
Is there a difference between East & West? In West, ask a good question; in East, think & reflect on a good question or meditate Y/N #CCK09
Is there a difference between E&W? In West, to respond to a good question, in East, to think and reflect on a good response & meditate#CCK09
CCK09 About openness via questions and responses « Suifaijohnmak's ... http://cli.gs/m6tMJ
#cck09 - how "open" is something that can't be edited?
Learn from comments & conversation of fb,Youtube, twitter, reveal how human would treat each other openly-no reservation in open space#CCK09
Are there any research on how people treat people (good & bad) in open NETWORK based on "openness" principles? We learnt it too well?#CCK09
Just posted some reflections on last #CCK09 Elluminate http://bit.ly/OxNyQ
Updated my blog Personal Learning Environment #cck09 Connectivism ( http://bit.ly/3xy5RB )
@daveowhite We hope we could have a lot of sharing Nov 4 Wed 20:00 to 21:30 GMT Elluminate Session on Visitors and Residents #CCK09 See you
Teachers whose smiles remain http://bit.ly/re2Es #CCK09
My CCK09 PLE - Connectivism & Connective Knowledge 2009 and PLE - http://bit.ly/1eKWuq
I must be crazy, given how busy I am, but I just signed up for a course in Connectivism taught by the estimable #George_Siemens. #CCK09
starts to read #CCK09 blog posts and discussions. I am three weeks behind the schedule (sigh).
Reading Dutton's Fifth Estate. The internet as a (central) space. #CCK09 http://icio.us/rgqhu5
Updating myself on CCK09: Have been busy with other things lately and have not really been following the CCK09 .. http://bit.ly/2w8Bog
@doctorblogs 'subsumption' as in @gsiemens statement 'a collective is the subsumption of self' http://bit.ly/2KCV0A #CCK09
Nov 4 Wed 20:00 - 21:30 GMT Ellum CCK09 & all interested in connectivism invited to http://connectivismeducationlearning.ning.com #CCK09
@dean_jenkins thanks.. when identity of self gets subsumed into a group. [Hard going presentation! http://bit.ly/2KCV0A #CCK09 ]
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