Schedule
Week of...
12th September 2010
A tour of PLEs and PLNs
19th September 2010
Contrasting PLEs with LMSs
26th September 2010
The neXt/eXtended Web
3rd October 2010
PLE/PLN and learning theories
10th October 2010
Evaluating Learning in PLE/Ns
17th October 2010
Using PLEs successfully
24th October 2010
PLE/N Tools
31st October 2010
Personal knowledge management
7th November 2010
PLE/Ns in the classroom
14th November 2010
Critical perspectives on PLE/PLN
Resources
Your Facilitators
George Siemens
Dave Cormier
Rita Kop
Networks of Dead People
Last week during our Friday discussion, Lisa brought up the concept of "networks of dead people". These are networks that include thinkers of the past - Wittgenstein, Plato, Einstein, Currie, and others. Ideas build on ideas of the past. Very few (if any) concepts arise in a vacuum. We can learn much by engaging with these networks of dead people (hmm, I think we need a different name - this one sounds too, I don't know, morbid?). As Lisa notes, "Contrary to the Pirates of the Caribbean mentality, dead men do tell tales. When I told a colleague, "what they said was: dead people don't answer email", his response was, "no, but they do answer questions"." Lisa Lane, , September 25, 2008. [Link] [Tags: none] [Previous][Next]
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