- The tools don’t get you the job – An argument that goes behind open source. Teach theory and the tools will find their own way. "Education is not meant to structure itself to the expectations of people seeking education." And "And maybe even sadder is that instead of teaching the students to be independent, to think about things in a different way, we educators are teaching people to fail. We are teaching up-and-comers that if something stands in your way, the correct response is to either throw money at it, and if you haven't got the money, then either get out or surrender, but do not under any circumstance deviate from the established course that the ads have proscribed" – (pedagogy ed_reform fedwiki opened opensource )
- The Un-education of a Technologist: From EDUPUNK to ds106 | bavatuesdays – By happenstance maybe? provides a gloss and commentary on the April 2015 EDUCAUSE Next-Generation LMS report for more of the same by re-awakening more of the different. – (DE edtech edcationaldesign lms PLE federation edupunk )
- The EDUCAUSE NGDLE and an API of One’s Own -e-Literate – A well-considered response to the EDUCAUSE paper on painting the LMS a new color. A federated and personal PLE would address the EDUCAUSE criteria for LEGO, while also opening the doors to alternative models of teaching and learning – like letting the student control her content. – (DE LMS PLE federation fedwiki edcationaldesign )
Tag: PLEs
- Sources and Methods #5: Mark Bernstein — Sources & Methods – Podcast interview – (notetaking tinderbox academic-workflow ple )
- Digital Tools for Academic Research – PPT at scribd – (sente wiki notetaking academic-workflow )
- In Pursuit of a Digital Academic Workflow: Putting Digital Reading, Annotating, and Citation Management to Work for Your Studies | Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative – an OV – (sente DevonThink notetaking academic-workflow ple )
- Digital Workflows for Grads – Productivity Tools for Graduate Students – Research Guides at Georgia Institute of Technology – Georgia Tech's one page index – (academic-workflow sente DevonThink notetaking )
- Introducing Digital Workflows for Academic Research on the Mac | Butler Library Blog – an OV – (sente DevonThink academic-workflow notetaking )
- Not-yetness: Examples | the red pincushion – – (ple complexity oer oe )
- Watters – Teaching Machines – A history of education as centered on its machinery – (oer e-learning edcationaldesign )
- The Internet doesn’t make you smarter; you only think it does – But the false confidence is not restricted to the internet – (fyc cognition psychology )
- Half an Hour: Design Elements in a Personal Learning Environment – the core design elements in the development of a personal learning architecture being developed in the National Research Council's Learning and Performance Support Systems program. – (ple design )
- Demystifying the muse: 5 creativity myths you need to stop believing – Crew Blog – of course, It's in businesses interest to demystify. you can't commodify the mysterious. So, out with the old myths, in with the new. – (writing inspiration ideology )
- Intertwingled Work – Greg Lloyd – An excellent post on intertwingledness in contexts. If pages/content are findable and addressable, they can be intertwingled – and it a matter of creating contexts that allow us to draw from that complexity to make meaning. Greg gives an apology for inline links, but, really, we don't need to apologize for that anymore. Let 'em eat cake. – (IA InfoDesign wikis intertwingled findability addressability )
- List of Physical Visualizations – Prime example of curation – open for additions and set up for remixing. Needs an astrolabe. "This page is a chronological list of physical visualizations and related artifacts, curated by Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen. Thanks to Fanny Chevalier and our other contributors. If you know of another interesting physical visualization, please submit one! Or post a general comment. – (dh curation data_visualization visualization )
- [toread] Some Idiosyncratic Reflections on Note-Taking in General and ConnectedText in Particular – "Looking back at my history of note-taking, I notice that there were two significant or radical changes in the way, in which I dealt with my notes or research information. The first had to do with the change from the analog to the digital ways of recording notes, thoughts, and ideas. I am sorry to say that this change led at first to a kind of disorientation and many false steps. I was searching for a new "paradigm" of keeping my research notes, but this search led to nothing–all I have from this time are Word files of papers I wrote. Notes, insofar as they exist at all, exist only on paper." – (notetaking wiki ple via:shannon_mattern )
- media archeology – a conversation – CTheory.net – The important stuff is always in the footnotes. "Media archaeology is an approach to media studies that has emerged over the last two decades. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, and Friedrich Kittler, but also diverges from all of these theorists to form a unique set of tools and practices. Media archaeology is not a school of thought or a specific technique, but is as an emerging attitude and cluster of tactics in contemporary media theory that is characterized by a desire to uncover and circulate repressed or neglected media approaches and technologies. Its handful of proponents — including Siegfried Zielinski, Wolfgang Ernst, Thomas Elsaesser, and Erkki Huhtamo — are primarily interested in mobilizing histories and devices that have been sidelined during the construction of totalizing histories of popular forms of communication, including the histories of film, television, and new media. The lost traces of media technologies are deemed important topics to be excavated and studied; "dead" media technologies and idiosyncratic developments reveal important themes, structures, and links in the history of communication that would normally be occluded by more obvious narratives. This includes tracing irregular developments and unconventional genealogies of present-day communication technologies, believing that the most interesting developments often happen in the neglected margins of histories or artifacts." – (dh theory media newmedia )
- Resource Management, Note-taking + Abstracting – Words in Space – note taking, template for note taking, software for note taking. – (notetaking theory reading research )
- Reading Effectively – Words in Space – advice and strategies for reading theory, and a framework for designing PLEs. – (dh litcrit pedagogy notetaking ple )
- Using IFTTT To Track Twitter Participation – ProfHacker – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education – – (diy )
- Modeling How Modernists Wrote the City – Mapping fictions across fictional cities. – (dh )
- digital learning spaces – an alternative to LMS. – – (lms ple )
- Digital Humanities Center (DHC) | Butler Library Blog – – (sente academic-workflow )
- Op-Ed: Microsoft layoff e-mail typifies inhuman corporate insensitivity – "There’s a name for this kind of uninformative spin-talk: it’s known as "ducking and fucking."" – (rhetoric corporaterhetoric fyc )
- Beyond institutions – personal learning in a networked world – In this presentation I look at the needs and demands of people seeking learning with the models and designs offered by traditional institutions, and in the spirit of reclaiming learning describe a new … – (DH PLE pedagogy DE )
- Mark Bernstein: LectureNotes – – (dh wiki wcw erhetoric )
- Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian Computing – a defense of artisan programming and computing. set of blog posts. – (dh software programming steampunk ple )
- Watters: Student Data is the New Oil: MOOCs, Metaphor, and Money – A direct connect to students on what's collected and who profits (spoiler: it's not the student). Added bonus, Why I Don't Use D2l Reason #11: "Degree Compass [data mining and analytics"Instead it uses predictive analytics techniques based on grade and enrollment data to rank courses according to factors that measure how well each course might help the student progress through their program."] was acquired by the learning management system Desire2Learn in early 2013 for an undisclosed amount of money." One for FYC and A&E to read. – (fyc a&e d2l education )