-
Recent Posts
Simon Says: Educate!
Mastodon
Quote of the Moment…
Nodes in My Network
- Bryan Alexander
- Maha Bali
- Gardner Campbell
- Mike Caulfield
- Sahana Chattopadhyay
- Dave Cormier
- Robin DeRosa
- Ignatia Inge deWaard
- Stephen Downes
- Cable Green
- Jim Groom
- Rajiv Jhangiani
- David Kernohan
- Clint Lalonde
- D'Arcy Norman
- Howard Rheingold
- Jen Ross
- Bonnie Stewart
- Jill Walker-Rettenberg
- Audrey Watters
Archive
Tag Cloud
- Accessibility
- AI
- art
- assessment
- biology
- collaboration
- community
- Community college
- conceptmaps
- connectivism
- constructivism
- diversity
- ds106
- edtech
- education
- elearning
- English
- future
- Instructional Design
- instructionaldesign
- LMS
- mlearning
- MOOC
- networks
- OER
- Open education
- Open Educational Resource
- Open educational resources
- Open education resources
- Open source
- Open textbook
- Open textbooks
- opentextbooks
- pedagogy
- Public domain
- publishing
- Social media
- Social network
- teaching
- Tech Beat
- technology
- Textbook
- textbooks
- Time management
GBC Education Consulting
Creative Commons
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License by Geoffrey Cain. Please use – keep the conversation going!DS106 for Life!
The Countdown!
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Why Connectivism is a Learning Theory
Domains of major fields of physics (Photo credit: Wikipedia) David Wiley recently made a comment on his blog, in response to a very succinct posting by Stephen Downes, that the learning theory Connectivism, though he is sympathetic to it, was … Continue reading
Connectivism – The First 2000 Years
I would like to highly recommend a book I am currently reading to educators interested in Connectivism. It is called Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2000 Thousand Years by Tom Standage, the digital editor at the … Continue reading
Posted in connectivism, Instructional Design, twitter
Tagged Facebook, Republic of Letters, Silk Road, Tom Standage
Leave a comment
Scientific Discovery and the Creative Commons
Tim Spuck’s students discuss their search for T Tauri stars with renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson at the American Astronomical Society conference in January 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In a recent episode of Cosmos: a Spacetime Odyssey, Neil deGrasse Tyson … Continue reading
Posted in elearning, research
Tagged Neil deGrasse Tyson, Open-access journal, Scientific method
Leave a comment
Connectivism, Neuroscience, and Education
I have never been comfortable with proclamations by educators or scientists (and yes, there is a difference) about how the brain works. The logical fallacy goes something like this: “we have isolated a mechanism in the brain, learning takes place … Continue reading
Reports on the Death of the Book are Greatly Exaggerated
I was at a poetry reading at the library a while back and one of the poets had a poem about how lost in cyberspace everyone is and the implication was that he was seeing the end of print culture … Continue reading
