Category Archives: technology

Connectivism and the Evolution of Pedagogy

Posted on September 23, 2010 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaIn some recent postings on connectivism and constructivism (see links below), educators and researchers write as if these models are oppositions; as if constructivism is early Bolshevist and connectivism is free market socialism. Pedagogy does not come from … Continue reading →

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Just Another Cell in the Brain?: The Internet and Education

Posted on July 21, 2010 by geoffcain

Image via Wikipedia Recently, Robert Wright, journalist and author of various books including The Evolution of God and Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, penned an op-ed in the New York Times in which he contemplates the Internet in all … Continue reading →

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Stephen Fry on Technology and Change

Posted on March 5, 2010 by geoffcain

I have been checking out the BBC interviews on technology from the series called “The Virtual Revolution.” Stephen Fry talks about how the driving force behind all the technological change isn’t the technology but the inherent human will to connect. … Continue reading →

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On the Greatly Exaggerated Death of Culture

Posted on February 24, 2010 by geoffcain

I really thought Culture (I mean the exclusive education of privilege maintained by privilege) would have died years ago. Sven Birkerts and others have been predicting the death of The Book, Google is supposed be making us stupid, and instant … Continue reading →

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