stephen downes @ edmedia 062009

Complicated = you can get to it
Complex = you can’t get at it

Language logic learning = communication,

Learning about active engagement, not passive observation.

Thinking for yourself, free learning

Personal learning – increasing the connections in your brain.

Aggregate, remix, repurpose, feed forward. Tribute from downes to cogdog

PLE / VLE – are they dead? Scott Leslie http://www.downes.ca

Scott Wilson::: http://reload.ces.strath.ac.uk/plex

Economic advantage/roi – is sharing educational stuff equal to decorating your balcony?

People will share.

http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-connectivism-is.html

George seimans connectivism.

Goups vs. networks. Networks are open. Groups are closed.

www.w3.org/tr/widgets-land/

we are moving from website to widget based reality

browsers are webservers. The personal learinging environment becomes you manage you version of flicr,

it’s a mess, but it’s a neat mess

web, widgets, gadgets.

Plain Old web server. I hate passwords.

Personal learning center; valued different / network is connected and interactive, but not integrated. Small pieces loosely joined.

M. David Merrill @ EdMedia 062009

REAL WORLD TASKS.

“Show me!” 1,2,3x.
Students do not care what professor thinks but they do care what their fellow students think. Quality of work increased dramatically when invoking peer-to-peer review. MDMerrill #edmedia
ISD Instructional systems development
Who what how …
Who are your students?
What do you want to teach?
How do you want to teach it?

Get me the content first.
Reviewed details and generalities – used a letter to the kids as an example. Mom writes who/when news. Dad writes specific story of picture of the moose. Funny.
We teach formulas so they can plug and crank, but they don’t know what they’re doing. We need to show them an unusual result and have them find out why.
Course online – courses – suggestions by students: product / service/retail/restaurant/own
Based on reality but not all true.
Peer work more productive than competitive work.
When is the last time you wrote an essay? Why are you having your students write essays? M. D. Merrill #edmedia
On the fence . . . Merrill doesn’t believe students learn differently. @Downes says neural studies have shown . . .

CogDogBlog @ EdMedia 062009

One true media
Glogster. Go to educatior section
Oral history of route 66
Blabberize
Xtranormal
It’s not about the tools.
PowerPoint doesn’t kill presentations. People do.
Cool iris as a pres tool.
Voicethread
Slideshare
Talks about storyboard.Flikr to upload then upload to upload. You know what I mean.
Embedding – reusable media – is now cut and paste
Five card flickr story
Creative commons – on google now????
Tarheel reader
Cogdogroo.wikispaces.com.story
Googlemaps underused
One true media
Glogster.
Go to educator section
Oral history of route 66
Blabberize
Xtranormal
Message on his wiki site
Cogdogblog.com/stuff/50ways