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Video clips from BBC on 2009-07-05
ACTFL National Standards for Foreign Language Education on 2009-07-05
Bloglines on 2008-09-16
Innovate: Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum on 2008-09-16
- This lack of a center of measurement for what is "true" or "right" makes the
  identification of key pieces of knowledge in any of these fields a precarious
  task. In less-traditional curricular domains then, knowledge creators are not
  accurately epitomized as traditional, formal, verified experts; rather,
  knowledge in these areas is created by a broad collection of knowers sharing in
  the construction and ongoing evolution of a given field. Knowledge becomes a
  negotiation (Farrell 2001).
- A rhizomatic plant has no center and no defined boundary; rather, it is made up
  of a number of semi-independent nodes, each of which is capable of growing and
  spreading on its own, bounded only by the limits of its habitat (Cormier 2008). In the
  rhizomatic view, knowledge can only be negotiated, and the contextual,
  collaborative learning experience shared by constructivist and connectivist
  pedagogies is a social as well as a personal knowledge-creation process with
  mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises. The rhizome metaphor, which
  represents a critical leap in coping with the loss of a canon against which to
  compare, judge, and value knowledge, may be particularly apt as a model for
  disciplines on the bleeding edge where the canon is fluid and knowledge is a
  moving target.
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- - The expert translation of data into verified knowledge is the central process
    guiding traditional curriculum development.
  - Changing Knowledge
  - The traditional method of expert translation of information to knowledge
    requires time: time for expertise to be brought to bear on new information, time
    for peer review and validation. In the current climate, however, that delay
    could make the knowledge itself outdated by the time it is verified (Evans and
    Hayes 2005; Meile 2005). In a field like educational technology, traditional
    research methods combined with a standard funding and publication cycle might
    cause a knowledge delay of several years. In the meantime, learners are left
    without a canonical source of accepted knowledge, forcing a reliance on new
    avenues for knowledge creation. For instance, a researcher exploring social
    software use must rely at least in part on online knowledge repositories because
    current information on the terminology used in these areas is simply not
    available in any exhaustive or definitive form in books or peer-reviewed
    articles (Nichol 2007). Information is coming too fast for our traditional
    methods of expert verification to adapt.
  - Wikis and similar tools offer a participatory medium that can allow for communal
    negotiation of knowledge.
  - "The most profound impact of the Internet, an impact that has yet to be fully
    realized, is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social
    learning" (18). Several communities on the Internet offer some idea of what can
    be accomplished in a participatory social learning environment where knowledge
    is being negotiated (Exhibit
    2).
  - However, if knowledge is to be negotiated socially, then the idea of individual
    intellectual property must be renegotiated to reflect the process of acquisition
    and the output constructed by that process. What is needed is a model of
    knowledge acquisition that accounts for socially constructed, negotiated
    knowledge. In such a model, the community is not the path to understanding or
    accessing the curriculum; rather, the community is the curriculum.
  - Maryanne Burgos on 2008-09-16
    
    How does this compare to Downes' notion of knowledge?
  - The role of the instructor in all of this is to provide an introduction to an
    existing professional community in which students may participate—to offer not
    just a window, but an entry point into an existing learning community.
  - Knowledge seekers in cutting-edge fields are increasingly finding that ongoing
    appraisal of new developments is most effectively achieved through the
    participatory and negotiated experience of rhizomatic community engagement.
    Through involvement in multiple communities where new information is being
    assimilated and tested, educators can begin to apprehend the moving target that
    is knowledge in the modern learning environment.
Half an Hour: What Connectivism Is on 2008-09-13
- In connectivism, a phrase like 'constructing meaning' makes no sense.
- Papert's advice on 'learning to learn'
Connectivism Blog on 2008-09-13
- Context.
- From whence does connectivism originate?
- 17 more annotations...
- - Vygotsky
  - Gibson's
  - Wittgenstein'
  - (Pea
  - Postman's
  - Lave and Wenger
  - Papert's
  - Bruner, Vygotsky
  - Bandura's
  - Stephen Downes' work on connective
    knowledge
  - Dave Cormier has been advancing the concept of rhizomatic
    knowledge and community as curriculum.
  - Churchlands, Papert & Minsky, McClelland & Rumelhart, Clark (embodied
    cognition), Spivey
  - McLuhan,
  - Connectivism is the application of network principles to define both knowledge
    and the process of learning. Knowledge is defined as a particular pattern of
    relationships and learning is defined as the creation of new connections and
    patterns as well as the ability to maneuver around existing networks/patterns.
  - Connectivism addresses the principles of learning at numerous levels -
    biological/neural, conceptual, and social/external. This is a key concept that
    I'll be writing about more during the online course. What I'm saying with
    connectivism (and I think Stephen would share this) is that the same structure
    of learning that creates neural connections can be found in how we link ideas
    and in how we connect to people and information sources. One scepter to rule
    them all.
  - Our knowledge resides in the connections we form - where to other people or to
    information sources such as databases. Additionally, technology plays a key role
    of 1) cognitive grunt work in creating and displaying patterns, 2) extending and
    enhancing our cognitive ability, 3) holding information in ready access form
    (for example, search engines, semantic structures, etc)
  - Connectivism finds its roots in the climate of abundance, rapid change, diverse
    information sources and perspectives, and the critical need to find a way to
    filter and make sense of the chaos.
Connectivism & Connective Knowledge on 2008-09-13
- Google Groups, Second Life sites
- Next week will help, if we can get away from the arguments debunking
  connectivism long enough to study the underlying precepts of connectionist
  knowledge. I have found myself running around in circles this week, trying to
  respond to criticisms while at the same time trying to explain these underlying
  concepts.
Another Hazardous Product Plunder: The $9 Billion Synthetic Air Freshener Industry on 2008-09-11
- But some of these products may compromise your family's health. In homes
  where air fresheners were used most days, babies less than 6 months old had 30
  percent more ear infections than those where air fresheners were used less than
  once a week, according to an extensive 1999 study by researchers at the
  University of Bristol in England. This study also reported that mothers suffered
  from 25 percent more headaches and 19 percent more depression in homes where
  aerosols and air fresheners were used frequently.
  
  Last May, University of California, Berkeley researchers reported that three
  of the four air fresheners they sampled contained substantial quantities of
  terpenes, chemicals that may react with ozone (also commonly found in indoor
  air) to produce a number of toxic compounds.
- Some air fresheners pose more of a risk than others. In August, after a study
  reported that air fresheners may contain the hazardous compound
  paradichlorobenzene, the S.C. Johnson company issued a press release pointing
  out that none of its Glade air fresheners or Oust air sanitizer products use
  that chemical.
  
  But the total chemical composition of most air fresheners remains a
  closely-guarded secret. The federal government's Household Products Database (www.householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov)
  does provide useful information, by product name, about some air fresheners. For
  instance, you will learn that aerosol air fresheners often contain the flammable
  propellants butane and propane. But many air fresheners do not list any specific
  ingredients, neither in the database nor on product labels or packaging.
- 2 more annotations...
- - If you want to add an appealing smell to your home, they suggest simmering
    cloves and cinnamon in water.
  - Because candles also send a variety of byproducts into the air, indoor-air
    quality expert Thad Godish from Indiana's Ball State University recommends
    against burning candles in your home more than a few times a week.
The fright begins as John McCain reveals his reckless side | Andrew Sullivan - Times Online on 2008-09-10
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  But McCain is in charge of a party that is now, at its core, religiously
  motivated. Joe Lieberman, for all his political talents, is Jewish, pro-choice
  on abortion, gay-inclusive, and domestically liberal. McCain faced an
  insurrection in his party base if he picked him. Without the evangelical base,
  he wasn't going to win
Connectivism Outline - LTCWiki on 2008-09-06