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15 May 07

Mobiles, Micro Content and Personal Learning Environment ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes

  • I personally think that community as such is vastly overrated - community (group) implies a sort of conformity with which I am not comfortable. But content is also vastly overrated, so Leinonen. What do I think should be emphasized? Choice. Control. Autonomy.

Dave'S Top 10 Musings On the Encouragement of Community in Multi-User Virtual Environments ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes

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    There should be shared or mutually supported goals," for example (why do people always insist on shared goals? meaning, of course, their own goals, that everyone should share).
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02 Apr 07

Why the Rich Get Richer

  • Networks often show power laws. They can be caused by the "rich get richer" effect, also known as "preferential attachment," where nodes gain new connections in proportion to how many they already have. That means some nodes end up with many more connections than others. The phenomenon is well known, but had been assumed to be just a fundamental property of networks.
30 Mar 07

The Blogosphere As an Artifact of Distributed Cognition ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes

  • while the author is showing how brains are different from computers, there is a flipside, which is, how computers could be the same as brains, but aren't, yet. Lots of room for invention. Like this, for example: "The brain uses content-addressable memory." What does that mean? The author says, "The end result is that your brain has a kind of 'built-in Google.'" Well, yeah. But: "memories are composed of linked sensory fragments -- odors, sights, sounds, and even body positions." So it's not content-addressing all the way down.
14 Jan 07

Collective Intelligence vs. Crowd Dumbness

  • it is differences that clarify, challenge, and expand our thinking. Groups, or crowds, can stifle thinking and creativity, while collective networks can facilitate learning.
  • It's the sharp edges, gaps, and differences in individual knowledge that make the wisdom of crowds work, yet the trendy (and misinterpreted) vision of Web 2.0 is just the opposite--get us all collborating and communicating and conversing all together as one big happy collborating, communicating, conversing thing until our individual differences become superficial.
12 Jan 07

University of Manitoba: Learning Technologies Centre

  • Connective knowledge is based on pattern recognition of emergent phenomena in networks. In order for a pattern to have any meaning, therefore, it must be recognized. This means that knowledge formation in a connective environment is a combination of two elements: the perception, which is the pattern to be recognized, and the perceiver, who does the recognizing. Knowledge, therefore, is not uniquely inherent in a network, but exists only insofar as it is recognized to exist. This talk will explore this argument and its implications on a theory of connective knowledge.
10 Jan 07

elearnspace: Thinning Walls

  • we need permeable learning spaces so we are able to check our own conceptions against those held by a broad community. Insular activity (whether thoughts in our heads or conversations with like-minded people) are deceptive. We can begin to think that we have touched truth and wisdom, when in reality, we have only touched similarity.
24 Nov 06

Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

  • (Oh - and a note for people who say there is no distinction between groups and networks: this was a network production, because each person wrote his or her own part autonomously; a group version of the same book would have all the authors collaboratively (and not independently) author the book as a whole).

Blogger Web Comments for Firefox

  • An awesome little plug-in for Firefox. Comment straight to you Blogger page from the webpage you are viewing. Someone needs to "open source" this one so it can post to a Wordpress blog. - mikeheth on 2006-11-14
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