Charles van der Haegen's List: Collaboration SMC Rheingold U

What is Enquiring Minds?
Enquiring Minds is...

a response to the challenges schools face in the task of preparing children for a future characterised by rapid social, technological and cultural change
a distinctive approach to teaching and learning that takes seriously the knowledge, ideas, interests and skills that students bring into schools
a set of principles to underpin relationships between adults and children in schools and classrooms, which see children taking increasing responsibility for determining the content and purpose of their learning
a set of print and digital tools to support teachers and school leaders to implement, adapt and explore Enquiring Minds approaches
a three-year programme of research testing these approaches, principles and resources in UK schools.

Enquiring Minds is not...

a new name for thinking skills or learning to learn approaches
a return to the child-centred permissive education of the 1970s
a special programme for gifted and talented or disaffected children.

"Enquiring Minds encourages pupils to develop skills whilst focusing on an area of their own interest and still developing subject knowledge. The approach is significant since it provides increased autonomy...Enquiry-based work is not a separate entity to other subject areas."
Teacher

"Most of the school curriculum is what we want them to learn, which is fine but it maybe doesn't tap into what they want to learn, or tap into their own interests, or things that they value as important."
Teacher

What age group uses Enquiring Minds?

Enquiring Minds has been developed and piloted with students in Key Stage 3 (aged 11-13). However, as it is an approach to teaching and learning, and not a syllabus or curriculum, it could be developed as an alternative approach at Key Stage 4 or with younger children.
Where does the National Curriculum fit in?

Enquiring Minds is a way of approaching teaching and learning that can be used as an alternative to the curriculum or as a way of ensuring that it is made more relevant to students' own contexts. It might be possible for teachers to approach their subjects through an enquiry approach. In this project, we have worked outside subjects and outside the curriculum in order to allow students to define the content of their learning.
What difference does it make in the classroom?

In an Enquiring Minds classroom, the teacher is no longer centre-stage: students and teachers work together as partners.

A typical Enquiring Minds teacher is:

able to research topics and make connections between ideas
interested in students' lives and cultures
keen to learn about how ideas and knowledge are produced in subjects other than their own.

A typical Enquiring Minds student is:

inquisitive about their everyday life
able to pose problems, ask questions and recognise issues they would like to explore
aware that there are multiple perspectives for understanding and analysing things
able to propose solutions to problems, and to suggest ways of pursuing those solution

"Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is a global development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.

Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions.

Moodle can be installed on any computer that can run PHP, and can support an SQL type database (for example MySQL). It can be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux (for example Red Hat or Debian GNU). There are many knowledgeable Moodle Partners to assist you, even host your Moodle site.

The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.

Come moodle with us!
See also

Teaching and Learning with Moodle - Entry point for educators, new and experienced. See what Moodle is, view and contribute real life examples of using various features, and follow useful links to resources and places you can share, seek help and connect with fellow educators using Moodle.
What does a teacher need to know? A good starting place to learn about the robust features in a Moodle course.
Moodle Demonstration Site. Here you can play on a Moodle site as a teacher, administrator or student.
The Moodle page at Wikipedia. MoodleDocs and Wikipedia both use MediaWiki.
Moodle page at Wikiversity
Moodle News at Infonary
Moodle_manuals has many links or there is the Using Moodle book for those who must have an Adobe document to read or print.
Here is where Moodlers share their "This is Moodle" presentations.
Moodlemoots are exciting Moodle conferences all over the world, with both face to face and virtual components.
Which course management software ? - Documents useful for decision makers
Each of the links below will take you to a different alphabetical index of topics, such as the Administrator index or Teacher index. "

"Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the Library of Congress presentation, it will be posted Jul16 videos of the work of Michaerl Wesch in Cultural Antropology classes on media litteracy..;

a fantastic and incredibly powerfiull showpiece on how education can become with at the same time hints on what to-morrow could look like..;
19th-ish.)

From Stephen's Lighthouse:
http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/07/michael_wesch_l.html"

"Many of you have probably seen Kansas State University prof Michael Wesch's thought-provoking video, "A
Vision of Students Today". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o.

Recently Dr. Wesch spoke at the University of Manitoba where he explained the the basis of this video in a talk entitled, "Michael Wesch and the Future of Education." I found it fascinating! He describes how he so naturally incorporates emerging technologies into his courses from the smallest seminar type class to the largest lecture theatre filled class.

More importantly he not only talks about the technologies but how he encourages extraordinary participation and collaboration from his students by engaging them in meaningful learning activities.

Although the video is 66 minutes long...pour a coffee, iced tea or glass of wine and enjoy this dynamic presentation from a master teacher."

http://umanitoba.ca/ist/production/streaming/podcast_wesch.html

Dubbed "the explainer" by popular geek publication Wired because of his viral YouTube video that summarizes Web 2.0 in under five minutes, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch brought his Web 2.0 wisdom to the University of Manitoba on June 17.

During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future.

"It's basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online," he explains. "We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn't."

connoisseurship critisism exploring reflection and learning
How do we work with others to deepen learning. What is the place of reflection and experience? Support page for chapter 4 of Informal Education
support
emancipating and enlarging experience
the nature of reflection
learning from experience
follow-up
elliot eisner- connoisseurship, criticism and the art of education

"Message from the Chair

The Department of Sociology at Brock University is committed to a critical, social justice approach. Faculty members research and teach about significant social issues such as animal rights, capitalist relations of production, educational equity, environmental activism, gang violence, gender conventions, globalization, hate crimes, professional wrestling, sexuality, racism and sweat shops. Our Department is the first university in Canada to offer a Concentration in the rapidly-growing field of Critical Animal Studies, examining the role and treatment of animals in human societies. Our Concentration in Critical Criminology pushes the boundaries of criminological thinking, examining law as social control and raising ideas about social harm. Our Concentration in Social Justice explores the constraints and opportunities of an increasingly complex world riven by war, environmental degradation, the growing gap between rich and poor and speciesism.

Courses enhance students' abilities to examine critically the social conventions and regulations that circumscribe our lives, and to explore possibilities for progressive social change. Students gain skills in designing social research, thinking critically, analyzing statistical data, computing, writing and making oral presentations. Our graduates move into a variety of fields, such as law, social work and teacher education, as well as pursuing further education in graduate school.
We welcome and encourage your interest in our department. Feel free to contact faculty individually or visit the department in person. Support staff and academic advisors are available to assist students in making a successful transition to university culture.

John Sorenson, Chair
Department of Sociology"

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""Increasingly I think the digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don't know how," says author Howard Rheingold, speaking in front of King's College at Cambridge University. "The ability to know has suddenly become the ability to search and the ability to sift" and discern.

Earlier in the week Howard gave the keynote address at Reboot Britain, and he recounts some of them here. Among the Essential Literacies he cites are:

• Attention
• Participation
• Collaboration
• Critical consumption (which includes "crap detection" -- we live in an age when you can get the answer to anything out of the air, but how do you know what to trust?)

The 6-minute video was captured on a Flip Ultra. "

"The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros' Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, parents, and students understand networked learning in the 21st century.

Anyone is free to use this video for educational purposes. You may download, translate, or use as part of another presentation. Please share."

Howard Rheingold's instructions about
Participation
Leadership
Personal Learning Journal - wikinotes
etc...

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11 different episodes from Howard Rheingold on Blip TV
Biz Stone visits Howard Rheingold's UCB Class
Diana Rhoten On The City As a Classroom
Howard sculpts alabaster
Howard Rheingold on early days of the WELL
Counterculture origins of cyberculture, Part 1: John Coate & The Farm
Craig Newmark at Stanford Digital Journalism class 1/29/08
The Martian Report, Episode Two: Extraterrestrial Anthropologist Investigates Solar Energy
[HowardRheingold] Visit show
Martian Report Episode One
Howard's Painting Cube
Celtic Lotus Green Woman 07/07/07 -- painting
Where the Use of Technology is Taking Us

"About this episode
TV-UN

Howard Rheingold, chronicler of how technology changes the way we live, work and play, prognosticates how business leaders and organizations will change to adapt to the new technological realities. He argues that leaders will need to have an interdisciplinary understanding of issues, look to the youth in the company for innovation and believe that it is okay to fail. “The organization wall will need to become a permeable membrane" and be "ambidextrous" to stay competitive. "

" AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean and Professor in the School of Information and professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006), explores how the "brain circulation" by immigrant engineers from Silicon Valley has transferred technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in China, India, Taiwan, and Israel.
Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PPIC, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College."

In 2005, Peter Kollock spoke about social dilemmas to the Stanford seminar on "A new literacy of cooperation" that was conducted by Andrea Saveri and Howard Rheingold.

Very interesting elaboration around Axelrod's 4 key ways to cultivate cooperation:
1. Don't be envious
2. Encourage durable and frequent interactions
3. Improve recognition and recall
4. Be generous

lessons ands summary in three quotes

The summary in three quotes;
"Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with" Milan Kundera
"There is a broadly perpetrated fiction in modern society... the fiction, is that society consists of a set of independent individuals" James S. Coleman
"If you are going to be selfish, be wisely selfish" H.H. Dalaï Lama

and a conclusion
"Ask yourself what you need to make this the kind of world you would like to live in. Demand that your teachers teach you that" Peter Kropotkin

One of the recommended tasks in preparing the Cooperation Theory class of Howard Rheingold is Robert Wright's ted talk : How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict.
This is the TED's description of the talk:
hllp://www.ted.com author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness," a game-theory term describing how players with linked fortunes tend to cooperate for mutual benefit. This dynamic has guided our biological and cultural evolution, he says -- but our unwillingness to understand one another, as in the clash between the Muslim world and the West, will lead to all of us losing the "game." Once we recognize that life is a non-zero-sum game, in which we all must cooperate to succeed, it will force us to see that moral progress -- a move toward empathy -- is our only hope.
Here follow some of my notes
Reasons to be cheerful:
• Growing lethality of Hatred
• Death spiral of negativity
Major round of moral progress is absolutely key....business class morality
• He is after the root causes of their hatred of Americans : understanding them will force us to a higher moral basis
• All the salvation (in the original meaning of saving the social organization) the world needs is the intelligent pursuit of self-interest in a disciplined and careful way

"Lisa Nielsen, best known as creator of The Innovative Educator blog, is an outspoken and passionate advocate of learning innovatively. She is frequently covered by local and national media for her views on "Thinking Outside the Ban" to harness the power of technology for learning. Ms. Nielsen speaks with audiences around the world sharing real-life anecdotes about the risk-taking actions she feels are necessary to do what is in the best interest of 21st century students despite the protests of educational administrators and policy makers stuck in the past. Passionate about educator voice and thinking outside the ban Ms. Nielsen blogs, promotes cell phone use for educators and students, and friends students on Facebook even though an outdated educational system tried to stop her from moving ahead. She has already seen her efforts begin to pay off as her district has taken baby steps in breaking free from the old way of doing things and is moving toward embracing innovation and recognizing that some of these ideas are not so bad after all.


Based in New York City, Lisa Nielsen has worked for more than a decade in various capacities helping schools and districts to educate in innovative ways that will prepare students for their future. In addition to her blog, Ms. Nielsen writes for Huffington Post, EdReformer, Tech & Learning, ISTE Connects, Leading & Learning, ASCD Edge and is the author of the soon- to-be-released book, “Teaching Generation Text.” "

The Downfall of Western Thought http://bit.ly/rtkclr

"You see, the truth is that Google really is trying not to make a huge deal out of Google+. That’s not because they don’t have high hopes for it. Or because they don’t think it’s any good. Instead, it’s because what they’re comfortable showing off right now is just step one of a much bigger picture. When I sat down with Gundotra and Horowitz last week, they made this point very clear. In their minds, Google+ is more than a social product, or even a social strategy, it’s an extension of Google itself. Hence, Google+."

transcript of my blog

Tim Wu author of Master Swtch, interviewed http://ow.ly/5G0ry . No doubt a must read book, and if you doubt, view this video. The one thing that bothers me in Tim Wu’s speech is his deep belief that the two things that will NOT change are economics and human nature … Food for thought, questions for deep dialogue and inquiry. I belief we can come up with solutions to these two “invariables”, who seem more “metaphores” or “myths” than inescapable fatalities. Should these deep beliefs remain however , inconsciously hidden in our minds, they might prevent us to look at things from other, more hopefull underlying beliefs systems. New ways of looking at things bring with them other possibilities for the future of the World. Let’s hope we can achieve a stage of mental capacity so that we allow a World to emerge without Wars all-over, without undignified living conditions for the majority of Humans, without unequality all-over even in so called advanced economies, without destruction of nature. Let’s aim instead on Freedom and Self-Determination for all, a belief in Homan endowment and possibility, a change in mental capacity, a return to conditions for our Systems Intelligenge to express itself. This might allow us all to raise our consciousness and to cooperate collectively to solving the intractable problems our ongoing mental models have created.