Building a better rhizome
I just came back from the #cali2012 conference in sunny San Diego where i gave an admittedly rambling talk about the future of education as seen through the lens of open learning. I rerecorded the talk when i got home, and will post the video of the talk from San Diego when i comes available. … Continue reading “A dead-head sticker on a cadillac – the new open learning”
We’re reaching the end of the marathon that has been the change11 mooc. When looking back over the close to thirty weeks we’ve been in this so far… no. I’m not going to. We need to finish. And finish strong. Who’s with me? We’ve got some really excellent guest hosts left. We’ve got some really … Continue reading “The last five weeks of change11 – How do you live and learn online?”
For five years now i’m been trying to come up with a way of summarizing what Rhizomatic learning means to me. It is one thing to have a number of students trapped in a room, or tied to me by a grade, who are forced to listen to me for hours on end until they … Continue reading “Embracing Uncertainty and the strange problem of habituation”
A different top ten list For the past 6 years i’ve done a top ten list to finish off the year. As my interests have evolved and as my writing has changed, i’ve found it more difficult each year to try and pull together the list. This year I saw HackEducations http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/12/15/top-ed-tech-trends-of-2011-open/ post and thought… … Continue reading “Seven black swans for education in 2012”
I knew i wouldn’t get it done every night… but here is the second attempt at pulling together some threads of feedback and organizing them here for later. (see my intro post if you don’t know what i’m talking about) A metaphor too far Terry Anderson layed a pretty heavy critique on the session from … Continue reading “Rhizomatic learning – Response for day 2 and 3”
So I’m facilitating this week of discussion on some stuff i’ve been talking about… and people are talking back. This openness stuff is for the birds 😛 Wow. some kind of a day. I make no promises of being able to do this all this week… but i’m going to try. I know if i … Continue reading “Rhizomatic Learning – Responses for day 1.”
It’s my week at #change11. My topic? Rhizomatic Learning. Rhizomatic learning is a way of thinking about learning based on ideas described by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in a thousand plateaus. A rhizome, sometimes called a creeping rootstalk, is a stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots as it spreads. It … Continue reading “Rhizomatic Learning – Why we teach?”
We’ve had five speakers of change11 and i thought it might be a nice time to try and pull some reflections together and maybe offer a point of departure for someone taking the course a little late. I myself haven’t had the time to devote to the course that I’d hoped in the beginning, and … Continue reading “Change 11 – catching up”
Boring preamble I’ve been trying to think my way through the reasons why I’ve spent so much time in the last five years tracking down what i’ve called rhizomatic learning/rhizomatic education/rhizomatic thinking… I’ll be presenting in the #change11 mooc before long and am committed to putting together the week in such a way that those … Continue reading “Why teaching isn’t selling”
people used to make records as in a record of an event the event of people playing music in a room Fuel. Ani DiFranco I’ve recorded a little video tour of the ebook project planning page. It should give you a sense of what the project is about, and what you can do to participate … Continue reading “Ebook team for Change11 – the record of an event”
