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  • time and money are the two biggest factors governing participation. There is a high level of precarity in society currently and many people are just trying to survive, leaving little time left over for anything else

• for: vita activa, new forms of political participation

• for: energy transition without willing participation from the fossil fuel industry

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  • What data does the IEA base this claim on?

Dante’s text ‘riguarda’, ‘has to do with’, Levi and Pikolo. ‘Considerate la vostra semenza: | Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, | Ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza.’ What I would emphasise is that by remembering and translating and discussing Dante, Levi and Pikolo live out that terzina from Inferno 26, or rather, they live out a new version of the terzina. That action - ‘ragionare di queste cose con le stanghe della zuppa sulle spalle’ - is a particular living out of Ulysses’ words. For Levi and Pikolo here, discussing Dante becomes a way of seeking after ‘virtute e conoscenza’, and of going beyond the camp’s Pillars of Hercules; ‘è scagliare se stessi al di là di una barriera’, as Levi writes earlier in the chapter. Yet while Dante’s Ulysses casts aside bonds of friendship and affection - seeing the ‘piéta | del vecchio padre’, the ‘debito amore | lo qual dovea Penelope far lieta’ as obstacles to his pursuit of ‘virtute e conoscenza’ - Levi and Pikolo seek after knowledge through conversation, through attention to each other. In the chapter Pikolo listens, he pays attention, he suggests possible translations, he reassures Levi. Interpreting Inferno 26 - ‘ragionare di queste cose’ - is a joint endeavour (Gordon 2001, 68-70; Insana 2009, 107-10; Montemaggi 2020, 127-42), an endeavour in which Levi and Pikolo pursue virtue and knowledge, but do so in a mode quite different to Ulysses (Montemaggi 2020, 133-35; Montemaggi 2011, 66-67, 71-72).

What seems to matter particularly in this passage is that Pikolo and Levi realise that Dante’s is a text about them. ‘[F]orse […] ha ricevuto il messaggio, ha sentito che lo riguarda, che riguarda tutti gli uomini in travaglio, e noi in specie; e che riguarda noi due’ (emphasis added). The ‘messaggio’ arising from Levi and Pikolo’s joint interpretation of Dante is not only a fuller understanding of the ideas Dante is expressing, important as that is, nor is the message limited to assessing the truthfulness of Dante’s words, important as that is too. But - and perhaps underpinning both of these - the ‘messaggio’ also involves recognising that Dante’s words speak about and to Levi and Pikolo. The repeated ‘riguarda’ casts the terzina as not just concerning humanity as a general, abstract category, but as concerning specific, particular lives: Pikolo’s and Levi’s. In the movement from Pikolo (‘lo riguarda’) outward to all those in travail and then narrowing inward to those in the camps (‘noi’) and then inward again to Pikolo and Levi (‘noi due’), the ‘riguarda’ also cast the terzina as open to be encountered in an equally personal light by others.

At least here, the value of the Commedia seems ultimately to lie not in the particular elaboration that Dante offers of various worldviews, but in how the text becomes part of a reader’s lived experience. The two are, however, connected, and one of the questions arising from this chapter is: How? Levi tells us that Dante’s words - in and through the context of Levi’s encounter with them in Auschwitz - revealed to him, ‘perhaps’, ‘forse’, ‘il perché del nostro destino, del nostro essere oggi qui’. A question perhaps worth investigating further would be: How might moving towards fuller understanding of the Commedia and particular lived experiences of Dante’s text inform each other?

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Paying for participation | Open Thinkering by Doug Belshaw

The answer shouldn't necessarily be to figure out how to quantify the online unseen portions of the learning process.

Similarly how might one assess the end results of things which are non-literate?

Merci pour cette référence !

Finally, teachers’, principals’ and students’ engagement and well-being during the pandemic

https://tracydurnell.com/2021/09/26/getting-more-women-involved-in-the-indieweb/

Some great questions here and it's a difficult problem.

My personal solution is to do my best to provide personal invitations to people I think would enjoy participating and then trying to provide some space and support for them once they've arrived.

I do remember a self-named DrupalChix group of women around 2008 who banded together and created their own space within the Drupal community. Their leadership from within certainly helped to dramatically move the needle within Southern California. (cross reference: https://groups.drupal.org/women-drupal)

Eternal struggle of competition here. The workers (and the poet) admonish that one compares themselves against their neighbors (competitors) than simply themselves.

The fix for this is for the leadership/bosses to participate themselves to see if the yield isn't as good as it might otherwise be. So much could be fixed if the "boss" is involved in the actual work or physically on site at least some of the time to experience what is going on. Participation counts.

Giving peers permission to engage in dialogue about race and holding a lofty expectation that they will stay engaged in these conversations throughout the semester or year is the first of the four agreements for courageous conversation. While initially, some participants may be eager to enter into these conversations, our experience indicates that the more personal and thus risky these topics get, the more difficult it is for participants to stay committed and engaged." Singleton and Hays

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Abdelhafiz, Ahmed Samir, Samar Abd ElHafeez, Mohammad Adnan Khalil, Manal Shahrouri, Bandar Alosaim, Raneem O. Salem, Mohamed Alorabi, Fatma Abdelgawad, and Mamoun Ahram. ‘Factors Influencing Participation in COVID-19 Clinical Trials: A Multi-National Study’. Frontiers in Medicine 8 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.608959.

This incomplete statement echoes with the lyrics "This life is weary" that Jose sang in the middle of the story. This incomplete sentence also leaves a blank for the reader to fill in according to their feelings.

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Having an option to not participate when not comfortable, I feel actually makes students want to participate more since they feel as if they have a choice.

What do we know so far? Where are clear areas where research can be done to improve our understanding of this?

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This is different from apathy; it's more like powerlessness.

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How can students play a more active, integral role when institutions are considering adopting these platforms?

Definition of participatory design

Definition of participation -- approaches taken in designing technology that users are not substitutable for one another

Establishment of bodies and paths for community participation in the development of new industrial activities and the assessments of their needs imposed by the labour market linked to the industry and its ups and downs.

contribute thoughtfully, connect kindly, and go boldly... I think Troy's words here are the umbrella goal. Don't you?

This can be a good tool to encourage our students to take part and collaborate. #muraludg

This makes me wonder what assumptions are made about students in regards to what knowledge they come with and what knowledge they are expected to already know. Also if the symbolic perspective don't need to replicate authentic activities, how will knowledge transfer to the real world?

Suharno, Susilowati, I., Anggoro, S., & Gunanto, E. Y. A. (2017). Typical Analysis for Fisheries Management: The Case for Small-Scaler of Shrimp Fishers. Advanced Science Letters, 23(8), 7096–7099. https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2017.9299

Suharno, Susilowati, I., Anggoro, S., & Gunanto, E. Y. A. (2017). Typical Analysis for Fisheries Management: The Case for Small-Scaler of Shrimp Fishers. Advanced Science Letters, 23(8), 7096–7099. https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2017.9299

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320992173_TYPICAL_ANALYSIS_FOR_FISHERIES_MANAGEMENT_THE_CASE_FOR_SMALL-SCALER_OF_SHRIMP_FISHERS

This idea of "Connect Learning" connects directly with one initiative that we are currently implementing at the school I work at. This initiative is Project Based Learning from the Buck Institute for Education. Specfically the ideas of interest-driven and socially embedded aligns with the PBL components of "Authenticity" and "Sustained Inquiry."

I'm eager to learn more about this. We are trying to be more inclusive in our work as a department and I hope this will provide us some suggestions for moving forward.

Hay un "remedo" de participación, que presupone que porque tenemos acceso a Internet estamos participando. La participación real debe estar asociada a modelos socioeconómicos que la hagan posible y la valoren más allá del extractivismo y la exclusión actual.

I believe this argument, where hybridity within the third space allows for movement across languages in a means that promotes literacy development is the most convincing. I look forward to reading more regarding how hybridity can influence literacy development and language acquisition, especially for those students who qualify for CLD services.

I would be surprised if this is truly the case. I would argue that it's more typical for teachers to say they don't have the time or resources to really exploit an opportunity to create a new learning space. They state this hypothesis in the article, but do not cite how they came to this conclusion. I'm assuming it's more of a theory, and I'd argue that it's more likely teachers see "time" and other commitments as an obstacle as well.

After going through the readings for this week, I find this was (I hate to admit), my personal experience when I was in the classroom. I tended to resist or placate opportunities for further learning within the the "third space." Typically this would come in the form or having students "get back on topic" or let them know that we might be able to discuss that later. I think when you're a new teacher, one wants to stick with the curriculum because of how safe it is, and do not have the experience or classroom management ability to and transition to the lesson example provided within the reading later (the reproductive grade school example.

True. We see this too in language acquisition and assessment that can account for that learning outside of the classroom.

It would be interesting to see more recent data showing how cellphones have impacted this.

This idea of an "individual as a container" from the Symbolic Processing Theory reminds me of the Banking Approach to education that Pablo Friere discusses as an oppressive form of learning in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970). Wheres as the authors in this text describe human beings as ones that process information and are "the container" for the input (knowledge), Friere describes how children are banking accounts that receive information. Although Friere may have discussed this from a sociological standpoint, I would argue that one can make a strong link between the Symbolic Processing Theory and the unauthentic and oppressive forms of learning described by Friere.

This idea feels central to the claims of this text. As I consider and wrestle with the ideas in this text, I see the claims as being a both/and because the mental processes of cognition are situated in the context and production of the community's work. It's the practical application of the ways of thinking within situated communities that builds the skills and thinking pathways of students.

If this is discussing the professional level, then, at the k-12 school level, this might go beyond just forming classroom communities, to students experiencing the community of discourse situated in each discipline (aka disciplinary literacy). This is a powerful consideration when considering authentic classroom experiences embedding the thinking and communication unique to each discipline.

I was familiar with both theories that were discussed in this article before reading it, however, I had never had them explained to me in these terms (symbolic processing theory and situativity theory.) I was glad that the article gave clear guidance on how the two work together, especially in the above mentioned paragraph about how a teacher is the transmitter of knowledge but is also responsible for creating a classroom community. I was also able to make some connections between these two learning theories and work we did in our leadership class (especially in terms of distributed leadership!)

As a adult learner, which "classroom" would you rather participate in? I think this is also where as adults we know what works best for us as a learner and what information is useful.

Desde el comienzo, el Data Week ha estado preocupado por la perspectiva de transformación social en la apropiación tecnológica al estar vinculada con la creación de capacidad en la base, modificación de la infraestructura y la amplificación de voces ciudadanas frente a iniciativas privadas o públicas.

[...] ICTs provide unique flexibility for users to interact and re-invent. ICTs can be modified and re-programmed, whether the ability to modify is explicitly enabled through design or uncovered through hacking. Device producers, application designers, content creators, service providers, and end users can therefore engage in the creative appropriation process and insight into social, economic, and political impacts can be gained exploring appropriation modalities.

Esto se puede conectar con la introducción respecto al caracter fluído, pero paradógico de las tecnologías digitales.

Nótese acá la connotación de hacking en términos de apertura y reinterpretación.

This is something that is often a misconception as it relates to the common core standards. Folks often say that there is not automatic retrieval of mathematical facts. However, this is not the case as the standards, when implemented properly, builds on conceptual proficiency to build this kind of automaticity--rather than just starting from automaticity.

How do we get all learners to think like experts?

Already this article seems to draw some interesting parallels to the book "Age of Opportunity". http://www.laurencesteinberg.com/books/age-of-opportunity

In this book, it is argued that the brain is more malleable for certain types of learning depending on the age of the subject. That is, young children's brain malleability, what the book calls plasticity, is highest for mostly very sensory learnings (i.e. sight, sound, language, etc.), whereas adolescents' brains are most malleable/plastic for developing higher order thinking skills. I would love to know how people think this fits this third theoretical postion Vygotsky presents.

Does development occur regardless of exposure to learning or does development occur because of learning?

It's difficult to try to shift my paradigms when reading this article.

What I mean is that the article was written in 1996 and it's ideas obviously built prior to 1996. The world and the economy that our educational systems serve are dramatically different than those conceptualized in this article. How do we consider the claims in these in light of current circumstances, notably that we actually have a much harder time providing preparation for jobs now because many students will be hired tomorrow for jobs that don't exist today!

The purpose of learning is to prepare children for the real world and future careers. Educators need to remember to include real world connections in order to provide meaningful learning experiences for students.

It's interesting how this may show up in modern research related to social emotional learning. That is, when learning different social emotional skills--such as coping, anger management, or knowing when to employ mindfulness practices--how do kids equilibriate to build these skills? And is self regulation a fundamental factor in development or is it THE factor in development?

This is similar to the process for teaching complex mathematical topics; CRA- Concrete, representational, abstract.

I wonder if the resolution between differences in process, organization, and development will be the same as the conclusion from the article on cognitive and situative learning theory. Derry and Steinkuehler concluded that the fusion of both theories, yielding a more complete methodology, was the next iteration in the understanding of learning and education (Derry & Steinkuehler, 2003).

Children are not able to learn new information unless they are ready to receive it or participate in active assimilation. Students' physical, mental, social, and emotional needs need to be satisfied before they are ready to process new knowledge.

How can we make opportunities for students to share and apply what they are learning with the community, especially in the current high-stakes testing environment?

Learning should be a life-long goal and skill applied throughout all aspects of children's lives. By connecting what happens at home to what happens at school, educators are instilling the belief that learning is an ongoing life skill allowing students to make meaning from their learning.

Students are expected to engage in higher level thinking and learning including critical thinking, making connections across content, creative problem solving, and self-regulation in learning in order to prepare them for 21st century careers.

Students need to understand how the parts make up the end result. They need to understand the purpose and meaning behind learning.

This sentence makes me think of the debate of equality vs equity. Giving every student the same learning environment and resources does not mean each student will have the same opportunity to reach success. Students with learning disabilities, students who speak languages other than English, and students who live in poverty need to be given different supports in order to reach success. It reminded me of this image

Should this approach to teaching and learning also include the political analysis and visions not aligned with the defense and furtherance of diverse stakeholders? Where is the direct non-confrontational engagement in academia of those on the political right? This did not happen in a vacuum, but a one-sided examination of causes and next steps perpetuates the "vacuum" feeling.

I'm glad that this will hopefully lead to a more thorough understanding of learning and education, but I wonder how long will it take to transform practices in public education. It seems public education is long overdue for a change in accepted practices given the current job market and workplace expectations.

This table is a great illustration of the types of classrooms that could be encountered at a typical school. There is the class where knowledge is contained in a person (teacher) and the class where knowledge is created. The best possible scenario is an opportunity to learn and apply new skills.

It seems the more we learn about theories that appear to be at odds, more is learned about how to understand novel situations.

The Four Pillars of Life

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And wouldn't this book have been even more of a conversation had they also published it on a platform like WordPress using PressBook's plug-in. Hey, they could still do it, right?

Linking to other blog posts in our posts is a great idea to really share the love.

Stealing this idea of mini-event blog rolls at the end of posts.

What a wonderful metaphor.

I am totally going to go this lesson at my fir Mozilla Club meeting next semester.

One thing that struck me about Mozfest was how often tech was never present in a session.

Refreshing.

I am going to use this piece in my class as an example of leadership and advocacy.

This is a wonderful definition of distributed leadership. We need to recognize horizontal and vertical pathways of community support.

That is awesome. Congrats. This is my favorite #mozfest post. It details how leadership and advocacy spread across the web.

This outreach, right after #mozfest is a good idea.

How is political activism being modeled for these youths? Was there intent participation from which they can observe and learn until they built confidence to proceed independently or were they expected to figure it out on their own with minimal guidance? This is a departure from the examples we have been looking at until now.

Is the underlying premise for crafting participation about creating a space for curiosity?

This sounds similar to book clubs and movie clubs, an opportunity to share the experience of a piece of art.

This reminds me of elementary school science fair!

The two paragraphs that follow are spot on. Nerds think government doesn't do anything right and they see government as this monolith thing apart from themselves rather than something they can and should work to affect, rather than circumvent.

One thing I got out of reading Graeber's "Democracy Project" was the idea that it is not rational people that inhabit the middle of the political spectrum. Most people are more radical than the media makes it seem. The media reinforces the narrative that if you hold strong political opinions you are a radical. Your neighbors think you're crazy. You should probably just follow the herd, more.

While there are definitely fundamentalists at the political extremes, there are also great thinkers.

"Hints"? That's the whole point. Participation is all there is. Do it.