sometimes

objective analysis

The idea of bricolage produces a new way to talk about, and think about, systems and structures without falling into the trap of trying to build a new stable system out of the ruins of a deconstructed one.

A bricoleur doesn’t care about the purity or stability or ‘truth’ of a system he or she uses, but rather uses what’s there to get a particular job done.

pre-existing things together in new ways, and makes do with whatever is at hand.

Related suggestions? 

serendipity

The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know and how much you need to learn.

you, myself or others can gather around one or more of them.

My art teacher was a great teacher, he would give me excellent marks and then fail to convince me to do some work. 

Jam

Could you share your workflow for that or for anything else that has value for you?

we succeeded not just because we were dancing to the same tune, but we were constructing shared meaning and getting tuned to the same harmonic.

Beyond the stark fiscal crisis, we are also in the midst of the biggest online learning experiment in human history,

More than 40 percent of faculty members at all two-year and four-year colleges work part time.

migration of courses and degrees online

taking a sledgehammer to higher education

plan your work, work your plan

Nib

DICHOTOMIES

local knowledge serves as the bed-rock in that meaning-making

The exchange now feels seared into my brain.

JASNA

I am no longer teaching courses that have learning objectives that don’t include teaching the skills necessary to survive in an age of collapse. I think this might be one of those tools to teach those skills.

“emergent, iterative, collaborative, critical.

design principles

tracing

Mapping not tracing.

k.

Annotation

couldchallenge the existing order.

Freire might retortthat Bourdieu is focused onthe transmission of the dominant cultureand cannot see beyonda banking model of education.

with and not for

problem-centered dialogue between teacherand student, in which each learns from the other, the educator too must be educated.

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empathy

complexity

deliberately confusing

longer, denser, more difficult texts

deep reading

Sherry Turkle

and consider the idea that some students (consciously or otherwise) create personas when working online,

best

I have grown to love the concept I learned from Mia of having an over all shape or major parts of the course outlined as a “spine” but filling in details as we went, rather than committing everything to a detailed syllabus.

A contemporary application of Vygotsky's theories is "reciprocal teaching," used to improve students' ability to learn from text. In this method, teacher and students collaborate in learning and practicing four key skills: summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting. The teacher's role in the process is reduced over time.

If the answer is a multiple choice and/or fill-in-the-blank exam, how much does it matter that students can recall that knowledge offhand?"

"If students can Google the answers to your questions, then your questions are crap."

But the fact that a great deal of learning even now seems to happen casually and as a by-product of some other activity defined as work or leisure does not mean that planned learning does not benefit from planned instruction and that both do not stand in need of improvement.

although faster if their parents pay attention to them

Most skills can be acquired and improved by drills, because skill implies the mastery of definable and predictable behavior

futurology.

transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring

educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.

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anthropologis

anthropologis

KNOWLEDGE may BLIND more than it allows us to see.

creative

illustrations

information

observations

ancient

annotate

observations

astronomical

via Wikipedia

a ‘conversation’

‘noise’

academic guild chatter

My mistake.

Conversation is not leading to me practicing digital hospitality.  

I wanted more deliberate practice.

Both? Neither? Signal? Noise?

sorry states

Prisoner

Prisoners

Prisoners

You have to build for the reality we live in, not the one we hope to create.

The problem with connecting everyone on the planet is that a lot of people are assholes.

#digciz

the larger visualization.

Or is lurking one of those known unknowns that we fail to account for, that is impossible to account for?

 How does this blindspot feel?

#4wordstory

I will carry on for awhile with #digciz with a measure of leeriness and worldly weariness and some forced cheeriness, hoping that the game is worth the candle.  

 I assume that because someone doesn’t reciprocate, that they are not a good #digciz.

. You can go from n00b to expert and back to n00b in 2 steps.”  Nobody needs to be in charge in a mature rhizome.

assemblage of information technologies duct-taped together with a mess of protocols

highly heterogeneous

Rhizomes aren't just about information. They are also about computational capabilities, distribution capabilities, relationships, trust, and permission architectures.

arborescence

This particular writer used a web script to shut down Hypothesis and other annotation tools at their site.

Academics can assist citizens by making their specific area of expertise more accessible and understandable to a wider audience.

Whereas McCloud’s definition excludes single-panel comics, Harvey’s excludes wordless comics like Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and Thomas Ott’s Cinema Panopticum, along with many other examples.

Definitions should pin an object down, put a finis around it.

Marshall McLuhan saw in this moment comics’ participatory power—the reader is forced to interact with the comic more consciously than with a traditional text.

visual and verbal modes have become inextricable

Meaning is created through connections.

I stress these differences not to disparage Sousanis’s book, which is innovative, fascinating, and much more of a “pure” comic than my own.

In his recent comic monograph Unflattening, Nick Sousanis employs the metaphor of parallax vision to discuss the relationship between image and text in comics (31)

lifeline for those uncomfortably adrift.

Of course, this can leave readers with the feeling of being thrown in the deep end (or even the ocean, to continue Deleuze's example).

After a bit of testing, I realized that what readers wanted wasn't more organization, but more of a feeling of organization. This difference is subtle but important.

Based on comments from my reviewers, it was clear that the initial draft of this book felt disorganized. In my own mind it was actually a little too organized (especially for something with rhiz- in the title)

Even the ultimate antidogmatic image, the rhizome, can become dogmatic.

“Perhaps we must say that all progress is made by and in striated space, but all becoming occurs in smooth space.” (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 486)

We assess only those features that we really don’t care about: mechanics, structure, how much it looks like the platonic ideal of an essay in my head.

the teacher will be hard-pressed to form rigid evaluative guidelines for assignments that experiment, whose very goal it is to break out of academic prose.

we sanitize them and make them just more academic discourse.*

Choosing a medium is a rhetorical decision, and one Shipka advises her students to make carefully.

While many are content to see multimodal composition as a new phenomenon, Shipka exposes its secret history, with motivations and questions lurking in Quintilian and a robust literature arising in the 1970s and 80s coming out of calls for more expressive writing.

muddle

Rhizcomics

Everything you know might be wrong

their song by God

to even broach the idea of silence

sing the bloody hell out of your song

high-pilèd books

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone 

trator

Illustrator

Teacher as Illustrator

I know

This indicated student ownership of the story and meant my task of helping with the structure was nearly done

unimpeded brainstorm

Since this was their project, first person it would be.

provides.

light bulb

eye opener

Critical Digital Pedagogy

discovery

How could anyone depict transcendence

emerged

Emergent

tired

Cares

crows in the hedgerows

dancing

an origami universe

fold

wiring and firing

flattened

drunk

chortle)

rhizomatic

uncharted

zeega

Anybody want to annotate it with me? Go here if you do.

close reading

value text

creating a WordPress plugin

(Someone please

The crow calls for help

squeeze

too depressing to think about

Surely our population in Capacity is bigger than 3! 

Shrank.

peerlearningandcooperativelearnin

processofjointactivityitself.Rather,itiscreatedinthecourseofcollaboration:"Weproposethatanessentialfeatureoflearningisthatitcreatesthezoneofproximaldevelopment;thatis,learningawakensavarietyofdevelopmentalprocessesthatareabletooperateonlywhenthechildisinteractingwithpeopleinhisenvironmentandincollaborationwithhispeers"(Vygotsky,1978,p.90

peercollaborationcannotignorewhateachindividualbringstothecollaborativeproces

seofpsychologicaltools

dwellssolelyoninterpersonalaspects,relyingontheconceptofthezoneofproximaldevelopment,reducesthetheoryinawaythatseriouslydetractsfromitsvalue

Vygotsky-inspiredresearchintopeercollaborativeprob-lemsolvinghasbeenlessplentifulbecauseVygotsky,unlikePiaget(especiallyinhisworkonmoralreasoning),didnotemphasizetheparticularbenefitsofpeercollaborationandfocusedmoreonadult-childinteraction.Vygotsky'stheory,however,hastremendousimplicationsforourunderstandingofpeercollaboration

Teaching and schooling are the problem

iatrogenic

Internet is still the wild west

fall

fraud

fraud.

fraud.

fraud.

fraud

fraud.

fraud

Fraud!

PAHSIT

The Wind in the Willows

piper at the gates of dawn.

am so happy that this pop-up was just that–one and done and lots of fun.

For a MOOC, the impact was pretty small

community of practice

They can get an A without ever opening a book.

beautiful

two plus two equals five

ennobling powers of the humanities and the arts.

If a sessional instructor complains publicly about her institution or its declining standards, she will do so only once.

a mirror.

proposed

heard of an instructor

(serious study of texts and historical events, honest lectures with real content)

he Disneyfication of your course offerings (Religious Studies 211—“The Whore of North Africa: Augustine Gone Wild in Carthage”)

t less and less economic earning power

Rather than learning freely and excelling, they’ve become shrewd managers of their own careers

2,300 students enrolled at a range of four-year colleges and universities in the United States. They found that 5 percent of students failed to show any statistically significant improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and written communication after the first two years of college, and 36 percent showed no progress after four years.

Undereducated instructors are compromising the value of your sons’ and daughters’ educations

knows next to nothing

Second, they are professionally vulnerable and therefore remain mostly silent about critical matters

minimum requirement for teaching undergraduates is a graduate degree in the relevant discipline being taught.

though a PhD is certainly preferable