I listened to part of #learntrends at http://bit.ly/42i7ke but didn’t feel moved to contribute (as corporate education/ training is a little outside my comfort zone). It was all quite interesting and then someone pointed out that of the circa 100 participants, about 50% were women but the conversation had been male-dominated to that point. Dave [...]
Entries from April 2009
Web 2.0 liberates women! or are relationships still asymmetric?
April 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Learning Technology · People · gender
Still blogging my way through Edupunk and re-finding Digital Literacy
April 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments
This recent Edupunk conversation rumbles on:
Stephen Downes in OL Daily seems concerned that Martin Ebner ’s approach is insufficiently unwashed.
Graham Attwell quotes Scott Wilson’s Personal Learning and Web 2.0 presentation on how institutions can respond to Web 2.0.
I agree with Graham that the music analogy is getting stretched - I even spent some time looking [...]
Tags: Learning Technology · Stuff
Learning to love the term Edupunk
April 8th, 2009 · 8 Comments
I have been scratching my head to see why the term Edupunk raises vague and irrational feelings of irritation and suspicion in me. I love the philosophy of bricolage, workarounds and experimentation that it seems to encompass. After all the ‘poster boy’ for Edupunk, Jim Groom, has been blogging his experiments and thoughts on BuddyPress [...]
Tags: Information Systems · Learning Technology · People · Practice
Following and unfollowing in Twitter – sustaining your personal network
April 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments
I came across a conversation in Twitter that made think about ways of understanding people’s use of Twitter and their management of their personal networks within it. Here is the conversation extracted from my stream of tweets - remember to read the conversation from the bottom.
First of all, I would like to make clear that [...]
Tags: Learning Technology