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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 [...]

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John Seely Brown and Gender

May 13th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/30.html
I was directed to this list of recordings at EdTEchLive and noticed this interview of John Seely Brown, formerly of Xerox Parc.
The whole thing is worth listening to but if you are short of time, just listen to the last few minutes.?
At the end of this interview when asked to include anything missed out, he [...]

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Web 2.0 or Continuity

March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Seb Schmoller invited me to do a guest contribution over at Fortnightly Mailing where I wrote about ideas of innofusion and bricolage in understanding and shaping the read/ write web.
Just when I think that the term Web 2.0 might be dying away, others start on Web 3.0, and they are both Web 1.0 anyway;-)?
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