by mariawidmer | Nov 8, 2015 | Blog
A reflection on “Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture“, “Making Projects, Making Friends“, and “Scratch Here“. Laissez-Feral? For all of the educational promises of participatory learning, Jenkins et al note that...
by mariawidmer | Oct 17, 2015 | Blog
Enlightenment and the Encyclopédie From its beginning, Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie bridged a gap between ambition and reality, between its editor’s vision of collective knowledge so transformative as to have “the power to change men’s common way of thinking” and a...
by mariawidmer | Oct 3, 2015 | Blog
A reflection on “Web 2.0 Technologies as Cognitive Tools of the New Media Age”, “Defining the Connected Educator” and “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education“ D.I.Y. is dead, long live D.I.O. Sure, student-centered learning...
by mariawidmer | Sep 26, 2015 | Blog
A reflection on “The Networked Student”, “Rethinking Learning: The 21st Century Learner“, “Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design“, “The Global One-Room Schoolhouse“, and “Becoming a Networked Learner”...
by mariawidmer | Sep 19, 2015 | Blog
A reflection on “Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age” by George Siemens (2004) and “Arc-of-Life Learning; A New Culture of Learning” by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown (2011) “When knowledge…is needed, but not...
by mariawidmer | Sep 12, 2015 | Blog
A reflection on two texts by John Seely Brown: “Learning Working & Playing in the Digital Age” (1999) and “Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0” (2008) Learning in the digital age lets us resume...
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