Politicized and Participatory: The Many Voices of Wikis

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...

Doing-it-Ourselves in the Digital Age

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...
The Political Promise of Networked Learning

The Political Promise of Networked Learning

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”...
Connectivism: Linking to "Level-Up"

Connectivism: Linking to "Level-Up"

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...
Finding and Feeding the Inner Five-Year-Old

Finding and Feeding the Inner Five-Year-Old

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...