The creative potential of hand-crafted learning

In which I might be onto something, and in which I make an initial stab at trying to pin it down.
I’ve been journeying rather far from home for quite some time to explore a strange but compelling land where “learning” and “technology” and “education” and “change”… and people… seem to converge.
I travel with biases. We [...]

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CCK08: Shh. I’m listening…slowly

In which I explore the rudiments of a concept and reflect on connective knowledge through listening…
There’s slow food. Slow travel. Slow blogging. I’m a fan across the board. So it’s no wonder, then, that I’m also inclined toward what I’ve decided to call “slow listening.”
Someone I’d consider an internationally known “slow listener,” Studs Terkel, died last [...]

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CCK08: Being the Chicken

In which there are musings about poultry.
I was spectating the other day at a theater workshop. The participants started by deciding to “act like a chicken.” Then someone suggested they channel their movements as they “thought like a chicken.”
What next? A young participant assumed a temporary meditational pose. “BE the chicken,” she said.
Is it just [...]

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CCK08: All improv, all the time

In which a metaphor gets stretched to the breaking point and the need for autotelism is implied.
Stephen Downes made a comment in passing during last Wednesday morning’s Elluminate session on Connective Knowledge that caught my attention– something to the effect that the course had elicited more emotion than one would ever expect a course in this [...]

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CCK08: Is Connectivism Shiny?

Whereby I commit logical fallacies, reference ideas far outside my area of expertise, exhibit ignorance of many aspects of connectivist theory, place groups, communities and networks in a single bag, and potentially annoy a number of people.  In other words… thinking out loud. 
Whenever something new and cool and incredibly smart floats across the computer screen [...]

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