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#CLMOOC Make Cycle #2: Re(Media)te with ME
I started taking part in MOOCs several years ago and am now part of the 2015 Connected Learning MOOC #CLMOOC. We're in the second week, and each week a newsletter introduces a new theme for learning....
View ArticleThe Graduation Thesis: Insufficient and Outmoded
This the title of a recent article I wrote for my university research journal (Gakuen). In it, I advocate for subsuming the Graduation Thesis, common here in Japan among undergraduates, among a...
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Building Personal Learning Habits – Solving Complex Problems
In many of my articles I've shown media stories from the 1990s that show the same problems facing Chicago 20 years ago are the same as we are facing now. My comments focus on the lack of consistent,...
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Annotation. A New Learning and Collaboration Tool
How many times have you read a book, or an article, and used your yellow high-lighter to mark up important passages, or used sticky notes to post comments? Or even written notes in the margins? I'm...
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Teachers: Now a Working Class Profession
“From the Sage on the Stage to the Guide on the Side” is now about 20 years old. A little shopworn, but still a…how shall I put it….goal, of some teachers and how they adapt to technology. It is the...
View ArticleEtmooc 3 Year Anniversary Celebration
On January 20th we celebrated the 3rd anniversary of the Open and Connected Learning Mooc (etmooc) and launched the Mario Couros Memorial Bursary. Susan hosted the conversation on Zoom which was a new...
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Moving to Medium
There is a new blogging platform, one that I think is better than WordPress, and I am moving there for future posts. I will add pointers here, but the content will be there. Why am I releasing total...
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Who Am I? #CLMOOC Introduction
This week the 2016 version of the Connected Learning MOOC is starting. Participants are encouraged to create a visual introduction, and share it with others on various social media platforms.I first...
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Building on-line Communities – #clmooc example
Below is an archive of a Connected Learning #clmoc Twitter chat that took place last week. It was created by Kevin Hodgson, a middle school teacher from Massachusetts.[View the story "#CLMOOC:...
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Building Public Will. Changing the Future.
Today I attended the UIC Urban Forum: Jobs and the Labor Force of Tomorrow and was actively Tweeting quotes until my phone battery went low. I took about 5 pages of notes, which I'll draw from in...
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