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Posted in online learning, online pedagogy on Jul 29th, 2010
Yesterday’s misunderstanding in the opinion change with Downes got me to think further. It is good to be embarrassed sometimes – or is that word too negative, is confused better, I do not know those nuances. To be confused is a beginning of making sense in an obscure domain. I am sure that learning can [...]
Posted in change, learning theory, me, network on Jul 20th, 2010
I returned to my studies again, got an interesting comment from Steve Mackenzie – studies do not stop when the course comes to its end. That is fine. Now I will gather information about our Critical Literacies Course from my point of view. – It is raining, not too hot at this moment, nice to [...]
Posted in me on Jul 6th, 2010
My motive is to perform the formal part of semantics week with this post, so that I can do what I want. Semantics is described in our Moodle 6.week: The ability to connect communicative elements to underlying purposes, goals, objectives, theories or meaning, denotation, reference, truth and understanding. Including new ways of interpreting information and [...]
Posted in learning theory, network on Jul 2nd, 2010
Paul Bouchart was our guest on Wednesday Ellumination and I liked to participate in the session. I could follow the presentation and agreed mostly because I have a long history in adult education. It was nice to meet old models as Grow’s self directed learning that we have used in my workplace from the beginning [...]
Posted in network on Jul 1st, 2010
The heading of this post came from an article – it was in some Finnish journal – in which someone said that Nokia were more succesfull if it’s brand were Connecting with people, not only Connecting people. Who knows, it is easy to be wise now, after many years. I want to show you a [...]
Posted in learning theory on Jun 21st, 2010
This is my contribution at the end of third week of CritLit2010. I moved to our summer cottage on Thursday, with some books and iPhone. Fortunately I found Stephen Brookfield’s Developing Critical Thinkers: challenging adults to explore alternative ways of thinking and acting. 1987. The book was in my bookshelf, waiting for opportunity to be [...]
Posted in learning theory on Jun 16th, 2010
Pragmatics was the object of our learning in the Elluminate Session today, 16.6. - CritLit2010. I tried to concentrate and follow the presentations of Graham Atwell and Jenny Hughes. I gather here the main issues I could follow: Pragmatics studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. The relation of the speaker to the [...]
Posted in change on Jun 16th, 2010
Pragmatics is the theme of CritLit2010 on this week. I hardly can follow this theme. Maria helped me writing her blog, she is expert on digital literacies. She pondered cultural differences in her post, please read it. The text we got for this week : Pragmatics The capacity to use communicative elements in actions, or [...]
Posted in learning theory on Jun 15th, 2010
Our theme in this week is pragmatics which is a part of linguistics. I have no intent to study it seriously in a week , I am not motivated to follow linguistics – but I am interested in critical thinking. I suppose it is near pragmatics: how to use language etc. My main interest just [...]
Posted in me, online learning on Jun 14th, 2010
I was working with Carlo Columba’s innovation image - our last week material about creativity – I recieved it from Carlo. You know students don’t listen to teachers or facilitators , they want to learn peer-to-peer And after getting a comment from Ruth Howard, I understood I have lived this moment in the end of [...]
