Brainstorm in Progress

Humboldt State University ( Wikipedia ) Our new class is slowly taking shape. The course will be based on our old DE 101 (Distance Ed 10...

Stephen Downes (Photo credit: WordShore ) Educators who have not taken a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and do not un...

Jim Groom as Edupunk  (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I have been reading articles lately written by educators who have not pa...

I have been reading about Matt Mullican since Dorothy Spear's New York Times article " Mapping an Imagined Order, Page by Page ...

I am interested in Ramachandran and neurology lately because of claims made by George Siemens and others that there is a direct correlation...

In reading discussions and listening to George Siemens and Stephen Downes speak in our class, Connectivism and Connected Knowledge, I have h...

To be an effective blogucator, each sentence you write must coin or use a neologism. If what you are trying to communicate seems unclear to ...

Image via Wikipedia If we are going to make claims about how people think and learn, I think we also need to show that it is not really a ne...

Connectivism is one of the latest and important steps in the evolution in thinking about teaching and learning. The ideas in Connectivism ac...

A few days ago, I was thinking about Connectivism (the theory of life, the universe, and everything) and was trying to think about how such ...

This is an expansion of the a posting I made in the Moodle forum for Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. In any discussion of the "h...

For readers of this blog who are not in the Connectivism class, I highly recommend this short but brilliant presentation. I listened to the ...

In our class, Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, we were subjected to Barry Wellman's powerpoint presentation as if it were an actua...

Mark Edmundson, English teacher at the University of Virginia, has written an anti-educational technology essay in the New York Times called...

I have used learning theory, Constructivism, to create course materials and assignments. I have used the theory to produce particular result...

Constructivism represented a revolution in online learning. It changed the online classroom model from "sage on the stage" to ...

I am very excited about this syllabus I wrote with Charlene Gore for a class that we co-teach, Health Information Management 101. This cours...

Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality at Toolness Ubiquity is a new plug-in for Firefox that integrates multiple tools as key comm...