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Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

August 2009

  • AmeriCorps is Going To Take your Guns and Make You Gay-Marry

    Pretty incredible clip. I’m actually a bit speechless. Thank God the newspapers are keeping everyone honest, right? Continue reading

  • SketchUp and Autism

    Recently, one of our faculty, a leading authority on Autism, shared this amazing video he had found: This to me is the promise of education writ large: helping kids (and adults!) to find their unique abilities, no matter who they are. One thing that makes it possible, of course, is that it is free. In Continue reading

  • “Tic Tac Toe” Project Finalist in Microsoft Innovative Teacher Contest

    So I kind of wanted to hate this project, b/c a) it’s a Microsoft Competition, and b) the project is so mired in the bureaucratic context of grade-school that it begins to sound like something out of The Office: 2009 U.S. Innovative Teachers Network: Columbus East High School, Columbus, IN from Carrie Hipsher on Vimeo. Continue reading

  • Education and the Good Enough Revolution

    It’s increasingly important to consider how the Good Enough Revolution pertains to education. I’m a fan of educational research, but worry that it focuses too much on marginal differences, in a world that does not value marginal differences in quality anymore. What does the world care about? The Wired article gets it right — we Continue reading

  • Google Bundles, OPML, Courses and Cohorts

    Google Bundles is likely to be a good thing for classroom use, because it’s essentially the OPML idea with a catchy name (in fact, it looks like every bundle also creates an OPML file). I don’t want to get into an argument about why things like Google Bundles and Twitter take off while things like Continue reading

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  • The one video of Ted Kennedy’s you should watch

    Most people don’t understand the mess the Senate has become in terms of its delaying tactics and the use of filibuster by delay. The press doesn’t cover it, because they’d rather film people shouting at town halls than tell us why our system is broken. The game nowadays, especially for Republicans, is not to vote Continue reading

  • R.I.P. Digital Native Theory

    …and good riddance. From the NY Times: Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 text messages a day. But she never uses Twitter, even though it publishes similar snippets of conversations and observations. “I just think it’s weird and I don’t feel like everyone needs to know what I’m doing every Continue reading

  • DIYbio and Authentic Learning

    “Kay’s dad has got recessive gene that she may have, she doesn’t know if she has it has it, so she is genotyping that gene in herself in her closet, and she’s going to figure out if she has it….” If you are thinking of doing some authentic instruction in biology, you MUST, repeat, MUST Continue reading

  • Cooperation, not Collaboration

    Downes makes the point repeatedly that we talk too much about collaboration (which is something new technology allows us to do better) and not enough about cooperation (which is something the network allows us to do for the first time on this unprecedented scale). The neat thing about cooperation is that if you can structure Continue reading

  • Blood of Tyrants

    We scoff at the ancestor worship of other cultures, and consider divine right and kingship and all that stuff to be anti-American. So can someone explain to me why we will endure any kind of nuttery if it is tied to something one of our Founding Fathers once said? Case in point — at the Continue reading