Hapgood

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

  • Recursive Publics

    From Christopher Kelty’s new book, via Glyn Moody: Recursive publics are publics concerned with the ability to build, control, modify, and maintain the infrastructure that allows them to come into being in the first place and which, in turn, constitutes their everyday practical commitments and the identities of the participants as creative and autonomous individuals.… Continue reading

  • Edupunk and REST

    Everyday I wake up thinking “This is the day we kill the edupunk meme. Because even *I* am sick of it.” But then I read something like this from Brian Kelly: REST, it seems, is the punk response to the pompous stadium rock of SOAP and the Web Services stack. That’s exactly right. But bigger… Continue reading

  • Ideology and EdTech (or, the Skunk at the Party)

    Jim Groom, in a nicely organized post: Wow, there’s a mouthful. But if you have gotten this far, the question is not so much that ideology is dead, but that our moment is projected back to us as one without alternatives. That’s exactly right. I’m not sure if Jim knows the history here, but it… Continue reading

  • Keene State’s AT Vision as a model of productive engagement

    So one thing the word-that-must-not-be-named craze has got me thinking about is frankly how much we all have been doing. I had forgotten. Then all these people popped out of the woodwork and assumed we were frustrated do-nothing tenured faculty with an ideological axe to grind. And what that did was remind me, because of… Continue reading

  • A short explanation from a terminal smasher (or, Blackboard as an access control company)

    YAAY! I am also going to smash all my corporate-made computers and hand-build my own. It’s NOT about the vehicle – it’s how you use it… — Lee (no last name provided) dismissing EDUPUNK in a comment on the Chronicle article As a person who has been involved in quite a bit of social activism,… Continue reading

  • Bowling Alone, the Local Internet, and XBox Live

    From Putnam, 1995: The most whimsical yet discomfiting bit of evidence of social disengagement in contemporary America that I have discovered is this: more Americans are bowling today than ever before, but bowling in organized leagues has plummeted in the last decade or so. Between 1980 and 1993 the total number of bowlers in America… Continue reading

  • Edupunk

    Jim Groom brings a new term into being in a recent post — edupunk. There’s a couple reasons why I find the term useful, but the most important is that it captures the cultural revulsion many of us feel with the appropriation of the Learning 2.0 movement by corporations such as Blackboard. Learning 2.0, like… Continue reading

  • Why Halo 3 is more educational than “intellectual” games

    I always *felt* like I should be a gamer. After all, I built educational games for a good portion of my career — first for children (reading readiness software), then for Columbia University and Cable & Wireless, where the name of the game was social simulations — choose-your-own-adventure style scenarios where you interacted with professional… Continue reading

  • Made the jump to Linux

    Vista on my budget laptop was the straw that broke the camel’s back. (really, there must be a better and more current saying for that, but I’m pre-coffee today). I was losing an untold amount of time clicking links and x’s and waiting for Vista to do something (anything!). I was watching as Vista crashed… Continue reading

  • UMW Faculty Academy — on Ustream!

    So I was unaware until I got a twitter from Jim that the UMW faculty academy was on UStream.tv. They are off air right now, but they should be starting up around 11:15. I’ve embedded the Ustream below. Live Videos provided by Ustream.TV The Janet Murray presentation was wonderful, and the the faculty participation was… Continue reading