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Educational Technology and the Sources of Innovation
Cross-posted from e-Literate. After reading an an excellent post by tech-blogger Jon Udell on innovation, I spent the weekend getting reacquainted with work of Eric von Hippel, the researcher who pioneered the study of user-driven innovation. What’s interesting about von Hippel is that his research hits on the common themes of the open education movement, Continue reading
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Is Domain of One’s Own a platform?
Is Domain of One’s Own a platform? The short answer is no, not in the traditional sense. But I came across this 1995 post from Dave Winer about what a platform should be, and there is some definite resonance with his conception of the idea: A platform must have potential, or open space. I call Continue reading
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Have you got a 27B-stroke-6?
Edupunk vs. EduIT in a nutshell? I tend to see Jim Groom as Harry Tuttle. But YMMV. I’d probably trust Tony Hirst more with plumbing. Continue reading
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Messaging, Phatic Overhead, and the Right to Connect
There’s a number of articles, none of which I’ve read, that propose (or assume) that SMS messaging is used as a phatic system. Under this analysis SMS is like the chatter of the monkeys in trees, a chatter which is primarily used to say “Are you still there?” “Yep. You?” “Yep. Still here. How about Continue reading
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