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  • In Which I Meet Our (Other) Allies

    So, I’ve just stumbled into a gold mine. Via an inbound link from Stephen Downes, I’ve discovered that much of what I’ve been calling an inverted LMS has been called elsewhere a PLE (personal learning environment): Helen Barrett receives an email from Mike Caulfield describing an Inverted LMS, which turns out to be the PLE, Continue reading

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  • Marc Andreessen Supports the Inverted LMS (sort of)

    This is fascinating, to me at least. Marc (are we allowed to call him Marca?) came late to blogging, but he’s clearly making up for lost time and talking to the right people. But what I noted in his recent post was how much his view of the larger web (via Sifry) matches exactly what Continue reading

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  • Inverted LMS Revisited: The various uses of containers

    Gardner Writes has a good critique of of my Inverted LMS post, which raises a number of important issues. So let’s say first I am both manifesto-prone and conversation-addicted, and those things generally equal out. This is conversation Mike speaking. The question Gardner poses is whether “student-centered” swings too far in the other direction: But Continue reading

  • John Willinsky and the Ten Years War

    If you’re interested in education and technology, go (now!) and listen to Jon Udell’s recent interview with John Willinsky. Then go listen to Willinsky’s fascinating 1 hour lecture which deals with everything from Issac Newton as proto-blogger to Wikipedia error rates to why our exam-book culture is selfish and anti-intellectual. You might want to listen Continue reading

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  • WordPress MU and eportfolio reporting requirements

    I had the good luck this week to stumble into a very helpful blogswarm. And since it’s best to make use of their expertise while they are still checking back here, let’s cut to the chase. Here is the new thought, re: eportfolios and other WP projects needing data aggregation. Append an optional process at Continue reading

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  • Enterprise Learning Systems Considered Harmful to Learning

    Not a new thought, but one I’m newly fired up about after talking to Jon Udell last night. We don’t make enterprise purchases for students when it comes to spiral bound notebooks, pencils, or binders. So why do we move so quickly to consider e-learning questions “enterprise” questions? When looking at e-portfolio possibilities, why wouldn’t Continue reading

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  • Michael Gorman wins Gold Medal for Irony

    The Sphere is abuzz with discussion of Michael Gorman’s rambling monologues about Web 2.0. They are two profoundly confused pieces. While Gorman’s posts will win no prizes for coherence of thought or depth of knowledge, they might just win a Gold Medal for Irony. Why? Because in an article bemoaning the death of respect for Continue reading

  • ePortfolios, Durability, and the Black Binder Test

    My wife has an interview tomorrow for a position at the public high school. Tonight, she is preparing by flipping through giant black binder. What’s in the binder? A lot of stuff. Lesson plans from her student teaching days. Photographs from an inner city school activity she helped direct. The curriculum she developed for her Continue reading

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  • Two Questions

    We need to stop asking how we can communicate with our college students in their idiom, which is a valid question, but ultimately a marketing and customer service issue. We need to start asking the real question, which is how do we teach our students to collaborate and communicate in ways fit for the agile Continue reading

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