After having begun my analysis of an article for the Connectivism class, I have decided against using this blog to post my reflections. Not because they won’t be relevant to the issue of online teaching (this relevance, after all, is why I’m taking the class), but because I realized I am likely to write somewhat lengthy (and possibly unillustrated) responses to written work. That will make it difficult for the online teachers who use my blog to find what they want here to support their pedagogical goals or seek answers to their technological problems. I found that in one analysis, I got into issues of morality and dystopian visions that don’t really fit the character and tone of this blog. So I’m taking my academic set of posts to another venue, my new Lisa’s Edublog for the Connectivism class.
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Hey Lisa . I just wan’t to say that you had a great idea with this blog and your topics are interesting even for me , which I’m not really into this , but I had my share of education in life .
Keep on the good work .
It’s energizing for a CCK08 fellow student to see your power of producing several blogs 🙂 And sure is a more efficient way for you to share your thinking and expertise on diverse fields. Still – there’s also one aspect I by adopting transformative learning and now diving into connectivism – have learned to respect in learning in general.
I chose to set my basic principles and targets re. CCK08 as follows:
*Understanding the iterative, process like nature of learning and life
*Discovering the unsought
*Creating randomness
Focusing, focusing and focusing in the middle of the overwhelming amount of information is a key issue. Still – a roundabout way unexpectedly replacing part of the planned learning route can quickly lead into eye-opening and world-view widening learning experiences => offering possibilities to utilize and share the learned and experienced in a number of other fields of learning and life as well – than what the teaching and learning originally was focusing.
That’s why I find it vital to – as a kind of an opposite pole of focusing – to encourage reading, writing, exploring, experiencing a lot of side themes beside the mainstream of one’s personal – and through networking shared and externalized – learning. See you online 🙂