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Educational Technology: Educ 8845 Module 2 Blog
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Friday, April 2, 2010. Educ 8845 Module 2 Blog. Response to Bill Kerr and Karl Kapp Blogs:. I agree fully with Bill Kerr in that learning theories' jobs are essentially the "rebels/radicals" of education. Learning theories are charged with the responsibility of challenging curriculum as society evolves, and in turn explaining the challenges posed by the theory's challenges to current thought in curriculum. In other words,. For Module 2, I've responded to the following blogs:. Http:/ billkerr2.blogspo...
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Bill Kerr: _isms as filter, not blinker
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Monday, January 01, 2007. Isms as filter, not blinker. Learning theory, like politics, is full of isms: constructivism, behaviourism, cognitivism and now a new one, connectivism. What should we do about these isms? Are they a useful guide to what to think and do? In October I wrote this on the home page of the learning evolves wiki. Should we stick to -isms or should we be more pragmatic and just cherry pick different useful ideas out of the various theories? It remains puzzling that so much of the instr...
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Second Campus: July 2006
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Sunday, July 30, 2006. SL and the Music Scene. Ricardo Sprocket explores using Second Life as a venue for indie band promotion. Posted by Cliffordb Hightower @ 11:27 PM. Momentum is Growing (Latest round of links from the SL homepage). Guardian Slices of Life in a Parallel Universe. CBSNews.com A Home Run Derby in The Virtual World. Boston Phoenix (Cover Story) Does Your Life Suck? Yahoo Business Wire Global Kids Launches Inaugural Educational. CNET News.com Second Life makes an All-Star Pitch. WebProNew...
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Second Campus: October 2006
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Scientists Say Video Games Can Reshape Education. Check out this CNN article about how video games might reshape education. Check it out [HERE]. Posted by Cliffordb Hightower @ 5:39 AM. Tuesday, October 24, 2006. Cars, Books, Travel, Sloodle, and Banks Come to SL. Ok, here is a break down of major comings and goings in SL over the last week and a half. There are now several Amazon affiliated bookstores in SL. Read a kind of negative blogpost about them [HERE]. I was overwhelmed...
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Bill Kerr: Capital is a social relation, not a static thing
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Saturday, April 18, 2015. Capital is a social relation, not a static thing. This is intended as an introduction to the philosophy of internal relations as developed by Bertell Ollman, 1935 -. Capital is not just a thing but a dynamic, living social relationship. My essay on Social Forms. Ricardo made a similar mistake. He regarded Capital as “accumulated labour”, as something purely material, a mere element in the labour process. (Marx, Theory of Surplus Value. In other places Marx refers to money and co...
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Bill Kerr: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: the future of Islam
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Sunday, March 22, 2015. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: the future of Islam. But this is not a work of theology. It is more in the nature of a public intervention in the debate about the future of Islam. The biggest obstacle to change within the Muslim world is precisely its suppression of the sort of critical thinking I am attempting here. If my proposal for reform helps to spark a serious discussion of these issues among Muslims themselves, I will consider it a success. Not all of this violence is explicitly motivate...
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Bill Kerr: a new inconvenient truth
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Sunday, March 22, 2015. A new inconvenient truth. President Obama is wrong when he links climate change to extreme weather events. Roger Pielke jnr gave expert testimony to the US Senate that hurricanes have declined by 20% since 1900. In response a Democrat senator, Raul Grijalva, has launched an investigation into him as a paid dupe of the oil and gas companies. Pielke's new book, The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change. The witch hunt against Pielke jnr is documented here. I’...
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Bill Kerr: social forms and the individual
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Thursday, March 26, 2015. Social forms and the individual. All the things you don't know you don't know. I thought I had understood capitalism, that the bosses owned the means of production and the workers had no option but to sell their labour to the boss. There were rich people, poor people and class struggle. But I didn't know about Value as a social form and so my real understanding of capitalism was deficient. 8220;No scientist to date has yet discovered what natural qualities make definite proporti...
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Educational Technology: April 2010
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Friday, April 16, 2010. EDUC 8845 Module 4 Blog - Connectivist. Digital tools which best facilitate learning for me include Google Search, Mail, Documents and Calendar, I utilize bubbl.us for concept mapping, as well as the New Technology Network’s resources, project libraries, and staff support tools. Wednesday, April 14, 2010. EDUC 8845 Module 3 Blog - Collaboration. I do indeed believe that humans have a basic instinct to interact and work as a group. This is the basis of tribes and cultures. Even thi...
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Dorothea Nelson's Blog: September 2012
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012. Do Theories Influence What We Think and Do? States that “Learning theory, like politics, is full of isms: constructivism, behaviourism, cognitivism and now a new one, connectivism”, and asks, “What should we do about these isms? Are they a useful guide to what to think and do? How often have you read a theory and said “Aha”, or tried a new approach and gotten through to a student? I like Kerr’s. The cognitivist’ conception of the brain as a computer underlines the fac...