Examining Stephen Downes’ 2006 essay “Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge” – part 1
Link to Frontline PBS program “Digital Nation”, and a neurological study of belief – both using FMRI brain scanning.
Seinfeld’s Kramer demonstrates inefficiency in the PLE paradigm
A repudiation of the PLE as, in reality, an IIFE – Impersonal Information Friending Environment
On a preliminary ISD model development effort informed by ADDIE, McLuhan, and Wilden
On re-reading Marshall McLuhan’s “Understanding Media” to understand more about Distance Learning: Hot and Cool media, Face-to-face learning and Distance Learning compared to pornography (again).
On re-reading Marshall McLuhan’s “Understanding Media” to understand more about Distance Learning, and learning though games.
About using games in education, and conflicting messages about the benefits and risks of involving children in gaming, and a 4-year GPA game experiment.
On analog and digital communication theory, as proposed in Anthony Wilden’s article, “Analog and Digital Communication-On Negation, Signification and Meaning” – a prelude to forming a diagnostic tool for evaluating Distance Learning.
An exercise in comparing and contrasting Distance Learning and Pornography, Part 2
An exercise in comparing and contrasting Distance Learning and Pornography.
Some comments on having read half of Yong Zhao & Kenneth A. Frank’s paper on an ecological model for technology integration into classrooms.
On “feeling taught”, the ecology of face-to-face learning as rooted in evolution, and “my learning” as sentience similar to “my instincts” or “my love”.
On how being grilled as an employee in a high-pressure work environment has affected my learning ethic, my cynicism about hostile teachers, and why distance learning makes me panic.
Kaltura falls on its face. And I am having a manic obsession with hating on Distance Learning.
A new series of blog posts featuring Kaltura tools.
Here is a system for providing simultaneous views of a lecture and a wide range of view of other content in camera range. The OpenEyA system allows the viewer to select a range of the recorded image, and then focus in close-up to that range to view something like a blackboard or PPT presentation.
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A TED Talk by Beau Lotto. Refers to some cognitive aspects of perception, relative to environment.
A new series of blog posts featuring Kaltura tools.
An interview with Assistive Technologist, Carl Geiger of Tech Abilities inc.