Tag Archives: Learning

Retreating on the Grades

By alex | Published: 8/21/2011

Heading into a new semester and assembling the syllabi (well, one–the other, once again this term, is in the hands of the students), I’ve decided to give up on my short-lived “no grades” policy. At least nominally. What happened? Well, at least pedagogically, I was fine with it. To recap, I was concerned that students [...]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged Academic grading in the United States, badges, Bell curve grading, Curricula, Education in the United States, Education reform, Evaluation methods, Grade, grading, online programs, Paper Chase | 9 Comments

Run of Everything

By alex | Published: 12/20/2010

When asked about where the Camiroi playgrounds could be found: Oh, the whole world. The children have the run of everything. To set up specific playgrounds would be like setting up a table-sized aquarium in the depths of the ocean. It would really be pointless. - RA Lafferty, “Primary Education of the Camiroi”

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Web Education in Schools

By alex | Published: 11/16/2010

Great talk by Anna Debenham at Mozilla Drumbeat in Barcelona a couple weeks ago…

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Mozilla Drumbeat: Enter the Lizard

By alex | Published: 11/16/2010

Who knew so much could be packed into so few hours. I’ve spent the last week burrowing out from things that piled up while I was in Barcelona at the Mozilla Drumbeat festival, an event dedicated to creating a learning web. Over this period, some things have marinated a bit, and so this is not [...]

Posted in Research, Teaching, Technology | Also tagged barcelona, DML, drumbeat, mozilla | 2 Comments

Free Range Assessment

By alex | Published: 8/5/2010

Over the last few months I’ve been keeping a close eye on the development of the (Mozilla and P2PU) School of Webcraft. (Here’s a 103 second introduction.) One reason for this is obvious: I’m interested in how people learn to produce content for the web, and I am interested in teaching using the open web [...]

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Networked Teaching

By alex | Published: 5/6/2010

Abstract for my “Internet Research 11.0″ paper, to be presented this coming October… Networked Teaching: Institutional Changes to Support Personal Learning Networks Much of the educational literature of late has made a marked shift to the perspective of the individual learner at the center of a network of learning resources in the form of other [...]

Posted in Research, Teaching | Also tagged augmented learning, learning network, Learning philosophy | 1 Comment

Shifted Pace

By alex | Published: 6/23/2009

Got an IM from someone checking in a few weeks back. He had gathered that my work had “changed pace.” I wondered what that meant, and he suggested that I had slowed down. Now, I am naturally lazy–a trait I am trying to more actively cultivate, but I gather he had figured that because I [...]

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