Posted in 3255, 3254, 3253, 3252, 3256, 3257, 3260, 3259, 3258, 3251, 3250, and, social, lines, the, a, 2849, 3249, 3248, 3247, General on Feb 13th, 2008 Comments Off
It occurs to me that the metaphor of “network” may be holding me (us?) back. I like to think about social networks, network effects, high-speed networks, and so forth. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) But the metaphor conveys a set of telegraphic connections, criss-crossing lines with nodes at the connection points, add-a-beads, point-to-point […]
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Posted in collared, lively afterwards, thimble full, talking, department, sparked, talk, dewey, delivered, fascinating, lucid, colloquium, keen, today, john, social, Research, Education, and, tom, mary, washington, featured, fallace, General on Nov 14th, 2007 Comments Off
Today’s Social Research Colloquium at Mary Washington featured Tom Fallace of our Education Department talking about his research on John Dewey. I know a mere thimble-full about Dewey and was keen to learn more, and Tom certainly delivered: it was a fascinating and lucid talk and sparked many ideas and questions in my mind. The […]
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Posted in harrisonburg, keynote, speaker, virginia, honored, conference, theme, october, connections, the, learning, environments, social, making, coming, General on Sep 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
I’m honored to be the keynote speaker at this conference, coming up October 4th and 5th in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Conference theme is “Social Learning Environments: Making Connections.” My keynote talk is on “The Digital Imagination.” Here’s the abstract:
For decades, higher education has run faster and faster to keep up with accelerating technological change. We’ve run […]
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