What do I think? You Choose.

06.18.10 Posted in Media, Moxley, Social Media, education, elearning by Shelley

After reading The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age and “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age,” I was left feeling extremely optimistic and extremely frustrated. There were so many things to like about these reports, yet I found myself raging against many of the points the authors made. The [...]


I Like It!

06.18.10 Posted in Hidden by Shelley

You’ve decided you want to read why I liked the Future of Learning Institutions articles. Ok…well, here you go! Most texts use historical context to demonstrate that technological changes generally benefit humanity; therefore, we should accept them. Davidson and Goldberg use the historical context in a rather unique way. They assert that Education as an [...]


I Dislike it!

06.18.10 Posted in Hidden by Shelley

This post outlines the 5 reasons I disliked the work by Davidson and Goldberg. These specific points of contention come exclusively from the short article “Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.” Well, here they are: The work is, at times, offensive. I’m certain they didn’t mean it to come across that way, but [...]


Share and Share A Lot

06.16.10 Posted in Moxley, Social Media by Shelley

I really loved Lawrence Lessig’s Remix. I especially liked his distinction between me-regarding and thee-regarding motivations. Lessig does a good job of describing why and how we contribute to the open internet. We are obviously in a state of flux. Tensions between for-profit and open (some of which profit and some of which do not) [...]


Open

06.14.10 Posted in Moxley, Social Media by Shelley

I think the highlight of GLS 6.0 was the closing keynote by David Wiley. His talk, Openness and the Future of Education, was enlightening, amusing, and educational, everything a closing keynote should be. As luck should have it, I am also reading some other texts on open-sourcing this week, so I now have a few [...]


On Why I [heart] Henry Jenkins

06.14.10 Posted in Moxley, Social Media, conferences by Shelley

Last week I attended Games, Learning, and Society 6.0, a small conference about learning and games. One of the highlights was the Henry Jenkins keynote (and definitely the David Wiley keynote, which I’ll talk about in another post). In his white paper, Jenkins talks about the new skills required in our emerging participatory culture. Some [...]