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 [...]


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 [...]


Speaking of Polarization

06.05.10 Posted in Media, Moxley, Social Media by Shelley

UPDATE: The principal of the school has decided NOT to whiten the faces…Surely the pressure of the social web enabled this principal to stand up for his school in a community where he likely has very little power. See the video: I woke up this morning to this article about a community that is attempting [...]


Prediction Markets

06.04.10 Posted in Moxley, Social Media by Shelley

Last year, I heard an Educause podcast about prediction markets.The podcast described an initiative to harness the power of the collective to make predictions about trends in technology and learning. The podcast is accompanied by this Word document that describes prediction markets and introduces the NITLE initiative. I’m bringing this up because it is a [...]