Knowledge as Recognition
This is an assignment for a grade 12 philosophy course. Proposition Most theories of knowledge depict knowledge as a type of belief. The idea, for example, of knowledge as ‘justified…
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Constructivism and Eliminative Materialism
A few months ago Fred M Beshears and I discussed Constructivism and Materialism. He compiled the conversation and posted it here. ——————————————–Stephen Downes We don’t reason over perceptions or construct…
Positivism and Big Data
This is an outcome of a conversation with Rita Kop regarding the article The View from Nowhere. She writes, data scientists use their quantitative measure, as positivists do, by putting…
MOOCthink
Responding to Linda Harasim’s comment, here: To Mohsen Saadatmand: there is indeed significant overlap between communities of interest and cMOOCs and the underlying mechanisms are the same. The difference between…
Beyond Assessment ‑ Recognizing Achievement in a Networked World
For those who are on audio, I want to acknowledge Samuel Noekowsky, who just spoke. This talk is basically what he said, except he said it in the French way…
Bader A. Alsaleh – September 17, Riyadh – Summary Notes
Bader A. Alsaleh (Professor, Instructional Design and Technology, King Saud University) @ba_alsaleh On 40 minutes, will present a number of ideas. Why are we interested in social media? What is…
Steve Wheeler – September 17, Riyadh – Notes
The Mayflower Steps. When we talk about the future, we step out into the unknown. Macy’s, in New York. Immigrants couldn’t imagine so many people, buildings so large. They wondered…
Diego Leal – September 12, Pereira – Notes
Diego Leal – Creating online learning networks Think of networks = nides + connections + signals – related to what I said yesterday How to make possible cooperation in online…
Connected Courses
This is a place-holder post to set up syndication for the Connected Courses course.
A Trip to the Bookstore
It has been months – maybe more than a year – since I’ve been in the local bookstore. We only have one in Moncton, an Indigo-Chapters store, at Crystal Palace.…
Beyond Institutions Personal Learning in a Networked World
by Stephen Downes Introduction: What learners Need Sorry, I forgot to turn on the audio recording. That’s how you start a broadcast, with dead air. Thank you very much it’s…
No Paradox Here
John Spencer thinks that education is filled with paradox, and lists a number of sources. I couldn’t help but notice that I didn’t see the paradox in any item on…
The Chinese Test Example
I’m going to quote at some length from David Wiley’s Facebook page to set this up (so you don’t have to go get a Facebook account to read this), and…
Beyond Free ‑ Open Learning in a Networked World
by Stephen Downes Thank you, I have way too much fun with these talks. It shouldn’t be allowed. Thank you very much; it’s a pleasure to be here. This is…
How to Survive Air Travel – For Real
Photo: Wikipedia I’ve travelled quite a bit by air, I enjoy the travel, but agree it can get uncomfortable and frustrating at times. That said, Craig Mod’s advice on Medium…
My Top Tools 2014
I haven’t updated my list for Jane Hart’s overall review for some time now, but it’s worth a revisit. This post is prompted by Harold Jarche’s. 10. Word. This could…
The Facebook Research
The Facebook experiments are actually very clever. The content stream is the presentation of everyone else’s material to an individual user. So, in my content stream, I get stuff from…
The Achievement Gap
Response to Annie Murphy Paul, whose newsletter appeared in my email today, on her article, Technology Is Making Achievement Gaps Bigger. In your email you state “I’d love to get…
Personal Learning: A Set of Three Talks
Here are abstracts for three talks I have planned for July in London, UK. For APT 2014 (8th July, Greenwich) https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/ecentre/apt2014/schedConf/index Beyond Free: Open Learning in a Networked World As…
The Pollution and the Wildlife
Hello, Mr.Downes My name is ———- ——. You can call me Amy. I am 15 years old. I live in Thailand. Now I have a project about the environment. And…