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On Cheating
In the introductory video to #rhizo14 Dave Cormier talks about cheating and asks how this might be usefully applied to learning. He defines cheating as taking an answer that is not mine, and discusses in a bit more detail some … Continue reading
#rhizo14 week 1
I’ve signed up for a rhizomatic course about rhizomatic learning and I’m loving it so far. The first video talked about “cheating” and collaboration, and immediately sparked thoughts about Jigsaw learning (which readers may remember is a technique I use in my … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Rhizomes
Tagged collaboration, D&G, Dave Cormier, Deleuze, Jigsaw, MOOC, Rhizome
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The Spirit of the Age?
I’ve just spent a while creating a blog post for my official uni blog only to find that the ability to embed YouTube is not enabled on the site 🙁 I was already grumbly and mumbling about corporate capitalists and … Continue reading
Another blog
Recently my University set up an official blog for Uni staff. I haven’t quite worked out how to use it yet (as in, what I should be posting), but it makes sense to have something a bit more official for … Continue reading
Quack quack
Recently I became a great aunty (yeah, I know, I’ve always been a great aunty, ask my nephews and nieces, haha). Luke and Sarah love ducks, so I made this wee hat and bootees for Willow. Doesn’t she look sweet?
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Spies Are Reading My Blog (David Rovics)
I’ve just downloaded David Rovics‘ latest album Spies Are Reading My Blog and am listening to it while Niall makes pizza. There’s some great tracks, so far the title track is my favourite. I subscribe to David, which means I’ve agreed to … Continue reading
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Duck-rabbit
I have a very talented friend called Katy, who studied Philosophy at Crichton campus and heard about Wittgenstein’s duck-rabbit. Here is it from the original Philosophical Investigations II, XI (p194). Wittgenstein is talking about the difference between “seeing”and “seeing as”, (or … Continue reading
Dichotomies
I like making lists, and I also like making tables. I know that the world’s not really black and white, but I taking an idea and looking at it in two ways – I like dichotomies. I’ve been playing around … Continue reading
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Rules for writing well
I’ve just finished Michael Billig’s book Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences and enjoyed it very much. The overall message of the book is that writers (he says social scientists, but I think this applies more widely … Continue reading
Book Lists
I’m an inveterate list maker, oft in my head, sometimes on paper, and I have a new project. A friend posted a couple of pictures to my Facebook feed, one of a book bath, one of a library, and they’ve … Continue reading
