As we watch the spectacle of the jackasses in the mainstream media blithely continue to pretend to know what they’re talking about after being repeatedly and stunning wrong in the predictions of the U.S. Presidential primary, it’s worthwhile to look in the mirror. Stephen Downes has a good report card up for those of us […]
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The Perils of Prediction
Published by January 9th, 2008 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentMy Personal Feed
Published by December 26th, 2007 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsDespite my apparent reputation for being Mr. Hip-to-the-Scene Blogger Dude, I’m not exactly livin’ la Web 2.0 vida loca. I almost never blog about personal details of my life. I have a Facebook account, but I don’t do much with it. I killed my MySpace account after getting creeped out by “friend” invitations from 13-year-old […]
Blackboard Patent Celebrity Death Match
Published by December 10th, 2006 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Digital Democracy and Notable Posts. 25 CommentsI note with satisfaction that Eben Moglen’s keynote speech [MP3] and debate with Matthew Small [MP3] have already been reported and commented on in a number of places. (See, for example, Seb’s analysis.) This pleases me for two reasons. First, it means we have developed a healthy community response mechanism to make sure we are […]
The Sesame Street Syndrome
Published by November 18th, 2006 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Higher Education and Guest Bloggers. 0 CommentsMichael suggested I might want to comment on issues other than the eMM during this visit to his blog, so today I (Stephen) want to talk about the wider use of technology in the learning environment. A recent article in the Communications of the ACM started me thinking about the issues that face institutions engaging […]
Change
Published by November 15th, 2006 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Higher Education and Guest Bloggers. 4 CommentsIn my first post as a visitor to Michael’s blog I quoted Michael Fullan as encapsulating the motivations behind my research. I’m going to repeat that quote again as this post is going to focus on change:
“The answer to large-scale reform is not to try to emulate the characteristics of the minority who are getting […]
