Tag Archives: Kathleen-Gilroy

What Steven Johnson Really Said About Howard Dean

By Michael Feldstein | July 26, 2004

Kathleen reminds us that Steven Johnson himself supports her analogy of the Dean campaign as an example of emergent learning. “In fact”, she tells us, “Johnson was quoted in Wired magazine as saying that ‘Dean is a system running for President.’”
Except that, as far as I can tell, Johnson didn’t exactly say that–at least not [...]

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Emergent Emergence

By Michael Feldstein |

Godfrey Parkin blogs:
In the E-literate blog, Michael Feldstein has recently had a couple of jabs at the burgeoning interest in emergent learning, as enthusiastically promoted by Jay Cross and others. I suspect that he’s overthinking it and just doesn’t get it.
If so, it wouldn’t be the first time. However, at the risk of compounding the [...]

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Fingernails on Blackboard

By Michael Feldstein | July 15, 2004

Here’s a nice informational post on the pitfalls of Blackboard as well as various Open Source and home-grown alternatives (including using blogs as an ad hoc course management system) from Kathleen Gilroy. The analogy I often make with Blackboard is to a classroom where all the seats are bolted to the floor. How the room [...]

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