Learning Complexity

I made some rather large claims in my last post about ethics being at the heart of the rhizome, woven into the very fabric of reality, which...

So in my last post I introduced the idea that engagement of complex spaces such as in cMOOCs requires ethical choices. We must define the op...

I've just written two things that have left me dissatisfied, and both of them had to do with ethics. The first was a long comment on Fra...

The second slippery aspect of the question  do we know all of Reality  refers to how we conceive knowledge. If knowledge is something consci...

Okay, so I enjoyed the conversation about rhizomatic education over at Christina Hendricks' blog, You're the Teacher . In the conver...

A fourth concept that Morin discusses in The Reform of Thought  is the system, or organization. If I understand Morin correctly, then he mea...

I've been thinking of boundaries as included middles, or zones of engagement, which transcend the separation of entities into discrete u...

A second characteristic to emerge from thinking of boundaries as included middles is circular causality, or the feedback loop. In The Reform...

The included middle  of Lupasco and Nicolescu gives me a convenient handle for understanding Edgar Morin's concept of the dialogic , whi...

I want to talk more about defining from the middle-out rather than from the out-in, as this change in vantage changes the relationship betwe...

I said yesterday that a definition is about the least you can say about something. My wife and I had friends over today, and the talk turned...

Sometimes you follow a line of thought like a crack in the ice, excited to see where it goes but also wondering if all break-throughs are su...

Yesterday, I tried to explain why I think that Connectivism may be guilty of focusing too much on the network and not enough on the individu...

In a recent exchange on Dave Cormier's post Embracing Uncertainty and the strange problem of habituation , Frances Bell challenged that ...

I just watched the Ed Tech Weekly interview with Dave Cormier about rhizomatic learning , and by the end of the hour, I found myself chafe...

I'm still troubled by some of the claims that James Berlin makes in Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class , but I think I prefer to...