Learning Complexity

The fourth property of complexity that both Taborga and Lawrimore discuss within the context of modern organizations is openness  or, as Law...

In his 2004  Phi Beta Kappan  essay entitled  Thinking Big: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Everything , self-described contrarian e...

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

If Reality is an emergent property of the zone of engagement between the Knower and the Real, then what does that say about education in gen...

I came across a video and a couple of quotes today that illuminated and expanded for me some ideas I've been discussing in #etmooc about...

So does the rhizome bring anything to connectivism that it doesn't already have? I don't really know, but I do know that the rhizome...

In my last post , I said that networking is the lens through which I see most everything , or at least I try. I confess that I still have so...

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

James Zull's book The Art of Changing the Brain  contends that neuroscience can guide our teaching practice by revealing to us how our b...

My good friend Bruce recommended that I read James E. Zull's book The Art of Changing the Brain  (2002), and I'm glad that I followe...

Dave Cormier's post A review of rhizomatic learning in Mendeley  led me to an engaging conversation about definitions, especially a defi...

Like most everyone else for the past six months, I've been thinking about MOOCs (note that on Susan Bainbridge's current  Connectivi...

I've not blogged in over a month, and I have a serious case of disconnection. I'm irritable about it. Really. I'm not so pleasan...

A Sunday School Lesson: The common attitude about Steve Jobs reflects the old view of agency, especially in business: that one person causes...

If agency is the ability to recognize and respond to the surround, then does agency fit with connectivism? Yes. In fact, I can't think o...

I've just finished reading Scott Weingart's Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II , in which Mr. Weingart tries to correct the mis...