Learning Complexity

It occurs to me that some people may not agree with my characterization of writing, especially in the sense of an actual text or document, a...

I have the opportunity to design a new writing across the curriculum program for college, and I'm interested to see how I might translat...

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...

In an earlier post , I discussed intentionality in the rhizome in response to some comments and questions from Frances Bell. Her questions r...

As I wrote the last post, I had one of those nagging notions that I was leaving something out, that I had not quite said what I needed to sa...

So what happens to the field of writing if we start with the idea that writing is a function of complex networks? One of the first concepts ...

Okay, for the sake of discussion, let's just accept that my last post is correct and that a network view of knowledge is indeed part of ...

I started this post weeks ago, but life happened. I want to continue talking about defining Connectivism. So if we are to avoid a definition...

Well, Thanksgiving here in the US has been most disruptive for me—pleasant, but disruptive. In response to a #change11 discussion about the ...

As I mentioned in my immediately previous post, one of the big challenges to emerge in response to Dave Cormier's presentation of rhizom...

Manuel Castells' book The Rise of the Network Society continues to inform my understanding of a Connectivist rhetoric, though my readin...

I'm reading a new book: Manuel Castells'  The Rise of the Network Society, second edition  (West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)....

In his 1985 essay Inventing the University , Donald Bartholomae explores the struggles of students to join a scholarly community, in large p...

So I read Berlin's 1985 book and found the absence of any mention of the Net a glaring hole in the discussion. What if I read something ...

I've finished reading James Berlin's book Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985 , and perhaps th...

I suppose that I have already begun exploring the implications of Connectivism for rhetoric, so I might was well say so. I do not know if Co...

So on the whole, I like what James Berlin has to say about reality, knowledge, and rhetoric in his article Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writ...

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...

I'm reading James A. Berlin's essay Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class  ( College English . Vol. 50, No. 5 (Sep., 1988), pp...