Comments on: Visualizing Open/Networked Teaching: Revisited

By: m_yam (mari yamauchi)

m_yam (mari yamauchi) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:23:58 +0000

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By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:54:02 +0000

Lovely! Just lovely…
On the matter of the goat, every act of creation is also an act of destruction– perhaps that’s one way to best sum it up.
You are a valued colleague and friend.
Marc

By: Sui Fai John Mak

Sui Fai John Mak — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:23:46 +0000

I take your message as part of my learning journey, openness at its best: “It will take many of these imperfect models and raw conversations to create and shape the future of education. Believe in the conversation, throw out your ideas, engage with others, and teach and learn with the passion that this process breeds. This is openness at its very best.”
I am curious to know why the ‘learner” fall. Was it the goat who has four legs who did it? Or was it due to a slip with the learner? Good “slip” for thoughts! Where is the safety harness for the learner? Is it a traggic? I still recalled the famous motto: “Four legs good, two legs bad” from Animal Farm. Is this related?
Thanks for the follow up metaphor, so insightful, and mysterious!
John http://suifaijohnmak.wordpress.com

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:48:50 +0000

@Eric: Thanks for your input. I really do believe that modeling is an essential piece of all of this. I try my best to include all aspects of openness (FlOSS, open content, open access, etc.) in my teaching, although pure adherence to such a philosophy from a technical/administrative/pedagogical level is not always possible. I think for whatever philosophy we adopt, we need to place the needs of the learners first.

@Hadass: On you first comment, I have to say that this is not a framework (if you can call it that) that should be mandated. These are really very personal guidelines that inform my practice. I am not looking to generalize anything, or tell people they should teach this way. That would defeat the entire purpose of this exercise, I think. So, I hope that you do not feel this is some sort of authoritarian exercise. Take what you want from this, or nothing at all.

@Edwebb: Thanks for your feedback. That *is* something I overlooked, and have made the wording change. You’re correct that “metaphors only get us so far”, but my lefty self as finds that “comrade” piece quite appealing … really love the idea of a collective struggle.

@Nancy: Have you looked at Stephen Downes’ ideas on ambient learning? If not, look back a couple of posts (in this blog), I actually recorded the session and this may get you a bit further re: what you seek.

@Ulrich: I guess I am not sure where you are either. I don’t think this is simply about identity seeking/development. Can you expand? You may be onto something, but I do not understand your inquiry.

@Chris: Thanks for the kind words. As you can see from the list of responses here, I can’t do this alone. This is a collective effort, and I am very lucky that I have people that share their ideas here … even when I do not agree. The conversation is key.

@Steve: Very good point, and I have made changes to the wording. I knew this, but slipped on the language, especially when discussing CC0.

@Hadass: Interesting find. Yet another reason to believe in the long history and importance of attribution in the development of human thought and creativity.

By: Hadass

Hadass — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:25:14 +0000

Attribution is extremely important. So important, that the Sages of the Talmud considered it one of the major ways of improving the world (translation from http://www.torah.org/learning/pirkei-avos/chapter6-648b.html#):

For we have learned that anyone who says a statement in the name of the one who said it brings redemption to the world, as the verse says, ‘And Esther said to the King in the name of Mordechai’ (Esther 2:22).

In other words, this scholarly discussion is not new ;-). Happy Purim to anyone in this conversation who happens to be celebrating it.

By: Steve Foerster

Steve Foerster — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:33:46 +0000

Hi Alec. Just to make a pedantic little quibble, there's no such thing as a public domain license. Material can be dedicated to the public domain, but that's not quite the same thing because unlike a license it affects the copyright status of a work. I do agree that even though it's designed to mimic the effects of a public domain dedication, CC0 is still a license, just like other "no rights reserved" licenses such as the WTFPL.