Amoebas and not arrows: trajectories and multimemberships In terms of our learning and identity and motivation, we are all amoebas and not arrows. We push on all sides, some more …
Design Adjustments: Broadening Community of Practice; focusing on trajectories, or peripheral movements
I have just moved on to the main part of my research study after having completed the pilot study and pilot chapter for the thesis. I perhaps naively thought it …
Engaging with Artifacts for Future Design and Past Reflection; Pinterest & 20 year anniversaries
My world is now about theory, media, and learning as a result informally of my general scattershot interests and formally of my doctoral studies. I am not saying this focus …
Vygotsky’s theoretical construct as city: Life is a constant feeling of effervescence
I am knee-deep in the normal rounds of doctoral reading that someone with any remote connection to the liberal arts, education, or even just doctoral school is bound to read. …
The Expanse of Cognitive Real Estate: Non-Zero Sum Games and Kings of Infinite Space
In the last few posts (here, here, and here), I have been exploring the mysterious terrains of the future and how that future can be structured. I have attempted to …
MOOC Theory: Engagement with mobile learners in developing regions
John Traxler posed two questions to Twitter the other day that have had me thinking for a bit on the appropriateness of MOOCs as a vehicle for (learning about) mobile …