Learning trajectories and multimemberships: amoebas and not arrows
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 than others. We do not follow straight lines towards predetermined targets. We are gelatinous and not rigid. I am on to the data analysis and […]
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 was going to be a perfunctory exercise, that pilot project, but truth be told it revealed quite a bit in terms of emergent themes and […]
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 on theory, media, and learning has been smooth as silk; in particular, the formal part of this equation (the doctoral part) has been at times […]
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. They are like the tattoos of the doctoral student (or artefacts, perhaps), these reading lists. They include the normal Vygostky, Lave and Wenger, Engestrom and […]
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 avoid dystopian predictions of that future, even as such a dark possibility is present. I prefer to wage that battle we wage in society and […]
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 learning in developing regions. I will just put the questions out front and than stumble about trying to determine answers (if they even exist). Either […]