Dimensions of Sensemaking
The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation from Beth KanterOn Slide 19 of her presentation, Beth Kanter puts sensemaking in the context of four other concepts. The whole set...
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The Age of Sensemaking
In a discussion of why (content) curation is so relevant for education and learning, Robin Good (2012) suggests that, in a situation where there is an abundance of information that needs to be...
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Academic literacies, knowing and sensemaking
Through such notions as digital literacy, digital scholarship and academic literacies, the topics of concern are:transformations in the way knowledge is organised, stored and transmitted; andchanges in...
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On transdisciplinarity
Jacques Ranciere (2006), in discussing an aesthetics of knowledge, defines disciplinary thought in the following terms:"Disciplinary thought says: we have our territory, our objects and the methods...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky on the purpose of education
...although one might question whether there are only two views on the purpose of education, Enlightenment and Indoctrination, and also pose the question how socialisation fits in this schema, other...
View ArticleKnowing...
Male protagonist: "You only know what I want you to."Female protagonist: "I know everything you don't want me to."As if having read Plato's Pharmacy (Derrida, 1981), Joy Williams and John Paul White...
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Distance : Education
We always learn at a distance, even with face-to-face interaction. Language, as speech, writing and 'writing' in the Derridean sense, mediates intellectually. Through drawing on the body, speaking is...
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Radical but effective teaching
Anna Feigenbaum (2012) suggests that, "The ghetto of ‘radical but effective teaching’ is very, very small. But I don’t think that’s the only place to look for teaching resources. In the UK, there’s a...
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Ontology; What exists
The lesson, if such a term can be used, from both Derrida (1982) and Barad (2010), is that if Being is the Being of beings, and beings are thought of as entities, with specific, defined properties, and...
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Re-imagining open education
The workshop Re-imagining open education, published works and social media took place at etcVenues in Hatton Garden on 16 October 2012. The event was organised by the School of Medical Sciences...
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Non-Correspondence
Michael Maria Waldstein notes his disappointment when he listened to a lecture by Norman Gottwald, author of a book about the early tribal history of Israel. Gottwald, Waldstein notes, "interpreted...
View ArticleFused response: hearing lips, seeing voices
When you play this clip for the first time, play it with your eyes closed. Listen to what the man is saying. Now, play it again with your eyes open. Do you hear BA-BA, GA-GA, or DA-DA?Most adults...
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Spatial Practices; World Narratives
Corey Robin (2012), in a review of Daniel Rodgers' book, Age of Fracture, mentions Hannah Arendt's vision of totalitarianism.In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt links political freedom with...
View ArticleCurating your resources?
From managing your references to curating your resources? from allanjparsonsReferences/LinksGadot, Rivki Curate your personal learning environmentWhy curation will transform education and learning
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Earth Music
http://goldenrecord.orgOn the goldenrecord page, first click on the Voyager spacecraft, second on the golden record on the craft, third on the golden disk that appears and finally on the turntable to...
View ArticleChantal Mouffe on agonistic politics and artistic practices #2
Chantal Mouffe, 'Agonistic Politics and Artistic Practices' Audio Recording from GSA on Vimeo.
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