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Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and education: An introduction to the philosophy of education. New York. The Macmillan Company.
This book could be mined extensively for any topic. These are just a handful that are somewhat relevant to the paper I’m writing. I’ll probably revise this post later with more nuggets. 1916…
Society exists through a process of [...]
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De Kerckhove, D., & Dewdney, C. (1997). The skin of culture: Investigating the new electronic reality. London. Kogan Page.
With virtual realities upon us, we may find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between our “natural” selves and the electronic extensions. Page 177.
The environment has ceased to be a neutral container for our activities. It is made [...]
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Whitaker, R. (1999). The end of privacy: How total surveillance is becoming a reality. New York. New Press.
…the principle of the panopticon could and should be extended to various bounded sites of human activity, from asylums to the eighteenth-century equivalent of welfare institutions, to workplaces, to schools. Page 33.
The gathering of social statistics permits an [...]
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How’s this for a first kick at the cat? Huge gaps, but I’m trying to avoid writing a 200 page definition full of acronyms and words requiring further definition…
Personally, I’m not a fan of the word “cyberinfrastructure” as it seems to make people glaze over in its made-up-wordness. But, it appears to have some legs. [...]
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Downes, S. (2005). E-learning 2.0. eLearn Magazine. pp. 1-6
In a nutshell, what was happening was that the Web was shifting from being a medium, in which information was transmitted and consumed, into being a platform, in which content was created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along. And what people were doing with the Web was [...]
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Mott, J. (2010). Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network. EDUCAUSE Quarterly. 33 (1) pp. 1-9
It’s a really good article, framing some ideas around an Open Learning Network. Definitely worth a read. Much of it isn’t a good fit for what I’m looking for because it’s tied tightly to the OLN concept and examples.
While [...]
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Cambpell, G. (2009). New Horizons: A personal cyberinfrastructure. EDUCAUSE review. 44 (5) pp. 58-59.
The article is intended to be used as a manifesto for institutional change, rather than a research-based paper. Some of it is a bit hyped, but the foundation is sound.
In building that personal cyberinfrastructure, students not only would acquire crucial technical skills [...]
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Sommer, R. (1969). Personal Space: The behavioral basis of design. Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs.
We are told that classrooms should have straight rows of chairs so that the children will face the teacher, prisoners should be kept in separate jail cells, college students should have roommates, and park benches should be heavy and I destructable so that [...]
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McLoughlin, C. & Lee, M. (2007). Social software and participatory learning: Pedagogical choices with technology affordances in the Web 2.0 era. ICT: Providing choices for learners and learning. Proceedings ascilite Singapore 2007
Somewhat breathless about the Web 2.0 hype.
Social software tools such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, media sharing applications and social bookmarking utilities are [...]
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Klamma, R., Chatti, M., Duval, E., & Hummel, H. (2007). Social software for life-long learning. Educational Technology & Society (2007) vol. 10 (3) pp. 72-83
Abstract:
Life-long learning is a key issue for our knowledge society. With social software systems new heterogeneous kinds of technology enhanced informal learning are now available to the life-long learner. Learners outside [...]
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