Category Archives: Learning
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Rhizo15
To conclude the Rhizo15 learning experience, Dave Cormier prompts all participants to collectively create artefacts and explore or create a ‘practical guide’ to rhizomatic learning. What is a ‘guide’? Is it a person or a thing? I recently purchased a ‘guide to gardening’ – … Continue reading
Part 3: Why have a PLC?
Your PLC will support the process and product of your learning. Subject, need, practice or inquiry shapes your PLC. If you need to extend your own learning on a subject area or topic, find people who are doing work in those … Continue reading
Part 1: What’s in your PLE?
Within higher educational spaces the ‘how and where’ learning occurs can vary dramatically. In physical learning environments, the places and spaces where you spend time and conduct your teaching and learning may or may not include a private office, current technologies, elements of … Continue reading
You Are Not Alone
When you step into the classroom you are not alone. As the teacher, you may feel alone. You may be the only one in the teaching role, but you are not alone. You bring into this teaching and learning space … Continue reading
From Squirrels to Rhizomes: An intro to #rhizo15
There’s a humorous statement that’s made around here that when you get sidetracked from something, you say “squirrel”. It’s reminiscent of what happens to dogs when they are out for a walk. Every squirrel catches their attention. Movement of a … Continue reading
We are not algorithms!
Last time I checked, I teach in a decidedly human way. And my students are spectacularly human in their reactions to my teaching. Their learning is uniquely their own in a very human process. Together, this combination of student+teacher is … Continue reading
Getting it Wrong
I have not failed. I have found ten thousand ways that do not work. Thomas Edison I’ve made mistakes. Lots of them. In my journey to become a more fluent user of digital technologies I’ve had to learn the hard … Continue reading
Five Flames 4 Learning 