February 5th is Digital Learning Day! Fun, I know. There’s a pledge you can take, by clicking a link. I took it, I know.1 There’s even an official avatar. How many days do you know that have their own avatar? Now, I appreciate a good party as much as the next guy, but why do we really …
Tag: Learning
Increased Perspective on Vulnerability
Stephen Downes continues the Learning Is Vulnerability discussion by agreeing with much I’ve written, stopping just short of the “eating is vulnerability” comparison I chose to include. Draper writes, “Learning is no more vulnerability than eating might be.” Quite so. But every time we eat, we are vulnerable. Not ‘vulnerable’ in the sense-of-community kumbaya sense. …
The (Im)Perfect Human Side of Blogging
I love this post by Dean Shareski, but not for the reasons you might think. What begins as a somewhat rushed (?) rant about the digital divide becomes clarified in the comments, and eventually solidifies into a strong argument against our common language habits associated “the achievement gap.” I love that the post is imperfect, …
When Learning Isn’t Vulnerability
I’ve sat on this post for several days now, because I empathize with the sense of fear that George Siemens described two weeks ago: When I first started blogging, I had a sense of fear with every post (“did that sound stupid?”), loss of sleep soul-searching when a critical comment was posted, and envy when peers posted …