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	<title>Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Edu-RSS Edubloggers</title>
	<link>http://www.downes.ca</link>
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	<dc:creator>Stephen Downes, stephen@downes.ca</dc:creator>
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   <title>Stunted</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[In this New York Times article, David Brooks describes the relationship between China&#8217;s ruling elite and its school system. The &#8216;phenomenal feats of memorization to learn the Chinese characters&#8217; are symptomatic of the ends and means of Chinese education - churning out a class of like-minded wonks to run its bureaucracy. This, he says, is a process that has [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286417<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Re-thinking language instruction</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286418</link>
   <description><![CDATA[  By the time we finished school, 90% of my generation hated the mandatory Irish lessons. Hundreds of thousands of kids (aka language learning machines) failed to master even rudimentary communication in the language we had studied for years. If the teachers had set out to kill the language, I&#8217;m not sure they could have done it more effectively. [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286418<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>What’s happening at the Economist?</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286419</link>
   <description><![CDATA[I love the Economist, but it ran an incredibly weak article today - False Eastern promise whose sub-heading tells us that the &#8216;craze for teaching Chinese may be a misguided fad&#8217;. The craze for teaching Chinese may just be a fad? May be a fad? 
Of course it&#8217;s possible that this is a fad, but what precisely is that saying? There&#8217;s [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286419<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>A bit more Joyce</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286420</link>
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I thought I&#8217;d follow up on my last post with a little more about HCE, or Here Comes Everybody. To my mind he is not a generic &#8216;everyman&#8217;, but represents in fact, a complex alternative to it. As the newcomer on the scene he is suspect. In fact, the entire narrative of Finnegan&#8217;s Wake evolves [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286420<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Here comes everybody</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286421</link>
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I&#8217;m learning more and learning faster than would have been possible 5 years ago. The participative web (aka, web 2.0) makes this happen. The new-found capacity to participate through the web has put learning on steroids, and ushered in a new kind of empowerment of the individual. Let me see if I can explain my [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286421<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Confucius meets web 2.0</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286413</link>
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Both ChinesePod and SpanishPod come under the banner of Praxis Language. The Praxis vision is pretty radical: re-formulating how online language learning is done. (We, er, don&#8217;t lack ambition.) 
Recently, Praxis were asked by National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOCFL) to develop a web strategy for their Confucius Institutes. (NOCFL are also known as han ban.) We have [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286413<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Designing conversations</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286414</link>
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By looking at speech &#8216;beyond the level of the sentence&#8217;, discourse analysis reveals some of the conventions that underlie it. Speakers use conversational structures to engage listeners, create cohesion,  and facilitate comprehension. As we talk, we subtly adjust the lexis and structures in accordance with roles, status, and context. There&#8217;s a lot going on under the surface of your average chat.
Most conversations have a beginning, middle, and [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286414<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Skype, social networks and language learning</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286415</link>
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There&#8217;s lots of start-ups in the language learning space, mostly variations on the social networking and Skype models. Most of them aren&#8217;t very good though, and many miss the point entirely. What, imho, are they doing wrong?
 Medium and message
These are early days for Learning 2.0. There&#8217;s  still an overall lack of understanding of how new media enable learning. Designing content for a podcast, cellphone, or web application is a new [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286415<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Linear and non-linear learning</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286416</link>
   <description><![CDATA[  Obligatory pic of horrific looking 19th cen school that should add impact to the post. 
In a previous post, I talked about what language learning 2.0 meant to me. In the coming weeks and months I&#8217;ll try to elaborate  through examples from projects that I&#8217;ve been involved with. I begin with a description of a key concept in learning 2.0 - its non-linear nature. I&#8217;ll try [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286416<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>ChinesePod, the New York Times, and the future</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286412</link>
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 The subject of online language learning has been in the news, particularly since Live Mocha received funding some weeks ago. Yesterday, my company, Praxis Language  appeared alongside them, in the New York Times (the same story appeared in the International Herald Tribune today). 
There is a deeper undercurrent to this story. It concerns how the future of online language learning is being played [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=590" class="stealth">Here Comes Everybody</a>, February 26, 2008] <TOPIC>286412<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Revisiting CMC research 20 years on</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286411</link>
   <description><![CDATA[In the first week of our course, H809, we asked students to read quite an old paper from 1989 by Hiltz and Meinke &#8216;Teaching Sociology in a Virtual Classroom&#8217; (Hiltz, S.R. and Meinke, R. (1989) ‘Teaching sociology in a virtual classroom’, Teaching Sociology, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 431–46.). We then asked them to reflect on [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=589" class="stealth">e4innovation.com</a>, February 25, 2008] <TOPIC>286411<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>links for 2008-02-22</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286406</link>
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Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0  (EDUCAUSE Review) &#124; EDUCAUSE CONNECT
John Seely Brown
(tags: e)


Welcome to the Course! « Blogs, Wikis, and New Media
David Wiley&#8217;s blog course
(tags: web2.0 blog courses)


H809 tags


Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Online Storage, Access Documents &#038; Files Anywhere, Backup Data, Send Files
(tags: [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=589" class="stealth">e4innovation.com</a>, February 25, 2008] <TOPIC>286406<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Harnessing web 2.0 for learners</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286407</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Great summary of ideas from George Siemens on using social networking to improve the learner experience. The first is 
 Create a class blog&#8230;have students blog   
We have got students blogging as part of our new H809 course and it&#8217;s great to see their posts and comments on each others&#8217; blogs. I have set up a folder of RSS feed alerts with [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=589" class="stealth">e4innovation.com</a>, February 25, 2008] <TOPIC>286407<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Learning in the near future</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286408</link>
   <description><![CDATA[What will learning look like in a few years time? How will new technologies transform learning? These are questions which have probably always been around to some extent in education, but have become more prevalent in recent years since the Internet began to have a significant impact and with the recent changes due to the [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=589" class="stealth">e4innovation.com</a>, February 25, 2008] <TOPIC>286408<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>What’s the point of conferences?</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286409</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Now there is a question for you to mull over!! We have set up a conference blog for Edmedia 2008 (there is still time to submit something! its in Vienna, got great keynotes, good line up of topics and papers&#8230;. not that i am trying to do a selling job or anything!!!) and I&#8217;ve posed this question  so [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=589" class="stealth">e4innovation.com</a>, February 25, 2008] <TOPIC>286409<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>View from the programme level</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286410</link>
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I spent two days last week at an all programme meeting for the HE Academy pathfinders programme in York- can&#8217;t resist including a view of York Minster which I took from my window!  All 28 pathfinder projects we present, along with the critical friends (as I&#8217;ve mentioned before I am the critical friend [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=589" class="stealth">e4innovation.com</a>, February 25, 2008] <TOPIC>286410<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Edmedia blog</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286403</link>
   <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had some interesting replies to my question &#8216;What&#8217;s the point of conferences?&#8217;. &#8216;Beer&#8217; was Martin&#8217;s suggestion - thanks for that Martin ;-) Sarah came up with a nice summary which I think will resonate with alot of people!   
For me, it is about networking - finding people who can help me or I can help - opportunities [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=589" class="stealth">e4innovation.com</a>, February 25, 2008] <TOPIC>286403<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>Evil blackboard indeed</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286404</link>
   <description><![CDATA[I was shocked to hear about the outcome of the Blackboard vs. Desire2Learn case via Terry Anderson&#8217;s blog. To be honest I can&#8217;t believe Blackboard won. I remember at the time that the section on e-learning in wikipedia expanded rapidly as the community rushed to document the &#8216;true&#8217; origins and history of the area. It was a great [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=589" class="stealth">e4innovation.com</a>, February 25, 2008] <TOPIC>286404<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>What’s in a name…</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286405</link>
   <description><![CDATA[I am sometimes bought to task about using the phrase &#8216;Learning Design&#8217; to describe some of the research we are doing. Some argue &#8216;Designing for learning&#8217; is more appropriate, others say its really about &#8216;teacher design&#8217;, others still argue there is no distinction with the well established area of &#8216;Instructional Design&#8217;. So I was interested [...] [From: <a style="color: #0fad0f; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=589" class="stealth">e4innovation.com</a>, February 25, 2008] <TOPIC>286405<END_TOPIC>  
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   <title>links for 2008-02-23</title>
   <link>http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/edurss02.cgi?rd=286402</link>
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edutagger - K-12 Social Bookmarking / Popular
(tags: Learning_design)


bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online


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