I’ve read two different concepts in several blogs this week that I think are related: collective intelligence and the levels of dialogue happening through blogs. First, Kathy Sierra wrote about the difference between “collective intelligence” and the “dumbness of crowds.” Essentially, groups working towards consensus and trying to keep all parties happy aren’t innovative: they
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Stephen Downes linked to a post by Wendy Wickham entitled “You just had to be there.” Wendy has a great picture of something made during a synchronous learning session that doesn’t make any sense to anyone outside the community who created it. Wendy says this: “In a synchronous learning community, in many instances, the process
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This post is sponsored by the ScienceSoft learning experience platform, but all opinions are my own. When I tell people I work in online education, people usually respond in one of a few ways: They have no idea what I’m talking about. They feel the need to insist that online education will never replace “real”
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I am currently developing a course about using the read/write Web in K-12 classrooms. My hope is that this course will let teachers learn how to use tools like blogs, wikis, podcasts, and social bookmarking to help students collaborate and learn more effectively. However, it seems a bit hypocritical of me to encourage others to
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