tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post4633942666873148314..comments2024-01-24T20:19:07.001-08:00Comments on touches of sense...: Summer holiday.sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-50267278211573439992014-10-25T02:00:21.280-07:002014-10-25T02:00:21.280-07:00Maybe the bus is not the best possible picture, ma...Maybe the bus is not the best possible picture, maybe we could think of the circus. The circus tours from village to village. People come to the circus with their own means. Some of them, some might be so enthralled with the circus they join the crew or set up their own circus. The type of circus will depend on the resources of each group, there might be some fixed circuses some street jugglers etc. Might blog on this - the picture is growing on me.sensor63https://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-55414339185310120932014-10-24T12:55:08.405-07:002014-10-24T12:55:08.405-07:00I love this analogy - I can see my self on this bu...I love this analogy - I can see my self on this bus (and getting off and back on), but how do we get people on to the bus who have always gone by train or car or bike? What is it about this bus that entices them to come aboard?<br /><br />One reason might be the destination - how is that clearly displayed/portrayed?<br />It might be the journey (type of and route taken), but again how is that made clear? Was there a brochure we could hand out, and why get on a bus when travelling in the car with your own music & home comforts around you?<br /><br />Me? I like getting the bus, I like taking different routes, but others are not so keen. But, once they get on the bus I am sure they would love it. Firstly how do we get them to the bus stop & then how do we get them on the bus?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14372166375756544594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-39912638015092967972014-10-24T12:48:42.885-07:002014-10-24T12:48:42.885-07:00Thanks Laura! I think the next post speaks of what...Thanks Laura! I think the next post speaks of what you are raising here - content-process.sensor63https://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-11604294977990709502014-10-24T08:19:04.237-07:002014-10-24T08:19:04.237-07:00Thanks Frances. I was more struck by the bus than ...Thanks Frances. I was more struck by the bus than by Cliff Richard, but now you come to mention it - I am open to proposal as to the identity of Cliff Richard.sensor63https://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-53650349527757500022014-10-24T03:00:07.776-07:002014-10-24T03:00:07.776-07:00I am only tangentially connnected to #ccourses and...I am only tangentially connnected to #ccourses and so I read this post through the lens of #rhizo14. Three comments/questions:<br />I loved Gardner's comment "There's more than a shared journey-that-is-the-destination. " It has helped me think some more about the nature of 'learning' interactions in different spaces and what remains from them (Cheshire cat's smile?)<br />Then I realised that the post was tagged #ccourses and not #rhizo14 and I reread it completely differently :-0<br />Lastly, I had Dave Cormier pegged as Cliff Richards - so who is the Cliff Richard of #ccourses?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-82478792443944865062014-10-23T09:06:17.581-07:002014-10-23T09:06:17.581-07:00Thank you Gardner for stretching your legs here.
...Thank you Gardner for stretching your legs here. <br /><br />Random tickets picked up off floor.<br />Learning-yearning-earning<br /><br />Content-discontent<br />Monologue-dialogue<br />Context-discontext<br />Co-action-transaction-reaction<br />Delivery-reception-lost in transit.<br /><br />Thank you for your part in my sketching.<br /><br />More pictures to follow.<br /><br />Simon<br /><br />sensor63https://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-76612499524742537212014-10-23T07:08:49.146-07:002014-10-23T07:08:49.146-07:00I think "crazy-gang" is now going to hav...I think "crazy-gang" is now going to have to be part of my active vocabulary. I love that!<br /><br />And Gardner, your comment and Bill's <a href="http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2014/10/learningteaching-styles-connected.html" rel="nofollow">discussion of same</a> at his blog (did you see that? he posted part of it at the forum too... but I am so glad I read his blog) are helping me to think through something that has been simmering on a back burner (to borrow Terry's metaphor) in my teaching life for a while: balance between content and process.<br /><br />I'll confess that if I look over my academic career as a teacher in past 15 years, I have really ... REALLY ... shifted more and more and more from content to process - but an important part of that process is helping students to FIND CONTENT, content that is really and truly meaningful to them, and also to CREATE CONTENT, building on that meaningful content.<br /><br />So, it's not so much that "togetherness is all there is" (I obviously spend hours and hours of time very much alone and on my own exploring weirdo content that I obsess about, obsessions I actually don't expect or even need anybody else to share with me) ... but I think I have concluded that top-down content is so in danger of failing (i.e. it can so easily end up being perceived as meaningless by the audience) that I would prefer not to take that risk, and instead to find a process where students are exploring content in a more open-ended kind of way, where part of that process is their continual estimation of whether that content is - OR IS NOT - meaningful to them.<br /><br />I'm not sure I have explained that very clearly here ... and it's not something I have really tried to explain in this way before. So, I see a blog post brewing, thanks to you and Bill and Simon here. <br /><br />This whole Connected Courses thing has really been prodding me to think about new things in new ways... often things that were just below the surface but which needed a push or a pull to come to consciousness.<br /><br />Thanks to everybody for pushes and pulls!Laura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-88334435204885214342014-10-23T06:38:05.765-07:002014-10-23T06:38:05.765-07:00Wonderful on many levels. Deeply wonderful.
And a...Wonderful on many levels. Deeply wonderful.<br /><br />And also troubling, in ways I'm not sure I can articulate well. Maybe:<br /><br />This course of study has to be about more than us. The campfire should be the glow of ideas and learning around which a community has gathered. There's more than a shared journey-that-is-the-destination. More than trip activities. There's learning. Awakening. Reading and thoughtful responses (the "medieval" part I don't want to lose, but which the web can augment). The seminar where seeds are planted. <br /><br />I understand and in many respects admire, even adore the vision in this post. I feel lucky and grateful to have read it. I just have a hard time with the idea that togetherness itself is all there really is. My old notions that new learning can change the world for the better die hard. The hashtag (our magic bus?) is not the learning.<br /><br />No, still not quite right, but a beginning perhaps. Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13298202257401928048noreply@blogger.com