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53 Critical Thinking, Autonomy

Independent thinking is not only about reflecting, evaluating for truth, synthesizing and associating; ‘Media Literacy Is About Where To Spend Your Trust. But You Have To Spend It Somewhere.’ (Caulfield)

Ungrading, my take

Posted on June 20, 2021 by x28

My take is unprofessional but by a pupil of the 60s.
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Distant Associations

Posted on April 12, 2021 by x28

What kind of knowledge, understanding, and skills is necessary for people, jobs, and society, given that technology takes giant steps to compete with us in ever more aspects? I think it is the ability to come up with an associative connection between distinct areas.
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Dependence

Posted on November 29, 2019 by x28

Stephen Downes’s talk “about a way to redefine ethics” contains a lot that sounds plausible to me. In particular, I liked this: “we learn ethics, but we learn them in such a way that we feel or experience a moral sense, rather than fully formed general principles” (slide 70)
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What is Digital Literacy?

Posted on January 8, 2019 by x28

Responding to this: “What is Digital Literacy? — What impact does digital literacy have on your personal, professional, and spiritual* life? (*However you interpret this.) — Who are you? (context matters) — Licenses”
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Depolarization

Posted on October 5, 2018 by x28

Mike Caulfield speaks out for depolarization, and I think he is right.
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Trust

Posted on February 24, 2018 by x28

I like Mike Caulfield’s post “Media Literacy Is About Where To Spend Your Trust. But You Have To Spend It Somewhere.” and in particular, the term ‘spend’.
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#NRC01PL Choice and Agency

Posted on April 1, 2016 by x28

In today’s hangout, both fathers of Connectivism were unanimous in an important issue: “There is automation that enables choice & human agency & that which doesnt”. I think it is important to distinguish between true control and disguised patronization.
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CritLit2010: Filtering the truth and more

Posted on June 18, 2010 by x28

Similarly like “literacy” is much more than reading and writing, the “critical literacies” required for the internet citizen, are connotated with much more than the critical evaluation of the truth of assertions. Like reading and writing were associated with generally superior intellectual capabilities, the skill of filtering true information is strongly related to more general skills of coping with the abundance, and filtering, and picking the gems.
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Confusion or critical thinking

Posted on January 18, 2009 by x28

“Courseocentrism” impedes the development of critical thinking skills; only the high achieving minority of students are able to synthesize the disparate views on their own, while the struggling majority are confused by the “mixed messages” they get from their different teachers. But I doubt that harmonized content would help much, instead of growing the connections on their own.
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CCK08 Instructional design and Humboldt

Posted on October 20, 2008 by x28

Studying as a preparation for a career in a complex future, is often contrasted to the ideal of education in its own ends. Humboldt’s rather modern ideas have been explained in a presentation this month in Zürich.
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