Category Archives: eLearning

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Future

Posted on September 22, 2022 by x28

I watched Stephen Downes’s beautiful slides about “The Future of Learning Technology”, and made notes about Agency, what we learn, Creative Experiences, textbooks, apprenticeships, and more. Continue reading →

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Edtech weariness?

Posted on July 7, 2022 by x28

For me, the distinction between my optimism and pessimism about ed tech is rather simple: I believe in simple, low tech tools that are really tools and not patronizing prostheses.
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Teaching Machines

Posted on September 12, 2021 by x28

It is an important book, because without such a deep insight into the history of teacherless instruction, today’s new teaching machines are probably doomed to repeat some crucial errors over again. And it gets the reader inspired to ask themselves.
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Stubborn school administrations

Posted on November 30, 2020 by x28

We have an emergency! We cannot stubbornly stick to the prescribed catalog of stuff.
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Didactic sliders

Posted on August 29, 2020 by x28

I liked the idea of the sliders by Krommer, Klee & Wampfler (in particular, “As much simple technology as possible“), and I reused it in my simple Tool:

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Service interface

Posted on August 7, 2020 by x28

What personalized learning has in common with some productivity apps: a service interface.
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Intelligent textbooks, rejected

Posted on June 25, 2020 by x28

As expected, they rejected the paper, and probably they did not notice how much their response confirmed my observation: Continue reading →

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Is openness addictive?

Posted on August 31, 2010 by x28

Currently I am participating in a German online course that is conducted within a closed group. I am surprised how much I dislike this, and how I miss much of the openness of CCK08.
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Web 2.0 for Teaching

Posted on December 19, 2009 by x28

A new German publication dissects The deployment of Web 2.0 for teaching. A significant argument is that active students are always a minority. I think this is true when diversity and breadth of knowledge is mistaken for plain mass of content.
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Enchanted by the tools

Posted on August 30, 2009 by x28

Lisa Lane has a great advice for the unnecessarily intimidated among faculty: Playing around with online tools oneself, but not getting enchanted by the tools.
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