491. Augmented Reality and notes, July 10, 2023
399. #OpenLearning19: Paper-like OERs, March 19, 2019
370. #EL30 Week 2 Clouds and Jupyter, October 30, 2018
334. Tangible Associations, June 01, 2016
306. Paper and User Interface, April 28, 2015
159. Information Design and Manipulation, January 12, 2008
149. Fine-tuned think-tools, July 19, 2007
115. From Notepad to Personal Wiki, June 7, 2006
112. Cognitive tools and workpieces, April 13, 2006
102. Conceptual Data Structures for PKM, December 19, 2005
68. Paper usage habits, March 13, 2005 [4]
60. Note-taking without mouse, February 5, 2005
38. Knowledge Worker connotations, September 25, 2004
16. Indo-Europeans were more Multimedial than we, August 28, 2004
12. Virtual pointer stick, August 28, 2004

13 Stand-in, Expand & Collapse, Shortcuts

A unique affordance of digital tools is the ease of opening and closing large context areas; it allows an extended awareness of the hidden stuff, including both subordinate details and related ‘see also’ topics.

438. Collapsing, August 29, 2021
437. Limit case, August 27, 2021
357. Zooming is overrated, April 01, 2018
107. IE7 and me, February 2, 2006
97. The joys of not clicking links, November 1, 2005
95. Expanding/collapsing symbols, October 9, 2005
94. Fear of the categorical scheme, September 30, 2005
69. Desktop usage habits, March 13, 2005 [4]
50. Personal categorization, December 15, 2004
42. Information scent of a hyperlink, October 11, 2004
23. The Benefit of Not Yet Followed links, August 30, 2004

14 Link types and modalities

Navigation in a hypertext must provide a persistent awareness of whether a link is of the hierarchical type or of the cross references type; then it can support any conceptual connections of all three modalities: virtual (hidden), verbal, and visual.

490. Another distillation approach, July 02, 2023
402. Zettelkasten visualized, June 21, 2019
337. Magic of Zettelkasten, December 01, 2016
136. Think-Tools for Connective Knowledge (2), January 21, 2007 [4]
135. Think-Tools for Connective Knowledge, January 13, 2007
104. Network of tags and citations, January 4, 2006
26. More on link figuration, August 28, 2004
22. Differences between text and hypertext, August 28, 2004
18. Encyclopedestrianization, August 28, 2004
08. Gripes about links in a paper dictionary, August 28, 2004
06. Gripes about CD encyclopaedias, August 28, 2004
04. Verb and gender in multimedia grammar, August 28, 2004
02. Hypertext’s fascinating potential: bridging camps, August 28, 2004

15 Gradual and rearranging

It’s a mundane truism that the revising and rearranging necessary for a gradual evolution of a thought, is greatly facilitated by digital tools; in particular, connector lines between virtual post-it notes would stay connected.

401. April 7, 1959, April 06, 2019
327. Physical overhead of Mindmapping, March 04, 2016 [2, 4]
276. Shishi Odoshi, or Emergence vs. Threshold, December 9, 2012
257. #change11 Slow Learning Visualized, December 5, 2011
222. Auto arrange vs. visual thinking, May 22, 2010
203. Blog Carnival: Effectivity, January 24, 2009
167. Mindmaps and rearranging, June 10, 2008
89. Visualizations that relieve a constraint, August 27, 2005
73. Personal reflection, April 2, 2005
70. Radial, incremental, revisable, March 18, 2005
58. Blogger Kleist?, January 28, 2005
54. PKM dimensions, January 14, 2005
28. Easier Studying, August 28, 2004

16 Subtle differences

If tools don’t just focus on output but truly facilitate the user’s interaction with their thoughts, there are many small differences that have a big effect; e.g. how easy it is to place ‘floating’ items on a mind map, or how flexibly the rigid structure of pages and linearity can be overcome.

488. Edge’s Split Screen, June 04, 2023
407. Top ten tools, August 30, 2019 [3]
345. Small differences, September 16, 2017
322. New: Read Mode for my Tool, July 02, 2015
213. Tomorrow’s mind mapping, September 4, 2009 [4]
210. Visualization tools again, May 21, 2009
177. CCK08 Cmaps vs. Mindmaps, September 25, 2008 [1]
158. Knowledge Roads, December 23, 2007
155. PIM Tools and Connectors, November 10, 2007 [4]
153. Clogged hierarchy in Vista, September 20, 2007 [4]
138. Straight or curved lines?, February 5, 2007
125. Folder Marker, September 7, 2006
83. Think-Tool, June 21, 2005

17 Tool choice & Workflows

For the precious small notes that don’t fit into the project-related folders of the Operating System, the biggest challenge is how to combine context and details; so the tool must be adaptable to overcome the page paradigm.

485. My test flight with Github Copilot, April 20, 2023 [5]
476. Minimal GitHub for reassurance, August 26, 2022
474. Pruning for Output, July 13, 2022
441. Reclaim filing, September 22, 2021 [4]
435. Commonplace Book, July 05, 2021
419. Large maps, June 23, 2020
418. Sense-making workflow, April 20, 2020 [4]
416. Notes workflow, February 25, 2020 [4]
396. Augmenting human intellect, March 08, 2019 [3, 5]
383. More gRSShopper (2), December 21, 2018
373. #EL30 Technical: How I created my task, November 09, 2018
365. More gRSShopper, October 12, 2018
362. Exploring gRSShopper, September 07, 2018
333. Im-/Export from/to other think tools, May 26, 2016 [4]
326. Clearing out, February 19, 2016
308. Think Tools, July 24, 2014
281. Why not cMap or PersonalBrain?, June 6, 2013
280. Why I like my tool, May 20, 2013 [4]
152. Top 10 Tools, August 11, 2007
150. Tool selection, July 19, 2007 [4]
141. Studying made easier, March 18, 2007 [4]
127. Why people don’t use collaboration tools?, September 22, 2006
116. Personal Wiki Migration Results, June 17, 2006
103. One think tool or many?, December 29, 2005
92. Detours in desktop applications, September 24, 2005

18 Markup & Annotation

Further processing of a text page still seems not worth much consideration; this affects text markup for readability and structured exporting, and linking highlighted text to annotations.

432. Annotation. 2021, May 19, 2021
431. Annotation interactivity, May 18, 2021
166. Reusing paper resources online?, April 28, 2008
161. Text Markup – Literacy or Arts ?, March 19, 2008
160. Markup for Write-Only Papers, February 27, 2008 [4]
131. Why are underlines so underused?, November 3, 2006 [4]
85. Stepchild Annotation, June 26, 2005
66. My unsufficient cognitive tools, March 11, 2005

19 Decentralized

Desirable decentralization pertains to many areas and levels, not only to platform servers, and in a wider sense even to templates and both outer and inner autonomy; meanwhile, directory information remains a problem.

439. Decentralized, Part 2, September 07, 2021
428. Decentralized, April 07, 2021
427. Indieweb frustrations, February 12, 2021 [3]
367. #EL30 A lot to decentralize, October 19, 2018 [3]

21 Narrow contexts, trees, pigeonholing, linearity

In areas as diverse as application controls, cycle path signposting, web pages, diagrams, prepositions, dictionaries, file folders, or curriculums, the categorization and sequencing of information reveals how differently people expect and prefer it, and how differently they arrange it and claim a natural order for it — most notably it reveals whether they prefer a narrow context or a wider context.

405. Categories for Sorting, August 23, 2019 [3]
316. Prepositions and the Funnel, January 10, 2015 [2]
301. Hostile Acquisition, March 28, 2014
277. Linear, January 30, 2013
241. #PLENK2010 Connectivist PKM environments, November 3, 2010
170. Visual Thinking, August 26, 2008
121. More narrow contexts, August 9, 2006
119. Office to give up right-brainers?, July 5, 2006
117. Cognitive Burden of Tools?, July 4, 2006
101. Topic hierarchies and Sycophants, December 17, 2005
96. Aggregators and topics and context, October 23, 2005
87. Navigation problems, on websites and bikeways, August 13, 2005
64. Tree structures with creative appeal, March 5, 2005
36. Nonlinear New student, September 19, 2004
20. Tree-ifying another encyclopaedia, August 28, 2004
14. Funnel language, August 28, 2004
10. Tree-ifying a dictionary, August 28, 2004

22 Styles and abilities

Differences in doing cognitive work are often attributed to abilities and personality styles, neglecting the cognitive preferences that people have about the world, how they want it to function, and often this is not even a matter of its values but simply of its structure to be understood.

469. Seven ways to …, April 8, 2022
404. More online meetings, less short-distance flights, July 25, 2019 [3, 4]
395. Agile book sprint, January 29, 2019 [3]
344. Mental flexors and extensors, September 07, 2017 [3]
332. Unflattening, April 15, 2016 [2]
199. Daily or Bulky?, December 15, 2008
176. CCK08 Conceptual and other network layers, September 23, 2008 [1]
157. Procrastinators and Small Steps?, December 3, 2007
132. Multi-tasking, multi-threading, multi-thinking, November 21, 2006
124. To know ourselves and those around us, August 27, 2006
118. Cognitive Styles theories, July 5, 2006
86. Differential PKM-Psychology, August 4, 2005
44. Cognitive one-dish meals?, November 6, 2004
34. Preferences, September 11, 2004

23 Learning styles

The claim that science had proved the existence of learning styles is certainly false, but that does not mean they are DISproved but as yet merely UNproved, at least by studies going beyond the notorious recall and short-term retention effects, and beyond the simplistic visual/ auditory/ kinaesthetic split.

217. Teachers aware of their own Learning Styles, December 27, 2009
207. Experts vs. Creativity, April 9, 2009 [4]
201. Leveraging differences, January 10, 2009
148. Learning styles called rubbish, July 2, 2007

24 User Interface preferences

Many options of user interfaces and think tools make just one kind of users happy, and an ideal version for everyone does not exist — in particular if the system behaves like an independent patronizing actor who provides automatic solutions like a prosthesis instead of a tool.

475. Conversations with tools, August 13, 2022 [5]
421. Service interface, August 07, 2020 [3, 5]
414. Snake oil serendipity?, February 09, 2020 [3, 4]
413. Automagical links?, January 17, 2020 [3, 4]
412. Inspiring or distracting?, December 11, 2019 [3, 4]
371. #EL30 Week 3: Plumbing?, November 06, 2018 [3]
369. #EL30 Week 1 From documents to data, October 27, 2018 [3]
146. Usability 2.0 again, May 26, 2007
140. Usability and Mass Market, March 4, 2007
130. Software should take sides, October 29, 2006
122. Users and styles, August 10, 2006
114. RSS reader usability for everyone?, May 15, 2006
105. Usability 2.0 ?, January 14, 2006
84. Tabs and Styles Inventory, June 25, 2005

26 Visual thinking and Sense of place

Since ‘Our Sense of Vision Trumps All Others’ (Anderson & Fast), examples of visualization are extra numerous and rich; a particular strength is how they can show relationships by connector lines or proximity.

459. No fear of entangled links, December 05, 2021 [4]
454. #ethics21 Mapping, November 13, 2021
446. #ethics21 (Technical:) Graph, October 24, 2021
420. Intelligent textbooks, rejected, June 25, 2020 [4]
417. Remote work (updated), March 06, 2020
409. Traversing a network, November 01, 2019
372. #EL30 Graph task, November 09, 2018
297. Space and elegance, February 15, 2014
274. Replacement for think tool needed, August 31, 2012
227. Recognizing the network, August 21, 2010
221. “Ligne claire” for instructional comics, April 16, 2010
220. Overview or just another slide transition effect, February 17, 2010
206. What can visuals do, February 20, 2009
204. Credible visualizations, February 6, 2009
190a. Tool for spatial visualizers, November 6, 2008
151. Synchronisation habits, August 11, 2007 [4]
133. Mistaken Bring-to-me Paradigm in IE7, December 16, 2006 [4]
108. How to explain illustrations?, February 7, 2006
106. 3D sense of orientation, January 30, 2006
100. Visual cognitive styles, December 15, 2005
24. Intra-Textual Links, August 28, 2004

28 Asynchronous & literal, blogs & forums

A big opportunity of digitalization is the improved asynchronous exchange, but the preference for the synchronous and the oral extends even to forums which can be seen as more synchronous than blogs.

424. Stubborn school administrations, November 30, 2020 [3]
423. Reading in the Digital Age, September 13, 2020 [3]
312. Forums analytics, November 07, 2014
253. #change11 Moodle Forum or gRSShopper, October 28, 2011
243. #PLENK2010 Asynchronous Participation, November 21, 2010
216. Web 2.0 for Teaching, December 19, 2009
209. Blog vs. forum preferences, May 1, 2009
175. CCK08 – Week 2 and forums, September 21, 2008 [1]
128. The Zoo of collaboration/ personal productivity tools, October 1, 2006
110. Acronyms and blog names, March 11, 2006
109. Active Contribution and Pattern Recognition, March 2, 2006
81. Literacy and “orality” of maps, June 5, 2005
79. Trendspotter’s literacy prediction, May 26, 2005
77. Presentations potential, May 7, 2005
75. Discussion styles, April 25, 2005
74. Teaching vs. canned texts, April 14, 2005
71. Urge people to blog?, March 25, 2005

29 Abstractions & Arborescence

Abstract thinking is well-respected because it seems to be more difficult to isolate ideas, but it also means ‘drawn away’ from reality, context, and relationships, and wrapping and nesting them into hierarchical trees will just increase the problems.

356. Time: Back or forward?, March 25, 2018
324. Synesthesia, August 04, 2015 [2]
318. Off the Pedestal, April 06, 2015 [2]
294. D & G and Connectivism, January 25, 2014 [2]
288. Wrapping and grasping, November 24, 2013 [2]
278. Abstractions, March 6, 2013 [2]
273. Labels vs. Concepts, June 17, 2012

41 Knowledge & Mind

Personal knowledge is not just a slice of the body of the public knowledge, its facts and its propositions, to spare oneself a lookup, but rather, it is the recognition of relationships and partial patterns, emerging from experience and gradually strengthening connections.

484. Imagination and understanding, March 26, 2023 [5]
478. Visualizing the “shoulders”, October 26, 2022
359. Guesses about wisdom, May 06, 2018 [3]
354. Expectations make the difference, December 19, 2017 [3]
349. Working memory, October 22, 2017 [3]
335. Sequential requirements, July 04, 2016 [3]
320. The Specialist and the Map, April 19, 2015 [2]
299. Homunculus vs. Emissary, March 20, 2014 [2]
295. Metonymies and literalism, February 9, 2014 [2]
263. #change11 Community vs. Artefacts, February 28, 2012
260. #change11 Lower layers of connectivism?, January 10, 2012
242. #PLENK2010 Growing knowledge with PIM, November 4, 2010
235. #PLENK2010 WebX connected knowledge = Connective knowledge?, September 28, 2010
174. [CCK08] Definitions, September 17, 2008 [1]
169. My take on Connectivism, August 11, 2008 [1]
90. Making knowledge, September 12, 2005
67. Data, Information, Knowledge, March 12, 2005

42 Concepts & Metaphors

If concepts are seen as isolated/ atomic representations that can be computationally manipulated, a lot of meaning is missed, which might rather be found in whole sets of connectors drawn between different words’ senses.

467. Bates vs. Downes, March 1, 2022
323. Anthropomorphic misdirection, July 19, 2015 [2]
321. Spatial word roots are most prolific, June 30, 2015 [2]
305. Conceptual Connections, once again, April 25, 2015
303. Algorithms and Meaning, April 18, 2014
300. Atomic concepts?, March 25, 2014
285. Wordmap, October 15, 2013
283. Raft of Concepts, August 27, 2013
272. Conceptual layer, again, May 31, 2012
270. Connections “beyond” concepts?, May 28, 2012
198. Tilted Taxonomy, December 7, 2008
143. Concepts not nodes, April 22, 2007
93. Concepts of concepts, September 25, 2005

43 Tags, Terms, Depth

Experts’ insistence on depth instead of breadth, and professional cataloguing instead of crowd tagging, might be accommodated as follows: some exemplary depth is necessary, and for new emerging topics, some early tagging is necessary.

470. Curating my blog archive, May 08, 2022
408. Depth, once again, October 27, 2019
398. #OpenLearning19 Pre-Week, March 17, 2019
259. Repurpose, December 22, 2011
249. Orientation and “experts”, April 23, 2011
239. #PLENK2010 Connectivist Folder Window, October 27, 2010
238. #PLENK2010 Picking from Breadth, for Depth, October 20, 2010
214. Core knowledge, September 19, 2009
113. Apprenticeship in finding search words, May 4, 2006
98. Perceptions of the Library in Web 2.0, November 16, 2005
91. Cost of tagging in post-search world, September 18, 2005
82. Categorized RSS Syndication of Uni Publications, June 11, 2005
52. Folksonomies debate, January 8, 2005

44 Connectivism

‘[M]eaning, both socially and neurally, have the same origin: meaning is an emergent phenomenon, arising from the connections between underlying entities.’ and ‘impulses in the network ebb and flow’ (Downes in Foundations)

466. Connectivism, February 13, 2022
461. #ethics21 Week 8, December 08, 2021 [5]
410. Foundations, November 11, 2019 [3]
339. Week 1 of new cMOOC, January 30, 2017 [3]
331. Wish list, April 09, 2016
307. Visualizing my understanding of connectivism, May 01, 2014
284. Connectivism must abandon its ideas?, October 3, 2013 [2]
279. Connectivist Think Tool, May 17, 2013
269. My favorite sections in Downes’ new book, May 23, 2012
267. Wealth of articles, May 10, 2012
246. #CCK11 What Makes Connectivism Unique?, February 11, 2011
236. #PLENK2010: Proliferation of Learning Theories, October 8, 2010
195. CCK08 Final presentation, November 24, 2008
193. CCK08 Conceptual and Social layer, November 23, 2008 [1]
192. CCK08 Paper #3 Opportunities and Resistance, November 15, 2008 [1]
189a. CCK08 Paper #2: What could be, November 1, 2008 [1]
179. CCK08 My position on Connectivism, October 2, 2008 [1]
178. CCK08 Week 3 Leftover: The Three Layers, October 2, 2008
173. [CCK08] Is it a theory or not, September 11, 2008 [1]

45 MOOCs, Openness, Diversity

The openness of a cMOOC creates and requires a different, more independent, form of participation, learning to pick from the abundance, and the benefit is more diverse insight.

465. Diversity vs. divergent, January 10, 2022
443. #ethics21 Introducing myself, October 09, 2021
379. #EL30 Week 7: This class, December 08, 2018
378. #EL30 Week 7: Response to proposals, December 06, 2018
350. Finding or creating OERs, October 23, 2017
348. ‘Text’-book ?, October 17, 2017
347. The trap of copyright, October 11, 2017
311. D(u)alMOOC, October 24, 2014
296. MOOC community?, February 13, 2014
275. Think Know Tools, November 28, 2012 [4]
268. #change11 Openness vs. openness, May 15, 2012
266. #change11 Hidden in public, May 7, 2012
264. #change11 Definitory Power on MOOCs, March 5, 2012
261. #change11 Open Space Binary Participants?, January 21, 2012
256. #change11 Decreasing Engagement in MOOCs, November 27, 2011
255. #change11 Abundance for Diversity and Breadth, November 17, 2011
254. #change11 Massiveness and Diversity, October 31, 2011
247. #CCK11 Drop-Out Lurking Experience, April 6, 2011
228. Is openness addictive?, August 31, 2010
197. CCK08 More wrap-up, December 2, 2008 [1]
191. CCK08: Week 10, Openness, November 13, 2008
172. [CCK08] First impressions, September 6, 2008 [1]

47 Recognizing

Recognizing is done by one of two ways of attending: not by the one that fixes, fragments and isolates, but by the other that perceives a whole from a multipoint experience of small subsymbolic features of a pattern; it needs just some of the features to see the whole pattern.

455. #ethics21 Week 6 thoughts, November 22, 2021 [5]
353. Consciousness, November 21, 2017
336. New page: Recognizing, August 16, 2016
315. Recognition, December 23, 2014 [2]
310. Constructivist Ship In A Bottle, September 25, 2014 [2]
304. Cmap’s Fault, April 23, 2014 [2]

51 Complexity & change

Preparing students for a complex world, would require more change towards more independent working, i.e. similar to research, but teaching should not be the unloved sibling of research, and edutech needs to advance beyond emulating paper.

493. Gold Rush, August 26, 2023
489. The Possible, June 09, 2023
482. Visualizing Complexity, February 05, 2023
468. Figure it out, March 25, 2022
293. Rhizomatic weapons? No thanks., January 18, 2014
292. Rules or patterns?, January 16, 2014
289. Rhizome, January 4, 2014
258. Learning as By-Product, December 16, 2011 [2]
252. #change11 Change from within, October 17, 2011
185. CCK08 Week 6 Fallacy?, October 18, 2008 [1]
168. Horseless carriage, August 2, 2008 [4]
165. Opinions on higher education pedagogy, April 20, 2008
154. Messy teaching, October 3, 2007
139. Rules or patterns, February 13, 2007
129. Research and Emptiness, October 19, 2006

52 Research, Evaluation

Public trust in scientists and science is less than desirable, perhaps due to collaboration and communication methods that are less open than desirable.

497. Distraction and Denial, October 12, 2023 [5]
492. Scraping from Everyone, July 15, 2023
464. Science Denial, January 4, 2022
415. Gaps, February 20, 2020 [3]
360. Cmaps and the “Split Attention Effect”, June 23, 2018
358. Myths, semi-myths etc., April 29, 2018
351. What counts as effectiveness?, November 02, 2017 [3]
328. First approximation?, March 07, 2016 [2]
265. #change11 Scholars’ network, group, and personal practices, May 2, 2012
237. #PLENK2010 Assessment as Proxy, October 14, 2010
218. Peer review before or after publication, February 3, 2010
196. CCK08 Week 12: Research, Evaluation, November 27, 2008 [1]
190. CCK08 Meta notes, November 3, 2008
188. CCK08 Week 8: Validity, November 1, 2008 [1]
137. Science Blogging, January 21, 2007
126. Methodological Monoculture, September 21, 2006
40. Evaluation Metadata, September 30, 2004

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)

433. Ungrading, my take, June 20, 2021
430. Purpose, April 19, 2021
429. Distant Associations, April 12, 2021
411. Dependence, November 29, 2019 [3, 5]
384. What is Digital Literacy?, January 08, 2019 [3, 4]
363. Depolarization, October 05, 2018
355. Trust, February 24, 2018 [3]
352. Reflecting or objectives?, November 06, 2017 [3]
330. #NRC01PL Choice and Agency, April 01, 2016 [3]
262. #cck12 Crap Detector Exercise?, February 3, 2012
226. CritLit2010 Traversing or jumping (2), June 29, 2010
224. CritLit2010 Traversing or jumping, June 25, 2010
223. CritLit2010: Filtering the truth and more, June 18, 2010
202. Confusion or critical thinking, January 18, 2009
186. CCK08 Instructional design and Humboldt, October 20, 2008 [1]
183. CCK08 Week 5 Reflections?, October 8, 2008
156. Canned and to the point?, November 19, 2007
32. Content Repositories und Social Software, September 6, 2004

54 Picking, E-Resonance

Picking from the information abundance is an art, particularly from a linear stream; and it is easier when we pay attention to an author’s ‘voice’ and if something resonates with us.

406. Fear of clicking, August 28, 2019 [3]
319. Fedwiki Happening, April 07, 2015
313. Very satisfied with DALMOOC, December 16, 2014
231. The Riddle of Online Resonance, September 14, 2010
229. E-Resonance, September 10, 2010
211. Skimming too quickly?, July 26, 2009
164. All You Can Eat, April 14, 2008
147. Tabloid, June 17, 2007
76. Info consumption styles, April 26, 2005

55 Social connectedness, Blogging

When social media started out with blogging, it was a unique blend of push and pull and of the thematic and the personal, which may be hardly imaginable for someone who only knows today’s streams.

498. Interface with reply-buttons, November 06, 2023
479. Twitter Exit, December 13, 2022
425. Visualizing my Twitter network, December 05, 2020
400. #OpenLearning19 Required Blogging?, March 31, 2019
366. #el30 Technical: Feeds Import, October 12, 2018
342. Polarization and Push or Pull, July 11, 2017 [3]
329. #NRC01PL Minimal PLE ingredients, March 15. 2016 [3]
287. Reusing Scholarly Data, October 22, 2013
219. Comment culture, February 14, 2010
134. New Blog Server, January 13, 2007
123. Selling blogs to the non-believers?, August 26, 2006
111. Meta-data and person to person connections, March 19, 2006
99. Connective Writing and Anti-social Reading, November 28, 2005
78. Blog statistics, May 26, 2005
63. Not urgent but important, February 26, 2005
56. Blogging as pinball, January 23, 2005
48. Trackback to the future?, December 5, 2004

56 Creativity, Identity, Subjectivity

While artificial intelligence may be able to satisfy our desire for creative novelty against boredom by applying combinatorics, the distinctive human subjectiveness and uniqueness is based on identities that cannot totally be cloned.

496. Trust human ‘systems’ ?, September 17, 2023 [5]
487. Who educates Emile the Bot, May 05, 2023
483. Distinctively human, now, March 10, 2023 [5]
434. Seeming rip-off, July 04, 2021
382. #EL30 Week 8: Creative Experience, December 17, 2018 [3]
380. #EL30 Week 8: The invisible, December 10, 2018 [3]
375. #EL30 Week 4 Identity graph, 1st attempt, November 14, 2018
374. #EL30 Week 4: The same, November 13, 2018 [3]
341. Distinctively human?, June 22, 2017 [3]

57 Outboard Brain, Semantic Web, AI

The prospect of AI has significantly grown, and the scariest is whether robots will be undistinguishable from humans, and if they will become a prosthesis or a tool and co-worker and mind extension.

494. Ontology attempt, August 27, 2023
486. Polarizing topic AI, April 28, 2023 [5]
481. Technically confirmed authorship?, January 10, 2023
480. No prediction, December 28, 2022 [5]
472. Cognition at scale, June 17, 2022 [5]
462. #ethics21 Module 7, more, December 18, 2021
460. #ethics21 Faked teachers?, December 08, 2021
447. #ethics21 Week 3 tasks, October 27, 2021
445. #ethics21 Week 2 Curiosity, October 17, 2021 [5]
436. The Extended Mind, July 08, 2021
426. Predictions, December 31, 2020 [3, 5]
403. Invisibility and cognition, July 22, 2019 [3]
377. #EL30 Week 6: Automated Assessments, November 29, 2018 [3]
368. #EL30 Alien Intelligence AI, October 24, 2018 [3, 5]
361. Blog parade “AI for Common Welfare?”, August 01, 2018 [3, 5]
225. Contiguity and Outboard Brain, June 25, 2010
215. Scrapers and Irregularities, November 23, 2009
187. CCK08: IT in a 1961 classroom, October 20, 2008
184. CCK08 Internet over-emphasized, October 13, 2008 [1]
144. Tool rather than wizard, April 30, 2007
142. RDF humanized, April 1, 2007
62. Subject Trees, February 16, 2005

58 Tech and MOOC tech

The history of IT and Edu Tech is not about the empowerment that would technically be available, and it is amazing how a mulish ignorance persistently keeps back some simple powerful technologies, e.g. innovative mapping, or even OPML.

495. AI as countervailing, September 07, 2023 [5]
477. Future, September 22, 2022
473. Edtech weariness?, July 07, 2022 [5]
471. Make it Meaningful, June 13, 2022
440. Teaching Machines, September 12, 2021
422. Didactic sliders, August 29, 2020
376. #EL30 Two tasks, November 22, 2018
364. #el30 Technical: Week minus one, October 09, 2018
314. Good and bad news from Cmap, December 20, 2014
302. Digital Humanities Workshop, April 03, 2014
291. #rhizo14 OPML Feedlist, January 12, 2014
286. Windows 8.1, a nasty surprise, October 19, 2013
282. Between Empowerment and Patronization: 40 Years IT, June 21, 2013 [3, 4]
250. #change11 Warm-up Week Testing, September 11, 2011
245. #CCK11 OPML file breakaway, January 21, 2011
244. #CCK11 Importing the feed list into my own RSS reader, January 16, 2011
240. #PLENK2010 Too many tools?, October 30, 2010
212. Enchanted by the tools, August 30, 2009
205. Microblogging is not for me, February 14, 2009
180. CCK08 Week 4 History of Social Web, October 3, 2008
163. The Net Generation, March 28, 2008

59 More on PLEs and Personal Productivity

More important for personal productivity than hunting for ever newer shiny apps, is a bit of thinking about one’s own workflow, avoiding mass, sailing around bad usability, not expecting too much from collaboration tools, and perhaps using more maps.

448. Windows 11 spook finished for me, October 31, 2021
343. Tools vs. practice, August 11, 2017
340. Seven habits of…, June 14, 2017 [4]
317. Fedwiki Hospitable Editing, February 20, 2015
248. #CCK11 Connectivist Forums Browser?, April 9, 2011
234. Cogged PLE’s, September 25, 2010
233. #PLENK2010 PLE vs. LMS, September 25, 2010
232. #PLENK2010 Pictures of PLN vs. PLE, September 18, 2010
200. Annual repository cleanup, January 8, 2009 [4]
182. Address bar usability, October 5, 2008
162. The “43 KM definitions” as Topicmap Demo, March 21, 2008
145. Can I break something?, May 13, 2007 [4]
120. PKM text translated, July 17, 2006
88. Deepa Mehta (2), August 22, 2005
80. How to abstain from saving too much, May 30, 2005 [4]
72. Less is more, April 2, 2005
46. Visualization techniques, big and small, November 21, 2004
30. Usability and Translation, August 28, 2004

60 Ethics

If one’s personal ethics suggests not to abuse their privileges, those being better cheaters should stop gaslighting and their ‘war on stupid people’, and approach the vulnerable with an ethics of care (which is learned and known by connectivist ripple effects and recognition).

463. Summary of my course blogposts, December 22, 2021 [5]
458. #ethics21 Week 7 Takeaways, December 04, 2021 [5]
457. #ethics21 More Week 6 thoughts, November 29, 2021 [5]
456. #ethics21 Personal or not, November 26, 2021
453. #ethics21 Week 5, November 12, 2021
451. #ethics21 Week 4: many concepts, November 07, 2021
450. #ethics21 Week 4, more, November 03, 2021 [5]
449. #ethics21 Week 4, Codes, November 02, 2021
444. #ethics21 Week 1 Task, October 14, 2021 [5]

99 Other

452. #ethics21 Undistributed posts reference, November 08, 2021
442. #ethics21 Hello, October 04, 2021
397. #OpenLearning19 test post, March 14, 2019
346. OpenEdMOOC Test, October 01, 2017
338. Lighthearted Exercise, December 30, 2016
309. Blog turns 10, August 24, 2014
298. Rhizo14: Thanks, February 24, 2014
290. #rhizo14 Introduction, January 11, 2014
271. Change11 feed closed, May 30, 2012
251. Comments recovered, September 15, 2011
230. #PLENK2010 Introduction, September 12, 2010
208. Email anniversary, April 16, 2009
202a. CCK08 feed closed, January 24, 2009
194. CCK08 Final Cmap, November 23, 2008
189. CCK08 Current Cmap, November 1, 2008
181. CCK08 Cmap, October 3, 2008
171. [CCK08] Introducing myself, September 5, 2008

Contents

11 Immediacy