Help

I wanted to see what words are prominent in my evolving blog today versus a couple of weeks back when I added my blog url into Wordle, to create a picture.  Here's what I got:

I think it's interesting that the word "help" was prominent.  Being helpful and helpful people have been themes to me this summer as I strive to get it all done in a demanding and rigorous summer program.  I have been going out of my way to help others in my program and in my daily life, as I realize how much help I need and receive to be the best teacher and person I can be.  Collaboration is what it's all about!

Rick Baraniuk and The Knowledge Ecosystem

I showed a short clip of this Ted Talk in class the other day to help introduce the Connexions site Rick Baraniuk founded many digital moons ago in a galaxy far far away.  Watch it!  It's worth your time.

Question for when you finish watching the video:  How can educators help students become their own 'educational DJs'?  What might this look like?  Are you ready for it?  Are they?

Curtis J. Bonk and "The Open Education Movement"

Questions for Bonk:

1. In the prequel to the Summer 2011 paperback edition of The World is Open, you discuss "convergent thinking software packages" you used with your students during "The Second Wave of Technology: Enhancing Learning."  Can you tell us more about how, specifically, and in what learning contexts the software "enhanced logical thinking, problem solving, hypothesis testing, classification skills, deductive reasoning, and making inferences"?

2. Can you explain what you mean by the following quote from your Forward to the Chines edition of The World is Open?   Specifically, HOW and WHY might education take center stage in human evolution and what that might mean/look like for economics and politics?

Favorite Quote (from prequel to the Summer 2011 paperback edition of The World is Open):

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